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BASEMENT BOX 67.0306

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a building with a fire truck nearby. Caption: "Officials of the First Methodist Church, destroyed by a $250,000 fire Monday, will meet Tuesday to determine a temporary meeting place for the congregation and for plans for future building."
Date: December 9, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cloud seeding generator

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Cut lines. . . RAIN MACHINE - J.B. Ford, Elk City filling station attendant, turns on a cloud seeding generator."
Date: May 28, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Lightning Caused Fire]

Description: Photograph of smoldering debris in field during daylight. Caption: "The ruins of 10,000 bales of Alfalfa, set afire by a bolt of lightning Sunday night, were still smoldering Tuesday on the Roy Wickham place, a mile east of Elk City."
Date: November 2, 1948
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0558]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Blazing Fragments of one wing remain to mark the scene of Tinker air force base pilot Bernard J. Bogoslofski's second brush with death in one month."
Date: March 25, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0546]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car Wreck Kills Sentinel Woman An unidentified observer views the wreckage which took the life of Mrs. Orville Sherman, 42, of Sentinel, who lost control of her vechile on a curve near Elk City. The auto traveled 720 feet before it turned over, throwing Mrs. Sherman out. The accident happened Monday night."
Date: June 3, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0561]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Elk City Man Injured When Car Plunges Into Creek Marshall Clinton Kelly of Elk City was under treatment Monday for a possible fractured vertebra, but he was thankful to be alive after his car plunged into Sand creek about two miles from Sayre on U.S. 66 late Saturday. Kelly`s car missed a bridge and went out of sight under the water. Kelly escaped through a back door, torn open when the car sideswiped the bridg… more
Date: February 13, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0528]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Visitors to the Elk City rodeo Thursday and Friday will see in addition the evidence of a real historical find--bones believed to be Black Kettle's. killed by General Custer's men Nov. 27, 1868."
Date: 1934
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0125.0036]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New style desks have been provided for the house of representatives. Two members will sit at a desk and each member will be on the aisle."
Date: January 5, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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