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BASEMENT BOX 67.0211

Description: Photograph taken at night of a firefighter standing next to a burning building. Caption: "This is what Blackwell firemen found when they arrived at the scene of the disastrous fire here Saturday night"
Date: April 6, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0206

Description: Photograph of buildings engulfed in a fiery blaze. People stand nearby apparently attempting to manage the fire. Caption: "The storage house and elevator equipment was destroyed"
Date: January 15, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0079

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of grain elevators in a blaze of fire and black smoke. Caption: "Fire Thursday did $100,000 damage to the elevator of the Blackwell Mill and Elevator Co. in Blackwell."
Date: January 26, 1940
Creator: Teter, Cloyd
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0209

Description: Photograph taken at night of crowd watching as firefighters work to extinguish a burning building. building burns. Caption: "Fire at its height in the Oklahoma Tire and Supply building before it spread to the Security Bank Building"
Date: April 6, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0207

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of building wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Giant cranes collapse the wall around Blackwell's Security Bank building which was ruined by Saturday night's fire"
Date: April 6, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0783]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Blackwell youth soon will be using the imposing entrance to this building to enjoy swimming, wading and diving in the Kay county city's memorial pools to dead of World wars I and II."
Date: October 25, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0746]

Description: Caption: "The 122-foot, 100-ton chimney of the Hazel-Atlas Glass company plant here topples to the ground as workmen continue cleanup of a two-block area on which the plant was located in Blackwell before the May 25 tornado unroofed the building and the properties caught fire."
Date: 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0740]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After the Blackwell smelter closed, the land was cleared and though trust financing, several new industries were enticed to move in, Hiring those workers idled by the smelter closing."
Date: 1980
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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