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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5917]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Pointed in the opposite direction from the takeoff, the tail assembly of a B-29 Superfortress which crashed at Tinker Field late Monday came to rest in the middle of a row of P-47 fighter planes. In the foreground are two of the bomber's engine. Other sections of the plane were demolished by explonsions and fire. Two crewmen were killed and five injured."
Date: November 11, 1947
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5921]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "One of the 10 B-29s dragged to safety when flames broke out in the repair building at Tinker field furnished a picturesque for this general view by Joe Miller, Times staff photographer. First flames were spotted just beyond the ambulance and the point from which white smoke is pouring. The huge hanger behind is completely obscured by the heavy (?) which covered the area. Firemen were attempting to enter the building … more
Date: January 28, 1946
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0043]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This empty four-ton gasoline trailer was tossed 171 feet along the Rock Island railroad main line right-of-way near NE 10 Thursday when it was struck a glancing blow by a passenger train."
Date: February 28, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0096

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of four men standing in the wreckage of a building that burned. Caption: "Monday's noon sun beamed in on the fire-gutted Regath drugstore at Chandler after a $100,000 fire destroyed it, a variety store next door on the north and the entire second story of both buildings, which housed two businesses and two apartments."
Date: April 14, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0107

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of roof of building caved in after a fire. Caption: "The Shawnee Peanut Mill, one of the largest industries in Pottawatomie county, is shown through a bird's-eye view after flames caused damage estimated at $100,000 Friday morning."
Date: August 23, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0099

Description: Photograph taken at night of people surveying smoldering wreckage after a fire. Caption: "The entire business section of Bethany was threatened by flames late Wednesday when a fire broke out in the Moore Garage and spread to adjoining buildings."
Date: January 22, 1947
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0105

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of men working to control a smoldering building fire while a crowd looks on. Caption: "Bethany had a $7,000 fire loss Friday afternoon where it hurt most--the fire house went up in smoke."
Date: November 15, 1947
Creator: Cherry, Allen B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0042]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Close Call. It was a close call for Carroll Stanley Myler, 31, truck driver, but he emerged with only a scratch on his forehead after meeting a Santa Fe freight at NE 8 and Santa Fe Monday."
Date: April 7, 1947
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0108

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of crumbling building wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Walls of the Oliver and Brown stores were condemned as unsafe after the fire."
Date: October 28, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0100

Description: Photograph taken at night of a structure engulfed in flames. Caption: "This is the fire which for a time Wednesday night threatened a large section of the Bethany main street, caught at its height by Bill Elder, an amateur photographer who lives near the blaze."
Date: January 22, 1947
Creator: Elder, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0106

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a building engulfed in flames. Caption: "By the time firemen arrived the geology building on OU's south campus was fiercely ablaze Thursday."
Date: November 28, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0269]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There's the first round won." CIO pickets yelled Wednesday as a Santa Fe train gave up efforts to enter the Armour & Co. plant."
Date: March 17, 1948
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0271]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This was the scene in front of the Nichols Hills Transportation Co. bus depot at 316 W. Grand Tuesday as pickets paraded on the walk in a dispute over drivers union recognition."
Date: March 9, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0281]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A. T. George, 1200 SW 28, an Oklahoma railway Co. bus driver, decided not to cross the pciekt line in front of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. when he went to pay his telephone bill"
Date: April 7, 1947
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0277]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Coffeee is still the life blood of a picket line, and United Packinghouse Workers of America (CIO) members were drinking many cups as they walked their posts around the struck Armour & Co. plant in Oklahoma City."
Date: March 17, 1948
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0284]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Striking Safeway Stores, Inc., truck drivers Wednesday picketed Emrick's Enid Transfer and Storage Co., 1015 W. Washington, in an effort to block bread deliveries, brought here by the frieght company from Witchita, to local Safeway stores."
Date: May 17, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0273]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Transportation Co. buses rolled from Union bus depot Friday despite picket lines of striking drivers, members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen."
Date: March 14, 1947
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0276]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The latest outbreak of violence in Oklahoma city's taxicab dispute came about 1:25 a.m. Monday when a soft drink bottle from a passing car was thrown through a plate glass windo of a rent car service, 1114 N. Broadway, owned by Robert White, who also uses the building for Airport Limosine service headquarters."
Date: September 11, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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