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[Lightning Caused Fire]

Description: Photograph of smoldering debris in field during daylight. Caption: "The ruins of 10,000 bales of Alfalfa, set afire by a bolt of lightning Sunday night, were still smoldering Tuesday on the Roy Wickham place, a mile east of Elk City."
Date: November 2, 1948
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0290.0036]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ray Damron Elk City street supt., changed old straight curb style to make a rolling curb, easier on old tires and less likely to catch doors of new low models."
Date: March 25, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0321.0684]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Above, Orlin C. Jones, Chief of police, trooper John A. Haworth of the highway patrol; J. C. Estes, fire chief, and Bill Calvert, Kiwanis club, representing all civic groups, study plans for a permanent warning system."
Date: April 1, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0419]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harold Brinkley, Elk City, seated, receives from Paul Showalter, United States commissioner, a copy of a federal information charging him with burglary of First State bank of Foss."
Date: November 7, 1947
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0638]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. M. A. Shadid, Elk City, temporary chairman of the Progressive party of Oklahoma, is shown as he touched off an explosive hearing at the capitol with a vehement denial of Communist party affiliation."
Date: May 3, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0191]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rich, black oil gushed from the middle of a bind farmer's cotton fields near here at sunrise the last Sunday in October."
Date: November 16, 1948
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1249.0209]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "While publisher W. J. "Bill" Bacon is hospitalized in Oklahoma City, Tod Sloan, Elk City (center) , helps Jerry Butler, (left) , and Edsel Thompson get out the Sayre Headlight-Joutnal."
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0339.0317]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Demonstrating "hands across the border safety" Sgt A. L. Chilcote of the Texas highway patrol Amarillo division in charge of the Panhandle shakes hands trooper Leonard Kelsoe of Elk City as they stand in front of their patrol cars on the Oklahoma-Texas line."
Date: November 15, 1948
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0277.0194]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Volney Hamm, Frederick, owner of moving picture theaters in Frederick, Altus and Elk City ,Monday resumed his testimony in the government's anti-trust suit against the Griffith Amusement Co., which was recessed last December 11."
Date: January 24, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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