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BASEMENT BOX 67.0212
Photograph taken during daylight of people standing near structural wreckage and an ambulance. Caption: "An ambulance is backed up waiting to take the last of the victims from the Thursday morning fire that claimed 16 lives"
Date:
January 10, 1959
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0213
Photograph taken during daylight of a young man kneeling near debris. A crowd stands in the background. Caption: "Because Johnny Steward went on a possum hunt, he is alive today."
Date:
January 10, 1959
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0214
Photograph of two men lifting the body of a person burned beyond recognition in a fire. Caption: "They lift the body of a child believed to be 8 to 10 years of age---at Boswell fires"
Date:
January 10, 1959
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0215
Photograph of two men moving charred remains of a person into the back of an ambulance. Caption: "The remains of Mrs. Booker T. Gardner who died in Boswell fire with her 10 children and others"
Date:
January 10, 1959
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0216]
A daylight photograph of the charred remains of a tragic multi-fatality house fire in Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Searing tragedy blazed out of the darkness here early Thursday morning as fire swept through a four room frame house burning 16 persons to death"
Date:
January 8, 1959
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1310.0123]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sworn in Monday were new members of the Choctaw Co. sheriff's dept., headed by Sheriff Ed Thornton, left. The staff includes, from left, Jackson Jones, Frisco special agent; jailer Ocie Clifton; Undersheriff Ralph Bowlin; and Harold Harrington, field deputy."
Date:
January 8, 1957
Creator:
Brewer, Gladys M.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0350.0097]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This picture shows Gates creek at the spot where a dam is being built to create a four-mile-long, cold-water recreation lake."
Date:
January 16, 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1243.0549]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Success of her campaign to fight polio brings a smile from Sally Jo Shull. It's right in her own home and for the most of the time, from her bed, that 7 year old Sally Jo Shull, victim of rheumatoid arthritis, is carrying on one of the most successful campaigns in the entire community in the March of Dimes to fight polio."
Date:
January 25, 1955
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1416.0437]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Taking the spotlight away from modern stream-line motor cars of today is the more than 35-year-old buggy, rejuvenated by Dr. H.D. Wolfe of Hugo."
Date:
January 23, 1955
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1060.0242]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Overcoming a fear of cameras, because they reminded her of x-ray machines she posed for this March of Dimes Poster."
Date:
January 16, 1955
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History