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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0291]

Photograph is of a large group of people in the street observing and helping to spray water from fire hoses on multiple buildings that are burning on a main street. Debris, rubble and water is in the street in front of the crowd.
Date: September 14, 1953
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 67.0290]

Photograph is of a multiple story building that has smoke rising out of the where the roof once was. The windows are missing and the brick has burnt marks. A man is outside the building near a car by a fence.
Date: September 14, 1953
Creator: unknown
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 67.0289]

Photograph is of a group of unidentified people observing a fire of a multiple story brick storage building. Tires are strewn on the ground around the men observing the fire. A smaller group of men are holding a fire hose spraying on the top corner of the building. Smoke is rising from where the roof once existed. part of the walls have collapsed into the center of the structure.
Date: September 14, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0423

Four story Hotel, burned out, street view with fire trucks and fire fighters. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen pour water on the Midland hotel in Lawton Thursday after blaze broke out in the southwest portion of the building."
Date: September 14, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0422.0223]

Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform on the baseball inner field pointing to a spot on the field with a man in a black suit and baseball glove on his hand standing with him looking where the other man is pointing. Caption: "Damato claimed Livingston failed to touch the plate and attempts to say so in the lower picture."
Date: April 14, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0287]

Photograph is a large group of people observing a burning brick building with smoke billowing from the top.Firemen are spraying hoses in the background on the building. Photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "DOWNTOWN DUNCAN was full of smoke and people Sunday as a $500,000 fire swept through a half block of business. This picture taken by Rollin Cox, an executive with Halliburton Oil Cementing Co., looks north at the unit block of North street from the busy intersection of Ninth and Main."
Date: September 14, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0366.0059]

Photograph is of a woman wearing a sleeveless white shirt and a skirt standing next to a man in a Navy recruiting uniform holding a sign about recruiting while the woman puts his Navy hat on. Caption: "Mistletoe company Queen Patricia Stewart tries Lowell Evans' hat for size."
Date: May 14, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Richard
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

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0292]

Photograph is of three groups of unidentified people each holding open fire hoses on a multiple level building that smoke is billowing out of the top. The buildings appear to be on a main street and the cafe is the closest seen in the photo that is completely consumed by smoke and missing a roof due to an active fire.
Date: September 14, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[People washing cars at Joe's Quick Car Wash]

A view from across a street of Joe's Quick Car Wash. There are two men washing a car to the left. A bus is approaching on the right. A man is waiting at the bus stop.
Date: May 14, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First CavOilCade Dinner]

Photograph of rows of dinners seated and eating with a head table in the background. On the curtain behind reads "We Appreciate Your Faith in Port Arthur". Handwritten on the reverse of the photograph: "1st celebration of CavOilCade" "Oct. 14, 1952 - dinner to salute oil industry. Became CavOilCade in 1953." "Valuable, return picture to: Lyle Vickers, 300 Plaza Circle, Port Arthur, TX."
Date: October 14, 1952
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Texas Special" departing from Dallas]

Katy's "Texas Special" train No. 1, southbound, is headed by Frisco's No. 2006 diesel unit as it departs from Dallas.
Date: April 14, 1952
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Bluebonnet" in Dallas]

Back-to-back Alco model PA 2000HP diesels power the all heavyweight southbound Missouri-Kansas-Texas "Bluebonnet" from Dallas toward San Antonio past Tower 19 on June 14,1952.
Date: June 14, 1952
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Twin Star Rocket" departing from Dallas]

Rock Island Train No.17, the southbound Twin Star Rocket headed by No.652 a 2250 HP Electromotive E8 and a 2000 HP E7 approach Tower 19 on July 14, 1952.
Date: July 14, 1952
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dedication of Marker at the Site of the John Henninger Reagan Home]

Photo taken at the dedication of the Marker for site of the John H. Reagan home. Members of the Daughters of the American Colonists are shown. Right to Left: Mrs. Howard Crane Mrs. Richardson Unknown Mrs. Erma Gooch Collins Unknown
Date: February 14, 1951
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dedication of Marker at the Site of the John Henninger Reagan Home]

Photo of Mrs. Richardson standing beside the marker for the dedication at the site of the John H. Reagan Home.
Date: February 14, 1951
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Flight Line - F-102]

Flight line of Convair F-102 airplanes undergoing maintenance.
Date: May 14, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Advertisement for Star-Telegram Youth Spotlight]

Photograph of three slides advertising the Star Telegram Youth Spotlight. The two slides on the left are facing the same direction but the slide on the right is facing the opposite direction. The slide on the left has a clipping from the Star Telegram. This clipping has the title of the column, "Fort Worth Star Telegram Youth Spotlight", with an illustration of a light in a black box at the top and a photograph below this in which two ladies wearing hats are visible. The bottom left corner of the slide has handwritten text that reads "Star-T TELOP #1". The middle slide features text that reads "Coming... Sept. 18 Star-Telegram" and the date is in white lettering while the other words are in black lettering. In the bottom left corner of the slide is handwritten text that reads "Star-T TELOP #2". The slide on the right has text that reads "Youth Spotlight" in narrow black letters. There is handwritten text in the top right corner of the slide that reads "Star-T TELOP #3".
Date: September 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Vandervoort's milk advertisement]

Photograph of an advertisement for Vandervoort's milk. The advertisement includes an illustration of a carton of milk with text on a light-colored background.
Date: September 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Joe McKinney and Cadillac]

Photograph of Joe McKinney and a woman on set. They are posing next to a Cadillac. Two fake, painted palm tree cut-outs can be seen in the background.
Date: April 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Vandervoort's eggnog]

Photograph of an advertisement for Vandervoort's eggnog. There is writing that says, "Vandervoort's eggnog." Vandervoort's is presented as the logo for the company, with the black V behind the word and with the O's interlocked. To the right of the writing is a drawing of eggnog. The eggnog is in a large bowl, a spoon is hanging from the right side. Five small cups full of eggnog sit around it. Decorative mistletoe is laying between it.
Date: December 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Joe McKinney next to a Cadillac]

Photograph of Joe McKinney and an unidentified woman on set. They are posing next to a Cadillac. A WBAP-TV video camera is visible to the right of the image.
Date: April 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library