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[Photograph 2012.201.B0418.0227]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Manager of the Sherman Williams paint store just below the burning bowling alley stated to Chief Mcalpine that he had $27,000 in wall paper that was water soaked"
Date: December 14, 1951
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0146]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the results of a grass fire in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Here Oklahoma City resident L. C. McNeilly uses a garden hose to water the smoldering remains of his garage at 1620 Northwest Fiftieth Street. Caption: "L. C. McNeilly, 1620 NW 50, turns a garden hose stream of water on what remains of their garage after the wide spread grass fire Friday afternoon."
Date: January 27, 1951
Creator: Orris, John Adam
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0038

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of an industrial complex engulfed in fire and billowing black smoke. Caption: "Here's an aerial view of the huge government-owned Plains Butadiene Plant Borger, Texas."
Date: September 2, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0123

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a gasoline ("gasolene") truck in flames. Caption: "A Johnson Oil & Refining Co. truck loaded with 4,560 gallons of gasoline ignited and blazed two hours Friday five miles east of Cushing."
Date: December 28, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0036

Description: Photograph of an industrial complex engulfed by fire and billowing black smoke. Caption: "A roaring fire touched off by a series of rumbling explosions at the sprawling government-owned Plains butadiene plant near here was brought under control Saturday afternoon."
Date: September 3, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0144]

Description: Photograph is an aerial view of a brick structure that is still smoking from a fire. There are many unidentified people surveying the remains of the structure. A group of firemen are spraying water on the brick structure. the roof is missing and some of the brick exterior walls has begun to cave in. Caption: "Okla. County - 5700 block NW 39 - 1951"
Date: October 13, 1951
Creator: Burns, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0143]

Description: Photograph is of a group of firemen holding a hose on a multiple story brick building that the roof has caved in, walls begun to crumble and the inside gutted by a fire. Brick ryubble and debris are strewn around the outside of the building on the burnt ground. Caption: "Firemen are shown battling wind-fanned flames which destroyed three brick buildings Saturday afternoon in the 5700 block NW 39."
Date: October 13, 1951
Creator: Burns, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0269

Description: Photograph taken at night of a building engulfed in flames and smoke. Caption: "Flames which swept a home here caused the death of four small children. Two of the children were found near the front door when volunteer firefights were able to enter the ruins."
Date: December 5, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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