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[2012.201.B0099.0296]
Photograph of three adult women posing around a box of naked dolls. Caption: "Unwrapping the dolls that come enclosed in cellophane are (left to right) Mrs. C. P. Zachritz, 2215 NW 20; Mrs. W. W. Bouterse, 2327 NW 30, and Mrs. Lewen L. Thompson, 1206 NW 79."
Date:
October 22, 1954
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0301.0016]
Photograph is of four people standing in the yard of a home. A young boy is sitting on a bike looking up at an older man holding the bike handlebars while an older boy and mother are standing in front and behind the bike watching the boy. Caption: "OKLAHOMANS are famous for their wanderings, but a tall, blond Air Force captain from Weatherford is a good candidate to outrank them all. He's Capt. Dwight Deming, recently arrived in Midwest City from West Palm Beach Fla., as a C - 124 instructor with the Tinker Air Force base 1707th Wing."
Date:
June 22, 1959
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0320.0081]
Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform swinging a bat. Caption: "And speed on the bases are provided in the Oklahoma City Indians offense by Hank Edwards (left) and Jim Neufeldt."
Date:
June 22, 1954
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0161
Photograph taken at night of a building engulfed in flames. Caption: "Two business buildings were destroyed and a third damaged Monday night in a fire that hit the downtown district of this Grant County community."
Date:
June 22, 1954
Creator:
Hinson, Bruce
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 67.0191
Photograph taken of a destroyed building interior after a fire. Caption: "Three lose lives in refinery explosion at Ardmore."
Date:
February 22, 1952
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0301]
Photograph of a man holding a flash light surveying the burnt and destroyed wreckage of shelves and counter area. Caption: "Looking over what once was a complete stock of auto parts is E. G. Wintermute, El Reno, secretary-treasurer of the Samples Buick Co. which was wiped out by fire early Saturday causing damage estimated at $50,000."
Date:
March 22, 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0302]
Photograph is of two vehicles that are burnt from fire. In the background is a building that part of the wall has collapsed and a burnt mark is up the wall. Caption: "Blackened hulls are all that is left of two new automobiles that were in the showroom of the Samples Buick Co. Saturday when a fire of undetermined origin gutted the establishment causing an estimated $50,000 damage."
Date:
March 22, 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0311
Photograph taken during daylight of firemen extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "Enid firemen battle this fire at the Los Pimientos apartments more than five hours Tuesday night and Wednesday only three walls of the two story 10 apartment building were standing. Loss in the fire which started about 5 PM was estimated at more than $125,000 by Mr. M. G. Peppers, Oklahoma City oil man, who sold it to Dr. Paul Champlin in 1942. A short circuit in a basement wire apparently touched off the blaze, fireman said. It was Enid's second major fire in one week."
Date:
February 22, 1950
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 67.0494
Civilian over looking rubble in bedroom. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Six persons emerged with only minor injuries as explosion wrecked this frame duplex at Midwest City Thursday night."
Date:
October 22, 1953
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
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
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0603]
Photograph is of a crowd of unidentified men observing black smoke rising out of the top of a tall wheat storage bin. Water is being sprayed on the storage building. Photograph was taken in the day time.Caption: "Fire fighters try vainly to control flames which whipped through wheat at the Mulhall Co-operative association storage bin Thursday, destroying the bin and some 10,000 to 20,000 bushels of grain."
Date:
May 22, 1959
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lowell Lawrence Males
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Photo of Lowell Lawrence Males (L.L. Males). Noted Oklahoma conservationist involved in the Sandstone Creek Project.
Date:
April 22, 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0559]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Skyview Ranch, half mile south of Okla. County line. W. A. Joiner, pilot."
Date:
March 22, 1958
Creator:
Winford, Wesley
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0589]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Crash Crew workers and volunteers view the wreckage of a B-25 Vance air force base training bomber, which crashed Tuesday afternoon 11 miles south of Cherokee."
Date:
May 22, 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0118]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Teddy Lynn Crase, 7 of 1714 E Eubanks, died Monday morning when he stepped from high weeds and grass into the path of a car in the 1400 block NE 36."
Date:
September 22, 1959
Creator:
unknown
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.B0052.0149]
Caption: "Cecil B. Powers' car show Cecil B. Powers, 20, of 1920 SW 11, told police he was in the market for a new automobile Monday. Powers was driving south on Robinson and at the same time doing a little shopping from a distance in a adjacent used car lot. While shopping, Powers crashed his car into a concrete abutment on the S Robinson underpass, caving in the front of his 1947 model car. He suffered minor cuts and bruises and was charged with negligent driving. "I was figuring on a new car in the near future, and wasn't watching my driving," Powers told B. Lewellen and J. M. Watson police accident investigators. "It looks like you need a replacement right now," Lewellen told Powers." Car crashed into a stone fence.
Date:
July 22, 1957
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0153]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper.
Date:
November 22, 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0197]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SHATTERING FORCE splintered concrete posts like matchsticks Friday when a California-bound car carrying two brothers slammed into a turnpike bridge. Wreckage from the car littered the bridge floor (above) and the impact made shambles of the car's interior (right). Charles E. Burgess of Lima, Ohio, and his younger brother, Richard Burgess, were critically injured in one of the worst one-car crack-ups in turnpike history."
Date:
January 22, 1959
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0199]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SHATTERING FORCE splintered concrete posts like matchsticks Friday when a California-bound car carrying two brothers slammed into a turnpike bridge. Wreckage from the car littered the bridge floor (above) and the impact made shambles of the car's interior (right). Charles E. Burgess of Lima, Ohio, and his younger brother, Richard Burgess, were critically injured in one of the worst one-car crack-ups in turnpike history."
Date:
January 22, 1959
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0224]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO BOYS ON A TOY WAGON were injured critically Wednesday, when hit by a car in the 2500 block NW 33. They were identified in Mercy hospital as Donald Bowman, 9, son of Mrs. Mittie Jo Bowman, 2537 NW 33, and Stephen Riddles, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Riddles, 2036 NW 22. The car was driven by Joanne Sue Holmes, 16, of 2736 NW 21. She said she was blinded by the sun."
Date:
September 22, 1955
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0225]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Doctors' Cars Crash On Overpass; 3 hurt. Two doctors and a nurse were injured seriously Thursday about 10:45 a.m. when the two physicians' autos collided head-on on the S Walker overpass over the North Canadian river. One doctor was thrown from his car by the impact, which demolished the fronts of both cars. The wreckage tied up traffic on the heavily-traveled overpass for 20 minutes before wreckers pulled the damaged cars from the scene. Taken to Bone & Joint hospital was Dr. Clarence Oscar Epley, 73 of 3124 N Youngs blvd. He suffered a shattered left thigh bone, broken right wrist and left cheek bone cuts. Driver of the other car, Dr. Presse M. Paul jr., 29, of 830 NW 24, was thrown out of his auto by the impact. He and Miss Pearline Carroll, 29, a passenger in his car, was taken to Mercy hospital. Dr. Paul suffered a possible broken knee, a back injury and severe cuts. Miss Carroll, who told officer Weldon E. Davis she was Dr. Paul's nurse and gave addresses both in El Reno and at 101 NE 3, suffered severe cuts on …
Date:
September 22, 1955
Creator:
Peterson, Dick
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History