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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0979]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A small flood was created on North Eastern near Grand Boulevard this morning when an auto smashed into a fire hydrant."
Date: January 8, 1980
Creator: Buehner, Jeff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0266]

Men inspecting aircraft wreckage near a barn. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 10, 1980
Creator: Longstreath, David
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0317.0366]

Photograph is of a man wearing a suit and tie, leaned over a table piled with stacks of paper. He is looking down smiling. Caption: "Helping tabulate information on piles of YMCA junior baseball questionnaires"
Date: January 20, 1958
Creator: Gumm, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0102]

Three people looking at the plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kerr McGee."
Date: January 15, 1974
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0100]

Officials inspect wreckage of plane. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Officials inspect forlorn heap of smoking metal that was an executive jet plane."
Date: January 15, 1974
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0412

Night time fire engine ladder to upper story of burning builidng. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Some hotel guests escaped on fire department ladder units."
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0453

Fire hose putting out hot spots of night time fire at Rexall Drugs. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One of five stores destroyed early Monday on Maud main street was a complete loss in wind-fed blaze that started in next-door cafe."
Date: January 31, 1965
Creator: Garner, Frank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0233

Photograph taken during daylight of buildings destroyed by fire where rubble and charred wreckage remain. A firetruck and fire hose are nearby.
Date: January 11, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0363.0300]

Photograph is a head shot of an older man wearing a military dress uniform. Caption: "Gen. Howell M. Estes Jr., U. S. Air Force, Military Airlift Command"
Date: January 28, 1965
Creator: Wood, Tony
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0393]

Photograph is of a structure burning to the ground completely engulfed in flames and smoke. Debris is surrounding the structure as it burns. Caption: "Nobody will park between signs at a time like this."
Date: January 14, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0314

Photograph of firefighters driving water from a hallway using shovels and squeegees. Caption: "A fireman cleans up water pumped into the Mark Twain Elementary School"
Date: January 3, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0115.0498]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Alvin Burchett relives his teen-age years every day in his Route 66 restaurant, as do tourists who are attracted by the nostalgic mural."
Date: January 26, 1994
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0544]

A nighttime photograph showing a fireman as smoke billows from the Walker Walgreen Drug store in Ponca City after a fire swept through the building.
Date: January 16, 1962
Creator: Casto, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0367

Photograph taken during daylight of construction equipment dismantling the remains of a building damaged after a fire. Caption: "Cleanup continues at the site of the Carpet Warehouse fire in Frederick last week."
Date: January 26, 1976
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0413.0243]

Photograph is of a man in a military dress uniform walking down stairs.
Date: January 26, 1942
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Coweta Oklahoma Fire, 1970

Photograph taken during daylight of a man standing near buildings destroyed by fire. An emergency vehicle is parked nearby. Caption: "Four buildings were destroyed in an early morning fire."
Date: January 10, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0411.0119]

Photograph is of a group of men dressed in formal naval uniforms in line formation and saluting as one man is standing directly in front of the camera holding a briefcase in one hand and saluting in the other. Caption: "and out of the U.S. Navy was Thomas Henry Farrar, senior chief hospitalman."
Date: January 10, 1963
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1035]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City streets were still hazardous Monday from several weeks of snow and Ice as evidenced by an overturned car in the 1500 block of SE 29."
Date: January 30, 1978
Creator: Thompson, Michal
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0323]

Photograph is of three firemen holding various fire hoses aimed at the roof of a multiple story building in a business district. Debris, including burnt bricks are strewn across the sidewalk in front of the building. The roof, windows and front of building has begun to collapse. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Firemen battle this downtown Enid fire which Sunday destroyed or heavily damaged most of a business block."
Date: January 16, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fire truck covered in ice, Lawton, Oklahoma

Photograph taken at night of firetruck covered with ice. Caption: "Freezing temperatures added to the difficulty of fighting a fire in the Amvets Club in Lawton Thursday night."
Date: January 19, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[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 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

.[2012.201.B0363.0456]

Photograph is a head shot of a man wearing a button down shirt, jacket, and tie. Caption: "Perkins Journal editor Bob Evans sympathized with Bucher, but added that navy rules are made to be followed."
Date: January 24, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0601]

Photograph shows flames consuming the roof of an aluminum rounded roof building. Smoke and flames are spilling out of the top of the building from all doorways, edges and windows. A fire truck is in the foreground of the photograph. No person is present in the image. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Fireman try in vain to curb McAlester surplus store blaze that Thursday caused extensive damage."
Date: January 26, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History