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[2012.201.B0051.0101]

Officials sifting through plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKAGE SITE. An investigator peers at the remains of a Kerr-McGee Corp. jet which crashed Tuesday in Oklahoma City, killing the pilot and co-pilot, the only two aborad. The dead were Kenneth Blair Hunter, 65, the pilot, and Jack Ernest Garner, 51, both of Oklahoma City."
Date: January 15, 1974
Creator: Staff Photo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0364

Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters working to extinguish a retail business fire with firetrucks and fire hoses. Caption: "A fire that sent dense black smoke soaring high above downtown Oklahoma City today swept through a vacant warehouse building at NW 10 and Broadway, causing $40,000 damage."
Date: November 15, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0324

Photograph of firefighters working in the charred interior of a structure destroyed by fire.
Date: June 10, 1973
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0428

Photograph of firefighters working to control a fiery blaze. Caption: "Firemen pour water on Springlake Amusement Park fire."
Date: June 7, 1974
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0320.0177]

A daylight photograph of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, native and Oklahoma State University golfer, Karen Edwards sitting in a golf cart. Red and orange wax pencil editing marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Oklahoma State golfer Karen Edwards."
Date: July 9, 1974
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0237]

A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a drug store fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image captures citizens standing near piles of debris outside the destroyed business. Caption: "Debris litters street after flames gutted a drug store at NW 16 and Indiana early today."
Date: May 13, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0234]

A nighttime photograph of a fire at the Rex Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows firemen and civilians outside the hotel as smoke billows from the structure. Caption: "Rex Hotel fire."
Date: April 5, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0188

Photograph taken during daylight of men spraying with a fire hose a building gutted by fire.
Date: July 6, 1974
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1212]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TWO AMBULANCE ATTENDANTS were injured Friday in a two-car smashup at Northwest 39 Expressway and Rockwell while they were en route to pick up another accident victim at NW 36 and Council Road."
Date: December 25, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0378

Photograph of firefighters managing a house fire using a ladder and fire hose. Caption: "At the residence of Irvin Yousey, 1109 SW 61, caused more than the normal number of headaches for firemen Wednesday night when small fires kept igniting on the roof."
Date: November 28, 1973
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0357

Photograph taken during daylight of several firefighters working to extinguish a large structural fire. Caption: "Smoke billows from Aaron Rents, Inc."
Date: August 21, 1973
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1051]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two police officers, Janis Hodges and R.H. Taylor, were injured along with a woman motorist this afternoon in this two-car accident in the 2700 block of N Villa."
Date: December 16, 1977
Creator: Thompson, Michal
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0250]

A nighttime photograph taken at the scene of a school fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows firemen outside James Monroe Elementary School as smoke escapes from inside the building.
Date: March 20, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1091]

Tow truck taking away a car that crashed into a business. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: May 8, 1976
Creator: Etheridge, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0329

Photograph taken during daylight of charred wreckage of a retail store after a fire. Caption: "Blackened ruins of Carter's Furniture are visible through display window frames."
Date: September 19, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0270]

A daytime photograph taken at an apartment building fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows firemen standing near an exterior stairway surrounded by debris. Orange wax pencil editorial marks are visible on the photo. Caption: "Damages estimated at $10,000 to the building and $4,000 to contents resulted today from a fire in an apartment building at 5700 NW 23."
Date: January 31, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0098]

Firemen sifting through a plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fireman sift through the wreckage of a Kerr-McGee Corp. plane that crashed in Oklahoma City Tuesday."
Date: January 15, 1974
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0553

Photograph taken during daylight of building destroyed in fire. Firemen spray water toward the crumbling facade. Caption: "Tumbling wall of a theater building in downtown Ringling."
Date: January 12, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0146]

Scorched remains of a plane near a field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dark area in center background shows scorching path of plane after it hit wheat field. Two Oklahoma City insurance officials and the wife and daughter of a colleague were killed shortly after midnight Wednesday in the flaming crash of a private plane in far northwest Oklahoma City. The dead: FRANK J. HAVELKA, 49, the pilot. G. JAMES HUSTON JR., 37. MRS. NEIL BRATT. CANDACE BRATT, 15, her daughter. Bratt, the sole survivor, is in critical condition in Baptist Hospital with multiple injuries. All With Firm - The five were en route home from the Dallas-Fort Worth area in a twin-engined Beechcraft owned by Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co. when the plane dived into a muddy field. All were affiliated with the firm."
Date: June 4, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1018]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A car, engine still running, hangs precariously over the edge of a concrete guardrail."
Date: January 6, 1979
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0279

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
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0288]

A daytime photograph taken at a residential fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The images shows a fireman, standing beside a collapsed porch roof, dousing the residence with water from a high pressure hose. No caption.
Date: October 28, 1972
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0372

Photograph taken during daylight of a man holding a box open in front of a fire-damaged building. Caption: "Owner Troy O. Lollis clears debris from damaged business at 3730 S High."
Date: July 5, 1973
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0145]

Seat from plane crash lying in a field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Twisted propeller, above, was wrenched from one engine when a seven-passenger Beechcraft crashed just after midnight Wednesday in far north Oklahoma City. Four persons were killed and one critically injured, all linked to Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co. Seat, below, was among numerous item strewn along the plane's flaming path in a wheat field."
Date: June 4, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History