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[2012.201.B0302.0263]

Description: Photograph of a man wearing a military uniform with a cuff on his right arm that reads " recruiting service" standing in front of a desk that a woman is sitting in front of a typewriter. Caption: "SGT. John Alexander Denning is leaving humdrum of Oklahoma City Army and air force recruiting to go Athens to give the Greeks the word on infantry operations."
Date: March 26, 1951
Creator: Burns, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0311.0380]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Answering an urgent call for whole blood for American troops in Korea is Pvt. Charles E. Doyle son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest F. Doyle 3408 S. High."
Date: October 5, 1951
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

American National Building

Description: Photo of an exterior view of the American National Building located at 32 N. Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Lerner's Vogue, Meyerding Jewelers, and Clarks Jarman Shoes can be seen at the street level.
Date: July 1951
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0020

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoldering structural wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Only these ruins remained of the Taboo Club near Midwest City after an early Monday morning blaze gutted the concrete block structure which was padlocked at one time by the county attorney's office, when known as the Highland Club."
Date: December 1, 1951
Creator: Miller, Joe
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 67.0142]

Description: Photograph smoke and flames billow out the front windows, doors and roof of a single story brick building. Caption: "Tiny blaze becomes a roaring inferno: high wind is blamed."
Date: October 13, 1951
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
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