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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0286]

Description: Photograph is of groups of people standing outside of a single story brick building while smoke rises from roof. Firemen are standing on top of the building spraying hoses into the building and on the remaining roof. Caption: "LOSS WAS ESTIMATED AT $200,000 in this fire Sunday, which destroyed the Lindley hospital, the largest hospital in Duncan. Firemen evacuated 25 patients, including many children, before starting their fight on the fast spreading flames."
Date: December 23, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0477]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harry P. Conroy - vice- president in charge of field operations Halliburton oil well cementing co."
Date: July 15, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0473]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harry P. Conroy of Duncan"
Date: May 12, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0265]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Duncan housewife and skeet shooter."
Date: July 4, 1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0222]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sammie Lou Cooksey, 19-year-old Miss Duncan, displays her swim suit, left, and formal gown."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317.0220]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Robert Lee school , Duncan."
Date: March 3, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0415.0018]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Boys and girls with learning disabilities are receiving special attention in a program recently begun at the Marlow elementary school."
Date: December 2, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317.0214]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Taking shape is the new auditorium of Duncan High School which will seat 1,500 when completed next winter."
Date: June 22, 1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0293]

Description: Photograph is of a group of men in the middle of the street holding an open fire hose on a smoking building on a street with other buildings. Smoke is billowing down the street.
Date: September 14, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0289]

Description: Photograph is of a group of unidentified people observing a fire of a multiple story brick storage building. Tires are strewn on the ground around the men observing the fire. A smaller group of men are holding a fire hose spraying on the top corner of the building. Smoke is rising from where the roof once existed. part of the walls have collapsed into the center of the structure.
Date: September 14, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0103]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 6, 1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0262]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Paula, Ellis, 11-year-old Duncan girl, is a talented ventriloquist who turned to the "do it "yourself" method of learning to make a dummy talk."
Date: September 8, 1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0675]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "NEW MEMBERS of the Oklahoma Home Demonstration executive council are Mrs. Raymond Coffelt, Duncan, vice-president (top) and Mrs. Eldon Bollinger, Union City, secretary."
Date: August 11, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0070]

Description: A daylight photograph of a gas well fire in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. The image shows water cannon and other firefighting equipment being used against the intense burning natural gas. No caption.
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0639]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "From local observations, instrument readings and wire reports, Wayne Cooper prepares his broadcast copy and translates it into Braille with a special stylus."
Date: February 5, 1960
Creator: Weaver, Warren
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0284]

Description: Photograph is of two firemen spraying a fire hose in a building that has been destroyed by fire. there is charred rubble and burnt brick, metal, and wood strewn around the area.. Caption: "Spraying water on ruins of the Murray Rexall Drug Store, Duncan, is Fire Chief C. C. "Buck" Lawson. The fire broke out early Sunday morning. It still was smoldering Sunday evening."
Date: February 4, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317.0217]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Woodrow Wilson school, the city's newest, is getting a six-room segment, plus two other classrooms , from accumulated building levy funds."
Date: March 3, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0245.0021]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Putting away their books for the last time this spring will be retiring Marlow teachers (left to right) Ray Cox, Mrs. Noland Hubbs, Mrs. Ille Ely and Mrs. A.D. Schrock."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 51.0178]

Description: Caption: "DUNCAN-Two Duncan women who believe in U.S. astronauts praying in space have received support from not only thousands of U. S. citizens, but also from President Nixon. Mrs. J. C. Haney and Mrs. Roy E. Finucane, Duncan housewives, have received some 11,000 signatures on their petitions from Oklahoma residents and residents of other states, plus men fighting in Vietnam." Two women sit on floor and look through papers.
Date: March 4, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0651]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "the new Duncan football coach."
Date: August 11, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0475]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Largest pilot in U. S."
Date: February 27, 1947
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0361.0159]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: July 26, 1955
Creator: Bergin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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