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BASEMENT BOX 67.0588

Description: Photograph taken at night of a brick building on fire. Caption: "Flames leaped high into the air Sunday as firemen battled to save Wilburton Milling Co. at Wilburton ."
Date: November 14, 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0589

Description: Photograph taken at night of a building on fire. Caption: "A $450,000 blaze swept through Wilburton's grade school, also damaging the high school building and gymnasium late Thursday."
Date: January 10, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Choctaw Execution of Silan Lewis

Description: Photograph of the execution of Choctaw Silan Lewis in Wilburton, I.T. Wilburton was at the time in Gaines County in the Choctaw Nation (now Latimer County). The execution took place on November 5, 1894. Sheriff Lyman Pusley executed Lewis with his rifle. Lewis was convicted of killing Joe Hoklotubbe.
Date: November 5, 1894
Creator: Frank Raymond
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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