[2012.201.B0415.0084]

Photograph is of a man with a young boy at a table. the man is wrapping a fruit cake in plastic wrap while the boy watches. Caption: "During the holidays, William r. Ferguson, disabled since an accident last July, is not forgetting the many persons who have helped him through a difficult period."
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0103]

Fireman looking through charred remains of building.
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0104]

Charred rubble from building fire.
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0105]

Burned structure.
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0106]

Caption: "Burned Pillbox caused more woe for liquor store owner Byron Gambulos Tuesday night when lighting fluid leaked as he and a guard attempted to light a heater in the brand-new watchtower he built following two bombing of his store at NW 23 and Broadway in the last two months." Firemen outside of burned structure.
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0033

Photograph of a firefighter investigating the charred debris left behind by a fire. Caption: "Was the result of a mid-morning house fire in Midwest City Wednesday."
Date: December 22, 1965
Creator: Crowder, Russ
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0189

Photograph of a fiery structural blaze. Caption: "Holdenville Christmas tree fire is fatal"
Date: December 22, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0388

Raging house fire. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Swirling flames envelope the upstairs room in which Mrs. Minnie Hawkins burned to death in a Holdenville apartment house fire Tuesday morning."
Date: December 22, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0414

Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a building on fire. Caption: "$1.5 Million Fire routed 2,000 customers and 300 employees in Lawton late Monday when this Trade Mart Discount Department Store burned."
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0602]

Photograph shows seven unidentified men and five children observing and working around a structure that smoke is rising from the roof. Flames are coming out the top of the building as well. There is a ladder in the forefront of the image indicating that someone tried to assess the situation from a ladder on the roof. This photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Fireman effort is futile as the Tonkawa Laundry and Dry Cleaning establishment burns."
Date: December 22, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Lawton Department Store Fire]

Photograph taken during daylight of black smoke billowing from building fire.Caption: "Black smoke billows hundreds of feet high from Lawton department store fire."
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: Routh, Audrey
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1240]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TWO LIVES were lost in this car Thursday, when it careened 400 feet out of control on NE 23, killing two of the three youths inside."
Date: December 22, 1967
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1268]

Blankets lying on the side of the road. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 22, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1294]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two officers were hurt when their police car was involved in an icy three-car crash near the I.H. 35 overpass on NE 23 late Thursday afternoon."
Date: December 22, 1966
Creator: Brown, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0119]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. A. J. Hale walked away from this mess with a headache and a couple of cuts. Woman Survives Wild Accident Car Wrecked, Driver Bumped. A Nicoma Park woman took a wild ride with death Tuesday, and escaped with only a headache. Mrs. A. J. Hale, 35 stepped shakily out of her automobile after: Cresting a hill on Coltrane Rd., she spotted the stop sign at NE 23. the car apparently skidded on gravel, slammed sideways into the sight. Impact of the collision sheared the steel pole off at the ground, sent her car spinning 83 feet toward a ditch. Hitting the ditch, the car started rolling. It flipped over four times, rolling once through a barbed wire fence, and rested in a pasture. The right side of the car was caved in. The rear window glass was gone, and the back seat came to rest atop the truck. The area immediately around the driver's seat was the only undamaged spot. Mrs. Hale was taken to Mercy Hospital. Doctors said she bumped her head once and suffered several small cuts on her legs and arms."
Date: December 22, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0311]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FIREMEN INSPECT THE WRECKAGE OF a car which exploded and burned after a spectacular spill at Ne 13 and Lindsay Tuesday night. Two occupants of the car, Hugh McDonald, 70, and Marie Herr,53, both of 1315 W Park place, were pulled from the burning wreckage. Neither was injured seriously. Police say McDonald's car rolled end over end 105 feet it was struck in the side by a car driven by Mrs. Naomi Wallen, 31, of 4600 Nw 45 terrace. Mrs. Wallen's 5-year-old daughter, Freddie, suffered bruises."
Date: December 22, 1953
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0175]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Sixteen cars of a Frisco freight train derailed between Wetumka and Yeager early Friday, rupturing at least four tank cars containing sulfuric acid and a highly flammable petroleum distillate."
Date: December 22, 1967
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0177]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Sixteen cars of a Frisco freight train derailed between Wetumka and Yeager early Friday, rupturing at least four tank cars containing sulfuric acid and a highly flammable petroleum distillate."
Date: December 22, 1967
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1064]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Effie and Addie Cherry, who inspired a raucous razzing in Oscar Hammerstein's old Olympia Theater in New York in 1901, recently presented their entertainment before 2,500 attending a barn dance broadcast."
Date: December 22, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0072.0440]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Russell rebounds here's Bill Russell of San Francisco's champions demonstrating his amazing jumping ability as he leaps high to snare a rebound against George Washington."
Date: December 22, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0072.0574]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma A&M controls a rebound as forward Clayton Carter clears the ball"
Date: December 22, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0072.0575]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rebound not hop scotch but merely pulling in a rebound"
Date: December 22, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0072.0582]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Aggie Sophomore Jerry Wallace kicks high to take a rebound"
Date: December 22, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0072.0583]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ballet scene finds guards going high in an attempt to snare the wayward pass."
Date: December 22, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History