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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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0575]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "As far as the eye could see there were bits of wreckage on the Charley Boekecker farm where the Vance Air force plane crashed, sending its three passengers to their death near noon Thursday."
Date: February 2, 1956
Creator: AF Training Command
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0839]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DRIVER ESCAPED INJURY in this accident of a semi-trailer truck in a crash north of Drummond, in Garfield county, about 2 AM Thursday. Jerry Allen Abbott, 24, of route 2, Fairview, said the wind blew him off course."
Date: September 6, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0918]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "on U. S. 66 bypass just east of Kelly, and the officers and troopers started to work to make the place attractive for visitors and workers."
Date: May 2, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0580]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "a red carnation is pinned on Dr. R. Q. Goodwin, Oklahoma City, president of the Oklahoma State Medical association."
Date: March 29, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0633]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A fivesome: This golf picture was made in Enid at the Oakwood Golf and Country club where on June 18 the annual tournament of the Women's Oklahoma Golf association will be held."
Date: June 6, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0315]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Roy W. Davis, Enid, Racing secretary, and Merle Brady, seiling presiding Stewart, said some of the finest stock in the country are being brought in got the races."
Date: April 10, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0310.0159]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "she had just registered is Mrs. Joe Dobson, right of Enid, who defeated Mrs. Hayden Davis of El Reno, 1 up in the championship consolation bracket of the Central Women's Golf association tournament at Hillcrest Wednesday."
Date: October 10, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0356.0524]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Stephen A. Leven entered the cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help here Wednesday as a monsignor, and emerged two hours later as Oklahoma's first native-born Catholic bishop."
Date: February 7, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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