Resource Type

Santa Fe (ATSF) 392 Wreck

A 5 x 7 photograph print showing Santa Fe (ATSF) 392, 4-6-0 (BLW), wrecked after it went through bridge 27 near Coyle, OK on March 19, 1909. Photo taken on April 25, 1909. Locomotive scrapped in Topeka, KS, October 19, 1925.
Date: April 25, 1909
Creator: Wood, Sylvan R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Public Hanging

Photograph of a Public Hanging, April 19, 1909.
Date: April 19, 1909
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Downtown Midland Ruins After Fire]

Photograph of Downtown Midland, viewed from the southeast, after a fire that started on April 8, 1909, in the Llano Hotel. The hotel, mostly destroyed with some brick walls standing, is at center in front of the water tower, having collapsed due to the fire with debris scattered onto the main roads. The fire also destroyed the Midland Drug Store and Grocery, to the north of the Llano Hotel, leaving a dry goods store (with a Coca-Cola sign along the front) intact. Across the street from the hotel is the First National Bank, also severely damaged, its canopy partially destroyed at left. People walk among the ruins, inspecting the damage and conversing together.
Date: April 8, 1909
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oklahoma City, OK

Photograph of 14th Street, Oklahoma City, OK. Published by Sadler & Pennington, Oklahoma City, OK, postmarked April 5, 1909.
Date: April 5, 1909
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Post Card from Bettie to Hallie Thurman]

Post card containing letter from Bettie to Miss Hallie Thurman of Denton, Texas. The post card was processed in Ft. Worth, Texas on April 2, 1909. The front of the post card contains a photograph of a house with wood siding and a porch with columns. A brick chimney is visible on the rear of the house.
Date: 1909-04-02~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1909 Firemen]

Photograph of eleven men in Fireman uniforms sitting in two rows in front of the fire house.
Date: April 1909
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group outdoors in snow]

Photograph of four girls outdoors in the snow. Notes on the back of the photograph identify them as Nettie West, Ethel Kelley, Sallie Kelley, and Emma Hite. They are sitting on top of wagon wheel bottoms and looking towards the camera. There is a small store on the left side of the photograph and houses in the far distance.
Date: April 1, 1909
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oklahoma City

Photograph of a panorama of Grand Ave. looking W and Broadway Ave., Oklahoma City, OK, looking N, April 1909.
Date: April 1909
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History