[BASEMENT BOX 67.0246]

A daylight photograph showing the damage caused by a fire at the Cotton Compress Company warehouse in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma. A crowd watches as men use fire hoses to water the smoldering debris. Black wax pencil crop marks are visible on the image. Caption: "COMPRESS DAMAGE IS SET AT $500,000 A 45-mile-an-hour wind Sunday fanned a blaze from papers under a loading dock into the Cotton Compress Co. warehouse, destroying about $500,000 worth of cotton and facilities."
Date: March 27, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1008.0685]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Patricia Patterson, Tuttle, will appear in Teen magazine's April issue as a Great Model Search regional semi-finalist."
Date: March 27, 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1109.0121]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Beekeeper Jim Ross of Minco, the largest honey producer in the state, works with some of his bees on farmland near Minco."
Date: March 27, 1992
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1109.0120]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ross, Jim - Beekeeper - Minco"
Date: March 27, 1992
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History