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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0259]

Photograph is of the remains of a structure that was destroyed by fire. There is metal rubble and burnt wood standing and strewn across the ground. Smoke is still lightly rising from the remains. Caption: "Still smoldering Thursday were ruins of the Chickasha Cotton Oil compress of Chickasha after fire late Wednesday night did damage estimated at $90,000."
Date: October 4, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0423.0187]

Photograph is a portrait of a man smiling and wearing a button down shirt and tie. Caption: "O.C. INDIANS BASEBALL"
Date: October 4, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1338]

Three boys looking at the damage of their car got after a wreck. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 14, 1966
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0513]

A daylight photograph showing firemen and a fire engine at the scene of a smoky automobile fire. Caption: "NE 10 and Air Depot"
Date: October 4, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0196

Photograph taken during daylight of wreckage from a building fire. Signs and other buildings are seen in the street beyond the debris. Caption: "Wreckage from the disastrous fire in Bartlesville"
Date: October 9, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0560]

Photograph of a Shawnee Milling Company building being sprayed by a fire hose, while a crowd of men looks on. Photograph taken during daylight. Caption: "Firemen battle blaze in Shawnee."
Date: October 9, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0381

Guymon Fire department truck and fire fighters at end of daytime fire. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The north side of the fire-razed Guymon Lumber Co., with the bordering row of scorched trees attesting to the intense heat involved."
Date: October 4, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0415.0096]

Photograph is of a man wearing a baseball uniform and hat sitting with his elbow on his knee looking towards the ground.
Date: October 24, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0289]

A daylight photograph of a fire at a poultry processing facility in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows firemen using hoses and an elevated master stream to battle the flames. Caption: "Wrestling a hose three Oklahoma City firemen fight a blaze in an egg processing and packing plant and a chicken processing plant."
Date: October 27, 1972
Creator: Mooney, Hank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 66.0343

Photograph taken during daylight of three fire fighters on a rooftop managing a structural fire.
Date: October 4, 1976
Creator: Artman, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0484

Photograph taken during daylight of firemen using a fire hose to spray water at the Wren Bowyer Furniture building.
Date: October 11, 1963
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0092.0509]

Photograph taken during daylight of a woman, child and dog in a Dog Ears exhibit tent. Caption: "Fred, a companion dog for the hearing-impaired, delivers a demonstration wake-up call to Peter Huang, 9, a third-grader at Northern Hill Elementary School in Edmond."
Date: October 10, 1999
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0944]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Early Morning Crash Kills City Man-- Whang Young Jin, 32, of 604 Westwood, was killed about 6:30 a.m. today when his car, shown above, left the east-bound lane of I-40 near MacArthur and struck a west-bound car driven by Herbert D. Blair, 43, of 5616 Highley Drive."
Date: October 15, 1982
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0111

Photograph taken during daylight of building exteriors destroyed by fire.
Date: October 28, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0263]

The remains of a large military aircraft that crashed in a field near a tree line. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Investigators check military plane which crashed at Fort Sill killing four persons."
Date: October 16, 1980
Creator: Tullous, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[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

BASEMENT BOX 67.0199

Photograph taken during daylight of a fire hose spraying water at a destroyed building after a fire. Caption: "Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water were still being trained on the Grey Building late Saturday"
Date: October 9, 1964
Creator: Heaton, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0108

Photograph taken during daylight of crumbling building wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Walls of the Oliver and Brown stores were condemned as unsafe after the fire."
Date: October 28, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0288]

A daytime photograph taken at a residential fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The images shows a fireman, standing beside a collapsed porch roof, dousing the residence with water from a high pressure hose. No caption.
Date: October 28, 1972
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0368

Photograph taken during daylight of men surveying ruins of Cassidy Grain Company building after a fire. Caption: "Firemen are ready to start fighting again if high winds start from the smoldering ruins of the Cassidy grain elevator."
Date: October 3, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0994]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A close encounter of another kind turned out to be not only damaging, but also kind of embarrassing."
Date: October 13, 1979
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0142]

Photograph smoke and flames billow out the front windows, doors and roof of a single story brick building. Caption: "Tiny blaze becomes a roaring inferno: high wind is blamed."
Date: October 13, 1951
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0478

Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing out of a burning building. Caption: "Smoke from blazing furniture store could be seen for miles."
Date: October 11, 1963
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0311.0302]

Photograph is of four women holding a flag up while standing behind the flag. Caption: "For the position of Honorary Cadet Colonel of the University of Oklahoma Air Force ROTC Cadet Wing are (left to right) Debbie Downing, Oklahoma City; Linda Rogers, Lindsay; Linsday Humphrey, Tulsa, and Karla Caviness, Phillips , Texas."
Date: October 31, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History