BASEMENT BOX 67.0463

Photograph taken during daylight of a smoldering building during or after a fire. Caption: "Flames are shown eating through Sooner school, SE 15 and Sooner Road, in a Saturday blaze which did $60,000 damage. Cause was undetermined."
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0464

Photograph taken during daylight of building on fire. Caption: "Burning debris is about all that remains of the Sooner school, SE 15 and Sooner Road."
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0077.0144]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Feb. 27- Addition of 20 "Visit Oklahoma" markers on southwest Oklahoma highways leading to the Wichita Mountains Holy City has made Lawton the most advertised city on the state's roads."
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0344.0085]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ground breaking ceremonies for the new Temple B'nai Israel were Sunday afternoon on N Pennsylvania between NW 47 and NW 49, site of the proposed $400,000 temple."
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0505.0111]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0967.0211]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Long-distance operators look over new switchboards Sunday as Southwestern Bell inaugurated its new "operator to dialing" system here."
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1109.0418]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fire changes his plans and Oscar Rose, superintendent of Midwest city school district, calls froma store south of the burned out Sooner school to cancel airline reservation he had made for a weekend business trip."
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1129.0303]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It was strictly a family affair at Grant highschool this season as coach Curtis Roberson and his three daughters sparked the girls team to county and district basketball honors."
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1359.0198]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Virginia Eason of Oklahoma City marries John Giffen Weinmann of New Orleans."
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: Petrauskas, Kazimir
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0459

Photograph taken during daylight of a firefighter spraying a building fire.
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0461

Photograph of firefighters managing a building fire.
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0465

Photograph taken during daylight of men watching a building burn. Caption: "Flames whipped by a 35-mile-an-hour north wind leveled two frame classroom structures and gutted a larger brick building housing the cafeteria and classrooms of Sooner School, SE 15 and Sooner Road, a half mile west of Midwest City, at noon Saturday."
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0501]

Photograph is of a structure that has been destroyed by fire. Flames are still present in the rubble. The building behind the destroyed structure is also on fire. Firemen are present between the two buildings.
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0502]

Photograph is of a structure with a raging fire and black smoke rising from it. the roof and one wall has been consumed by fire and collapsed onto the ground outside of the structure. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0504

Photograph taken during daylight of firemen spraying water from a hose on a smoldering building. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0505

Photograph taken during daylight of burning debris. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0506]

Photograph is of children and men observing a building on fire. The roof and the inside of the building is fully consumed by flames and smoke. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0507]

Photograph is of seven firemen holding a fully open hose on a building engulfed in flames and smoke. An eighth fireman is observing as the firemen control the hose on the building.Smoke is distorting a clear image of the building on fire, but a piece of the roof is apparent through the smoke. photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0281.0389]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Howard L. Halstead, French war bride, looks at her husband's picture after his brush with death Saturday."
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0351.0662]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gene, 19, LeRoy, 22, and their father, Thurston Land, 2301 S Harvey, and three of their dozens of tennis cups."
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Vaughn, Lloyd
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1080.0487]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1247.0057]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "MR. and Mrs. W. C. Brainard, 2832 NW 26, prepare to flip another flapjack as Rev. Howard Simpson, a vicar of St. John's, looks on."
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Vaughn, Lloyd
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0094.0875]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "INTERIOR SCUTTLED --- This once was a stateroom where perhaps a king or a queen held court.. It will take a lot of fixing ..."
Date: February 26, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0094.0876]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TOURIST - EYE VIEW of the Pirate is from here . The stairway entrance will be at the rear.."
Date: February 26, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History