[BASEMENT BOX 67.0641]

Photograph is of merchandise set up on boxes and carts in the street. Many unidentified people are looking at the items. Photograph was taken during the night time. Caption: "In the picture below is shown the effort of townspeople to salvage merchandise and equipment from stores in the flames' path."
Date: January 20, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0103

Photograph taken at night of men extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "Maysville."
Date: January 20, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0640]

Photograph of smoldering ruins of a building on a street. Front and roof of building is missing due to fire damage. Cinders and rubble is strewn across the sidewalk. photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Maysville started to drill first well Monday for a new water supply. The Volunteer fire department has been expecting delivery of a new pumper fire truck any day. Tuesday night, firemen strung hose to fight a small blaze in the Granada theater, but nothing happened when they turned on the water. The picture at top was taken four hours later, after the fire ate through a half block of business buildings in the Garvin county city of 1,800 to pile up a damage total of $50,000."
Date: January 20, 1948
Creator: Meeks, Richard B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0642]

Photograph of firemen fighting an active fire consuming three buildings on a main street of Maysville, Oklahoma town. In the forefront of the photo is a crowd of people observing the firemen dosing a fire with a hose. Photo was taken in the night time. Caption: "Maysville, Okla. fire"
Date: January 20, 1948
Creator: Meeks, Richard B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1092.0852]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Washita River"
Date: August 20, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1243.0383]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "W. E. Showen has been editor of the Maysville News for more than 25 years, and operates one of the largest plants in Oklahoma in which the newspaper still is set by hand."
Date: April 20, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History