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BASEMENT BOX 67.0444

Photograph taken during daylight of a crowd of people viewing the destruction of a burned building.
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0211

Photograph taken at night of a firefighter standing next to a burning building. Caption: "This is what Blackwell firemen found when they arrived at the scene of the disastrous fire here Saturday night"
Date: April 6, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[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 67.0614]

Photograph is of main street in Synder, OK. A fire has consumed three businesses on the main street that were next to each other. The rubble is in the street. A man helps guide a fire hose through the buildings. Smoke is raising out of the center of one of the buildings. This photograph was taken during the day time.
Date: April 27, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0313]

Photograph is of a fireman on top of the open ladder off the fire pump truck spraying an open hose onto the roof of a burning brick building. Smoke is billowing out of the roof of the building. Two other firemen are holding hoses that are spraying into the broken windows into the multiple story structure from the ground.
Date: April 16, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0423.0188]

Photograph is the head shot of a young man smiling with a baseball uniform on.
Date: April 15, 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0422.0222]

Photograph is of man in a baseball uniform and hat about to step on home plate. Another man, the catcher, is stepping closer to home plate. A man in a black suit and baseball hat is standing behind both the catcher and runner. Caption: "This force play at home plate in the second inning brought on a rhubarb between Indian infielder Joe Damato and plate umpire Don Fisher. Damato was called out at home after Beaumont third baseman Frank Tormay floved a grounder and tossed to catcher Mickey Livinsgton for the force out."
Date: April 14, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0276]

A daylight photograph of a two-alarm fire at a plumbing supply warehouse in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows a fireman with water hoses near the engulfed structure and under burning electrical wires. Red and green wax pencil editing marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "Flames engulf south end of plumbing warehouse during two-alarm fire."
Date: April 3, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0595]

A daylight photograph showing civilians assisting firemen with fire hoses, as other citizens observe smoke at Frost's Department Store.
Date: April 18, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0315

Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "More than $500,000 damage was caused by fire early Friday in downtown Enid when the J. C. Penney Co. store was destroyed and Woolworth and Montgomery Ward stocks were damaged. Above, Enid, Blackwell and Vance Air Force base fireman put water into the Penney building. This picture was flown to Oklahoma City by a Champlin Refining Co. plane."
Date: April 15, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0592

Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters spraying water at a building fire. Caption: "A blaze that devestated downtown Woodward was finally brought under control Monday afternoon after destroying two department stores and two lodge halls and damaging four other stores."
Date: April 18, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0593]

A smoke or dust-filled daylight photograph showing a fireman and a modified wrecker truck involved in the post-fire demolition of Frost's Department Store.
Date: April 18, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0423.0178]

Photograph is a man in a baseball uniform on a baseball field crouching in a catcher's position.
Date: April 11, 1935
Creator: unknown
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

[2012.201.B0320.0200]

Photograph is a close up of a man in a baseball jersey and hat with a bat held up to swing at a ball. Caption: "OSU's Terry Edwards"
Date: April 10, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0209]

Several men surround the tail section of a plane after the Braniff Airways plane wreck. A workman is attaching a winch line. A person in the crowd holds an Extra Edition of The Daily Oklahoman. The headline reads "8 KILLED IN CITY AIR CRASH". Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Braniff Airways crash in city March 26, 1939 which killed 8 people."
Date: April 1, 1939
Creator: Brooks, G.E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0596]

A smoke or dust-filled daylight photograph showing a fireman and a modified wrecker truck involved in the post-fire demolition of Frost's Department Store.
Date: April 18, 1972
Creator: unknown
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

[2012.201.B0051.0099]

Daytime photo of a fireman walking away from a flipped aircraft. Two fire extinguishers are in the foreground. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wind flipped a private plane at Wiley Post Airport Saturday."
Date: April 6, 1974
Creator: Artman, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0210

Photograph taken at night of people near a burning building. Caption: "Fire belches out of the Oklahoma Tire and Supply."
Date: April 6, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0413.0246]

Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform and hat throwing a baseball. Caption: "left is Bobby Feller, Cleveland ace, about to uncork his blazing fast ball which held the Giants to three runs in eight inning."
Date: April 12, 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1435]

Aftermath of a car that hit a school street sign. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 10, 1964
Creator: Wood, Tony
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

2012.201.B0302.0008

Photograph of two men in a performance. Caption: "Strawberries, two little steel balls, and back stage visits by psychiatrists are quietly making believers of those who see James Demopolos in the role of Captain Queeg at the Mummers Theater."
Date: April 3, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
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