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[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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0311

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firemen extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "Enid firemen battle this fire at the Los Pimientos apartments more than five hours Tuesday night and Wednesday only three walls of the two story 10 apartment building were standing. Loss in the fire which started about 5 PM was estimated at more than $125,000 by Mr. M. G. Peppers, Oklahoma City oil man, who sold it to Dr. Paul Champlin in 1942. A short circuit in a basement wire apparently touched off the blaze… more
Date: February 22, 1950
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0313]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman on top of the open ladder off the fire pump truck spraying an open hose onto the roof of a burning brick building. Smoke is billowing out of the roof of the building. Two other firemen are holding hoses that are spraying into the broken windows into the multiple story structure from the ground.
Date: April 16, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0314]

Description: Photograph is of a fire pump truck parked in front of the J.C. Penny's building. Three fire hoses and a fully opened fire ladder are maned and spraying open water hoses on the fire. There is a ladder leaning against the building leading to a window that flames are visible through. The brightness from the flames and the billows of smoke are rising from the destroyed roof of the structure. Caption: "a $500,000 fire destroyed the J. C. Penney store here early Friday and damaged adjoining Montgomer… more
Date: April 15, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0315

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "More than $500,000 damage was caused by fire early Friday in downtown Enid when the J. C. Penney Co. store was destroyed and Woolworth and Montgomery Ward stocks were damaged. Above, Enid, Blackwell and Vance Air Force base fireman put water into the Penney building. This picture was flown to Oklahoma City by a Champlin Refining Co. plane."
Date: April 15, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0316

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing building fire. Caption: "Precarious perch is maintained by an Enid fireman atop an 85 foot aerial ladder as he sends a torrential spray into the blazing Lightfoot Auction Company store. Firemen showered the flaming inferno for an hour early Friday morning; however, the blaze was too far gone and the sprawling Enid building and tons of new and used furniture went up in a thick pall of billowing smoke. Loss was about #25,000."
Date: August 17, 1956
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0317]

Description: Photograph is an aerial shot of the roof that has collapsed and been destroyed by a fire from within the building. An unidentified man is inside the remains of the building surveying the burnt remains. Everything that is visible inside the building is burnt. Photograph was taken in the day time.Caption: "Some of the remains of the approximately 35 automobiles, 29 of them 1957 models, destroyed in Friday's #35,000 fire at the Richardson Pontiac-Cadillac Co. in Enid, may be seen in this photograp… more
Date: April 6, 1957
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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