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Additional Notes on Perryville, Choctaw Nation

Description: Article names and describes each original building within Perryville, Choctaw Nation that are designated by numbered plates. These buildings are no longer standing and were described by the Oklahoma Historical Society's secretary, John Y. Bryce, who was raised within the area.
Date: Summer 1930
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0212

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of people standing near structural wreckage and an ambulance. Caption: "An ambulance is backed up waiting to take the last of the victims from the Thursday morning fire that claimed 16 lives"
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0213

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a young man kneeling near debris. A crowd stands in the background. Caption: "Because Johnny Steward went on a possum hunt, he is alive today."
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0214

Description: Photograph of two men lifting the body of a person burned beyond recognition in a fire. Caption: "They lift the body of a child believed to be 8 to 10 years of age---at Boswell fires"
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0215

Description: Photograph of two men moving charred remains of a person into the back of an ambulance. Caption: "The remains of Mrs. Booker T. Gardner who died in Boswell fire with her 10 children and others"
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0216]

Description: A daylight photograph of the charred remains of a tragic multi-fatality house fire in Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Searing tragedy blazed out of the darkness here early Thursday morning as fire swept through a four room frame house burning 16 persons to death"
Date: January 8, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0395]

Description: Photograph two groupings of men are each spraying a fire hose on a building on the main street that is engulfed in flames and smoke. Caption: "High wind, boiling smoke foiled firemen Saturday as flames destroyed this Hugo feed company plant."
Date: November 26, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0396]

Description: Photograph is of unidentified men fighting a fire that has completely overtaken by flames and smoke in the night sky. Water is being sprayed on the structure from a pump truck and a hose from a different direction. Caption: "Sweeps the Hugo Milling Co. elevator as firemen work to bring the flames under control Tuesday morning."
Date: August 7, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0398]

Description: Photograph is of two firemen holding a hose spraying in the distance while a structure is completely encompassed in flames and smoke in the background. Caption: "Arson believed responsible for two weekend fires at the Goodland Indian Orphanage campus four miles southwest of Hugo."
Date: April 12, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0655]

Description: Graphic created to accompany a story about fires in the Southwest east corner of Oklahoma. Caption: "Wind-whipped fires caused an estimated $500,000 damage in Hugo Saturday and raged out of control Saturday night in tinder-dry pine forests of McCurtain and Leflore Counties and into Arkansas."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Beef Stock Cattle Grazing on Native Grass Rangeland in Excellent Condition

Description: Photograph of two beef stock cattle grazing on native grass rangeland in excellent condition. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Native Grass Range. Range Class-Excellent Condition. Blackland Prairie Site. Land Capability Class I. 5-GP. Slight Erosion. Carrying capacity 25 head of mature beef stock on 100 acres early spring to late summer. Range Conservation measures practiced, controlled grazing, no burning, phosphate application. This native grassland has received good treatment throughou… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Boswell, 1903

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Boswell in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: October 1903
Creator: Oklahoma Inspection Bureau
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Boswell, 1906

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Boswell in Choctaw County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: January 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Boswell, 1906

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Boswell in Choctaw County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: January 1906
Creator: Oklahoma Inspection Bureau
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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