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BASEMENT BOX 67.0213

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a young man kneeling near debris. A crowd stands in the background. Caption: "Because Johnny Steward went on a possum hunt, he is alive today."
Date: January 10, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0215

Description: Photograph of two men moving charred remains of a person into the back of an ambulance. Caption: "The remains of Mrs. Booker T. Gardner who died in Boswell fire with her 10 children and others"
Date: January 10, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0214

Description: Photograph of two men lifting the body of a person burned beyond recognition in a fire. Caption: "They lift the body of a child believed to be 8 to 10 years of age---at Boswell fires"
Date: January 10, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0212

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of people standing near structural wreckage and an ambulance. Caption: "An ambulance is backed up waiting to take the last of the victims from the Thursday morning fire that claimed 16 lives"
Date: January 10, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0216]

Description: A daylight photograph of the charred remains of a tragic multi-fatality house fire in Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Searing tragedy blazed out of the darkness here early Thursday morning as fire swept through a four room frame house burning 16 persons to death"
Date: January 8, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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