[BASEMENT BOX 66.0229]

A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a hotel fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows fire department personnel using a high pressure water hose and a shovel crane to extinguish hot spots in the debris. A barricade, traffic light, and street signs are in the scene, and black and green wax pencil editorial marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "Crane finishes off fire-ravaged hotel."
Date: April 5, 1972
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0236]

A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a fire at the Rex Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows a shovel crane being used to prevent the fire from spreading to a neighboring structure. Caption: "Flames possibly started by transient squatters destroyed the Rex Hotel building, 330 W Sheridan, early today as firemen fought to protect an adjoining business where cleaning solvent was stored."
Date: April 5, 1972
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0228]

A nighttime photograph taken at a fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows two firemen in a bucket lift, using a water cannon to combat a blaze at the Rex Hotel. Caption: "Smoke and flames boil up from Rex Hotel building at 330 W Sheridan, destroyed in a pre-dawn fire today."
Date: April 5, 1972
Creator: Jones, Lucien
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0235]

A nighttime photograph of a fire at the Rex Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows two firemen as they scale an aerial ladder truck reaching the roof of the burning building. Smoke and a Hotel Black sign are visible against the night sky. Caption: "Rex Hotel Fire."
Date: April 5, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0300.0072]

Photograph is of a man in a US Navy uniform pointing to a diving helmet while a woman on the other side of the helmet looks on. Caption: "Even the Navy is represented in the Capitol Hill Home show. The new $1 million dollar field house is filled with furniture and home appliances of every description ."
Date: April 5, 1956
Creator: unknown
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 67.0654]

Photo was taken during the daytime. it is an aerial image of the fire and smoke from a forested area as the fire comes closer to a residential area. Caption: "(KO1)-OCTAVIA, OKLA., APRIL 5 - FIRE ENDANGERS SETTLEMENT - One of the numerous forest fires in southeastern Oklahoma edges dangerously near a settlement close to the McCurtain-Leflore County lines Monday."
Date: April 5, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0227]

Smoke is visible against the night sky as fire burns the Rex Hotel in Oklahoma City. The image shows the back of the hotel, and bears green and black wax pencil marks. Caption: "Rex Hotel fire."
Date: April 5, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History