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[2012.201.B0052.0181]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Grim reminder to motorists is this mock crash scene assembled on the center strip of Bethany' s Main street by Boy Scouts of troop No. 70, Bethany. The exhibit went up prior to the Memorial day weekend and will remain another few days, scoutmaster Jerry Talmadge said, Scouts have a national highway safety theme this year." The photograph is of a wrecked car with the driver's side door open to display the dishef… more
Date: June 3, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0317.0366]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing a suit and tie, leaned over a table piled with stacks of paper. He is looking down smiling. Caption: "Helping tabulate information on piles of YMCA junior baseball questionnaires"
Date: January 20, 1958
Creator: Gumm, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0024

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of charred wreckage after a structural fire. Caption: "This was the scene of desolation after the disastrous fire last year."
Date: November 27, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0031

Description: Photograph of a firefighter's helmet and fire arms laying on a charred, wet table. Caption: "And a water splashed fireman's helmet symbolically marks the tragic Thanksgiving Day fire that took the lives of five children at the Warr Acres convalescent home for handicapped children."
Date: November 27, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0045]

Description: Photograph is of a industrial refinery that has a large dark plume of smoke rising from the background. Caption: "An estimated $100,000 damage resulted from a series of explosions and fire Tuesday night at the Ben Franklin Oil Co. refinery north of here."
Date: April 16, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0046]

Description: Photograph of a broken down gasoline truck, surrounded by large cylinders and broken chunks of concrete. One man stands next to the truck, facing two other men near the center of the photograph. Caption: "In the picture at the right is the scorched remains of the gasoline transport truck in which the fire started."
Date: July 12, 1950
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0047]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the burning wreckage of oil-filled tank cars after a railroad derailment and explosion at Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0049]

Description: Photograph is of twisted metal with train cars wrecked, smashed, and still smoking in the background. A small group of people are surveying the damage near the pile of wrecked train cars. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0050]

Description: A daylight photograph showing damage at the Shattuck Grain Company elevator in Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. The damage was caused by explosions after a train derailment involving oil-filled tank cars. Caption: "The wreck occurred near the elevator of the Shattuck Grain Co. shown in one photograph."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0051]

Description: Photograph is of the oval cylinder metal hauling container for gasoline in the front yard of a small wooden structure home. the tank is black and still smoking from a fire. Caption: "a holiday in Shattuck early Tuesday morning when a Santa Fe Freight train hauling propane and gasoline derailed and exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0053]

Description: A daylight photograph of fiery single-vehicle accident involving a Liebhart LP (butane) Gas Company truck near Enid in Garfield County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Traffic stopped on U.S. 69 near Enid when this butane truck overturned and burned."
Date: July 28, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0055]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the burning, twisted wreckage of oil-filled railroad tank cars after a derailment and explosion at Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0056]

Description: Photograph is of a wooden building where part of the roof has collapsed. Heavy dark smoke is rising behind the structure. Two men are on a electrical poll near where the smoke is rising.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0057]

Description: A daylight photograph showing smoking, twisted debris after oil-filled railroad tank cars derailed and exploded near the grain elevator in Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0058]

Description: A daylight photograph of a railroad tank car wrapped in debris caused by the derailment and explosion of oil-filled tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0059]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a freight train derailment at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. The wreck caused several gas filled tank cars to explode, resulting in damage to the community. Caption: "A broken coupling device on a 142-car freight train was blamed late Tuesday for a spectacular derailment which piled up 31 gas filled tank cars and touched off a series of explosions that rattled this Ellis County community with six damaging shock waves."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0147]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman standing in the center of where a building once stood and is now reduced to twisted, smoking metal and brick. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Smoking rubble is all that remains after a $50,000 fire leveled the Randall Sharpe Contracting Co. warehouse, shop and offices 2 1/2 miles north of Britton Tuesday afternoon."
Date: January 7, 1958
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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