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[Fire at Claremore Business District]

Description: A daylight photograph of a fire at Claremore in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Onlookers watch as firemen endure intense smoke while battling a fire in the Claremore business district. Black wax pencil and editing marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Claremore business district blazes under clouds of dense smoke Friday."
Date: February 21, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1150]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Tom Brett, his wife, of the court of criminal appeals judge, escaped with forehead and arm cuts this morning when her car went out of control."
Date: February 17, 1973
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0888]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8--FIREMEN BURNED IN FLASH FIRE-Firemen are engulfed in flame as airplane fuel and fumes are suddenly ignited while the attempt to rescue members of the crew of a crashed DC6 airplane in Los Angeles Sunday."
Date: February 8, 1976
Creator: Yaro, Boris
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0402

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a firefighter working to control a blaze with a fire hose. Caption: "Flaming grass and black smoke from a burning plastic pipe are doused by unidentified fireman."
Date: February 11, 1974
Creator: Giudice, Gary
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0279

Description: Six fire fighters with hose at fire. Newsman partially shown Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "firemen pour water on the flames at the House of Victoria one of the shops destroyed in the Meridian Mall."
Date: February 1, 1973
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 66.0268]

Description: Photograph displays several firemen on scene after a fire. One of the firemen has his back to the camera, displaying the letters O,F, and D and his name. The windows of the building are shattered and men are working both inside and outside the building. The closest two firemen are holding a large rectangular object and appear to be boarding up the windows.
Date: February 9, 1972
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1009]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rock Island work crews attempt this morning to straighten one of eight cars of a freight which derailed Sunday near NW 6 and Meridian."
Date: February 7, 1979
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

I-44 Skelly By-Pass, Highway 75 Okmulgee Bee-Line, and the City of Tulsa

Description: Photograph of an example of the vast land needed to construct modern highways to serve metropolitan areas like Tulsa. The foreground shows the I-44 Skelly By-Pass and Highway 75 Okmulgee Bee-Line, while the city of Tulsa is in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Intersection of I-44 (Skelly By-Pass) and Highway 75 (Okmulgee Bee-Line). Tulsa in background. Shows the vast areas of land needed to construct modern highways to serve large metropolitan areas.”
Date: February 18, 1970
Creator: Thomas, James W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Erosion Damage Near Housing Development

Description: Photograph of housing development showing erosion where heavy cutting and filling have taken place. Indicates poor planning by the developer. Retaining wall should have been buily by the developer. Problem is too complicated for individual landowner to solve.
Date: February 28, 1972
Creator: Murray, Hubert J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil Workshop With Bob Reasoner and Eight Weyerhaeuser Foresters

Description: Photograph of Bob Reasoner, SCS Soil Scientist and a group of UNIDENTIFED Weyerhaeuser foresters discussing soil capability and soil limitations. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. UNIDENTIFED Weyerhaeuser Employee, 2. UNIDENTIFED Weyerhaeuser Employee, 3. UNIDENTIFED Weyerhaeuser Employee, 4. UNIDENTIFED Weyerhaeuser Employee, 5. UNIDENTIFED Weyerhaeuser Employee, 6. Bob Reasoner, SCS Soil Scientist, 7. UNIDENTIFED Weyerhaeuser Employee, 8. UNIDENTIFED Weyerhaeuser Emp… more
Date: February 21, 1973
Creator: Lambeth, Nickey J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wildlife

Description: Photograph of Wildhorse Creek Site # 42. Beaver lodge above flood prevention structure. Beaver prevents the area from becoming overgrown with willows, cottonwoods and other woody vegetation. OK-4098-8
Date: February 19, 1971
Creator: Fry, Chester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watershed Maintenance

Description: Photograph of fence being replaced on the dam (Site 19 - Frank Carl) to protect woody vegetation to be planted for wave action damage. OK-3703-1.
Date: February 16, 1970
Creator: Rhoads, Bud.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pollution

Description: Photograph of pollution abatement. Charles Young (right) removes a grate from an opening into liquid manure pit located adjacent to a new grade "A" dairy barn as District Conservationist (DC) Bill Harvey looks on. OK-4588-10.
Date: February 24, 1972
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Great Plains Conservation Program

Description: Photograph of District Conservationist Wes Oneth and Soil Conservationist John Upton (right) shown near a tailwater recovery pit constructed on the Dr. Ralph Triplett farm north of Mooreland, Oklahoma. OK-4589-12.
Date: February 23, 1972
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pollution

Description: Photograph of pollution abatement. Charles Young, Woods County dairyman, standing next to bulk milk tank at his Grade "A" dairy. OK-4588-3.
Date: February 24, 1972
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pollution

Description: Photograph of pollution abatement. Woods County swine producer Edgar Lohman shows District Conservationist Bill Harney the removable floor section of new controlled environmental furrowing house. OK-4588-2.
Date: February 24, 1972
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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