[Lightning Caused Fire]

Photograph of smoldering debris in field during daylight. Caption: "The ruins of 10,000 bales of Alfalfa, set afire by a bolt of lightning Sunday night, were still smoldering Tuesday on the Roy Wickham place, a mile east of Elk City."
Date: November 2, 1948
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0061]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Robert Henry Fitzgerald,40, if 1220 SW 38 died in this wreckage."
Date: November 2, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0254]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jesse Dale Bird Jr., 1123 NW 46, took two friends out for a drive in his new car Sunday morning and this is the way it looked following an accident at SW 44 and Western, in which James F. Plumlee, 69, of 331 SE 49, was killed. Inspecting damage is Harrell Crockett, 504 SE 30, wrecker firm employe. City Man Killed in Intersection Crash: Three More Die in State. State Traffic Deaths. 1952 to date, 461; November, 8. 1951 to date, 455: November, 1. Death continued to ride Oklahoma highways Sunday as a Camp Chaffee soldier, an elderly Oklahoma City man and a Guthrie were killed in traffic accidents. A fourth fatality was chalked up when a Seminole teenager died from injuries received in crash early Saturday. Dead were: ORVANCE ROLLA COE, 44, Guthrie. ABRAHAM L. PARKS, 26, a soldier at Camp Chaffee, Ark. JAMES FRANK PLUMLEE, 69, of 331 SE 49. ANN MARIE OWEN, 16, Seminole. Plumlee was killed at the intersection of SW 44 and Western when his car collided with a vehicle driven by Jesse Dale Bird Jr., 20, of 1123 NW 46, a student at …
Date: November 2, 1952
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0039]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "William Truman Black, 22, of 527 SW 4, driver of the beer truck shown in the top picture, escaped injury when the truck collided with a freight train at NE 8 and Santa Fe Friday - but his 24 cases of beer didn't fare so well."
Date: November 2, 1951
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0040]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper.
Date: November 2, 1951
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0781]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Schultz was taken to St. Anthony Hospital where he was treated for a deep cut on one arm and a facial laceration, and he then walked from the hospital."
Date: November 2, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0782]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A Moore physician (center picture) tended to Schultz as he lay pinned in the cab, his body soaked in diesel fuel pouring from a ruptured fuel tank."
Date: November 2, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0076.0403]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Volunteer for the Oklahoma children's Cancer Association."
Date: November 2, 1993
Creator: Beckel, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0076.0404]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Volunteer Tom Bateman sorts through order forms for Christmas card sales and for a magazine subscription renewal service, both of which are fund-raising programs benefitting the Oklahoma Children's Cancer Association."
Date: November 2, 1993
Creator: Beckel, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0089.0717]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Tommy Biffle will be Oklahoma's only representative in the Bass-masters Classic."
Date: November 2, 1992
Creator: Southerland, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0089.0718]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Tommy Biffle of Wagoner has been knocking on the door of a major BASS championship for several years, and the door finally flew wide open with his recent victory in the rich MegaBucks Tournament at Lake Murray, S. C."
Date: November 2, 1992
Creator: Southerland, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0829]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "John Blackwell scans first edition of Haydn work printed in 1802."
Date: November 2, 1973
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0097.0171]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Some of the titles to be on display."
Date: November 2, 1979
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0097.0307]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mary Lois Boorom, teacher in Classen H. S."
Date: November 2, 1938
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0097.0338]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Magician Bob Booth, right, and storyteller Al Bostick, left, will be among those who will participate in the National Young Readers Day celebration."
Date: November 2, 1992
Creator: Sisney, Steve
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0097.0410]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Backstage" luncheon preparations are taken care of by two of the hostesses for Oklahoma City Federation of Women's Clubs luncheon, Mrs. V. J. Booth, left, and Mrs. Fay Settlemyer."
Date: November 2, 1964
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0099.0159]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Had the first half gone a couple minutes longer at Norman Saturday, George Boudreau of Purcell, third string Sooner gaurd might have counted a safety almost singlehandedly."
Date: November 2, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0100.0481]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "hand-made back packs will be only one of several craft exhibits at the show."
Date: November 2, 1962
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0100.0482]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These bird nests will be shown at the Boy Scout exhibit"
Date: November 2, 1962
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0101.0141]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. David R. Boyd-Pres. of OU."
Date: November 2, 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0103.0252]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sooner tight end Rickey Brady fights past KSU's C. J. Masters for a fourth-quarter touchdown.."
Date: November 2, 1991
Creator: Hoke, Doug
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0104.0517]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sidney A. Bray"
Date: November 2, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0413]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In the board of directors room at Municipal Auditorium, nine bishops from Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas, were given assistance as they vested shortly before the consecration services for Dean W.R. Chilton Powell, Oklahoma's new bishop-co-adjutor."
Date: November 2, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0109.0435]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "W. R. Brott / Scout car officer / City police dept."
Date: November 2, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History