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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1393]

Back end of a police car. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 5, 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0353

Photograph taken during daylight firefighters working to control a smoldering structural fire with fire hoses.
Date: August 21, 1973
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0358.0044]

Photograph is of a man wearing a naval uniform standing in front of a black car shining the front headlight. Caption: "Seaman J. E. Emerson polishes up the new automobile he won on a dollar investment."
Date: August 18, 1950
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0311.0339]

Photograph is of a group of boys and their coaches near the home plate in team picture formation. Caption: "Won the peewee 1 championship of the Harding area of the YMCA junior baseball program."
Date: August 25, 1958
Creator: Snodgrass, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

2012.201.B0319.0093

Photograph of a seated woman in a dress and tiara holding a cat. Caption: "Club president Mrs. Sammy Eagy manages to show two of her hobbies in this picture-square dancing (her dress) and raising cats (note the Siamese kitten in her lap)."
Date: August 4, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0355]

A group of people looking an airplane that sets with its propeller in the dirt and its tail in the sky. One man is peering into the cockpit. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A LANDING."
Date: August 21, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0488]

Six fire fighters putting out fire daytime by two automobiles. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen fight the auto parts store blaze."
Date: August 14, 1969
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0485]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A rescue-man looks over the wreckage of a twin-engine Beech Baron that crashed short of Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport Thursday, seriously injuring all fire persons aboard. They were identified as pilot John N. Banks, 44, of Malvern, Ark., his wife Margaret, 44, their son, John N. Banks Jr.,20, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Fox, both 68, of Cairo. Ill."
Date: August 27, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0107

Photograph taken during daylight of roof of building caved in after a fire. Caption: "The Shawnee Peanut Mill, one of the largest industries in Pottawatomie county, is shown through a bird's-eye view after flames caused damage estimated at $100,000 Friday morning."
Date: August 23, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0444

Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters and people standing outside of the Club Tempo Dancing. Caption: "A blackened cage for Club Tempo's parrot mascot, 'Daisy' remained mute testimony Tuesday to a fire that raked the tavern's interior, causing $34,000 in damage."
Date: August 22, 1967
Creator: Brown, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Daytime photo of plane wreck with an ambulance and firemen on scene. Officials inspect wreckage in a city area. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Members of the Tulsa Fire Department and emergency workers inspect wreckage of a plane that crashed into a divided residential street in the neighborhood near the Tulsa International Airport. The two people in the plane were killed."
Date: August 13, 1982
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph is of a young man wearing a button down shirt with his fingers from one hand on the other hand similar to if he was counting looking towards the ground.
Date: August 11, 1946
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0426

Photograph taken at night of firefighters battling a blaze in a smoldering retail building. Caption: "Possibly started by an Arsonist."
Date: August 30, 1974
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0422.0212]

Photograph is of a man in a catcher's uniform and sitting in the catcher's squat with his baseball glove. Caption: "Manager of the Seminole Redbirds"
Date: August 8, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0317.0330]

Photograph is of a man dressed in a baseball uniform with a bat resting on his left shoulder.
Date: August 24, 1949
Creator: East, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0414.0099]

Photograph is a baseball team of young men in team photo formation with the coaches standing behind the kneeling and sitting team. Caption: "These Stan Waitie Owls are Peewee 1 champions of their league in the gigantic YMCA junior baseball circuit."
Date: August 27, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1223]

Damage within a mattress store after a car crashed into the store. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 31, 1967
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Baseball players Earl Huckleberry and Conrad Fisher

Photograph is of two men wearing matching baseball uniforms. One man is crouched down while another is standing with his hands on his hip. Caption: "Long Earl Huckleberry, right of Seminole, established himself as one of the crack pitchers of the sandlot tourney by fanning 12 batters in his first start. His battery mate, left above, is Conrad Fisher, also the team's manager." Additional information not included in the Daily Oklahoman caption: Earl Eugene Huckleberry was born in Konawa, Oklahoma. He is part of baseball history because his entire major league baseball career consisted of one (1) game. Huckleberry was signed by the Philadelphia Athletics and pitched one game in Philadelphia on Friday, September 13 against the Chicago White Sox. Huckleberry was the winning pitcher in a 14-5 victory. He was sent back to Oklahoma and never played major league baseball again. He continued to pitch for various Oklahoma semi-pro teams through the 1940's.
Date: August 15, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0960]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Three Injured-- A compact car, southbound on I-35 Sunday evening, was attempting to pass another car when it hit the curb and skidded broadside into a lamp post near SE 15."
Date: August 16, 1981
Creator: Longstreath, David
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0406

National Wildlife Refuge sign on fence. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A full-scale assault against the forces of nature was still underway Saturday in the Wichita Mountains, where nearly 2,000 fort sill soldiers carried a weary battle against fire into its third day."
Date: August 3, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0417.0243]

Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform and cap smiling while seated at a table. His arm is resting on the table. Caption: "Tommy Fine, San Antonio"
Date: August 10, 1951
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0268

Photograph taken during daylight of the charred ruins of a burned building. A man stands nearby. Caption: "The smoking gap in Crescent's main street pictured above was the Yenzer Brothers Furniture and Hardware Company, before a $100,000 fire destroyed the building early Monday."
Date: August 21, 1950
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1391]

Wrecked car in the middle of a busy street. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 5, 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0308.0085]

Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform leaning over looking at a baseball in his hand while another set of hands is gesturing two circles next to each other. Caption: "Bobby Howard, left, whose third straight single broke up the first game of the Oklahoma City-San Antonio doubleheader here Sunday night in favor of the Indians, gives pitcher Bart DiMaggio the no-hit, no-run signs after the latter beat the Missions 1-0 in the eighth inning of what was scheduled to be a seven-inning opener."
Date: August 14, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History