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Gilmer Hotel in Ardmore, Oklahoma

Description: Photograph of Gilmer Hotel - Ardmore, Oklahoma, 1909. Horses and buggies shown in front of building. Two people standing in a doorway. shoes and harnesses repair shop partially seen beside the hotel. The Gilmer was the first hotel in Ardmore. William Franklin Gilmer was the owner.
Date: 1909
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Elks Home in Ardmore

Description: Photograph the of three-story brick building "Elks Home" in Ardmore, Oklahoma with other buildings in the background. There are horse-drawn wagons and a man on a horse with a dog standing in the street.
Date: 1908
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

First National Bank in Ardmore

Description: Photograph of the First National Bank of Ardmore, a three-story brick building in a business district with other brick buildings. Men mill about on the dirt street with horses and wagons. "Masonic Temple" is engraved in stone at the top of the structure.
Date: 1909~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Ardmore Disaster

Description: Photograph of rescuers searching for bodies in the destruction on East Main Street, roughly 100 yards from the explosion, after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK. Seventeen African-American bodies were found in the ruins.
Date: September 27, 1915
Creator: Fonville
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Ardmore Disaster

Description: Photograph of destruction on Main Street, east of the Santa Fe tracks, after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK.
Date: September 27, 1915
Creator: Fonville
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Ardmore Disaster

Description: Photograph of a tangled mesh of wires on Main Street and the Whittington Hotel, on the right, after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK. Seven unrecognizable bodies were found in the area.
Date: September 27, 1915
Creator: Fonville
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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