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[2012.201.B0317.0325]
Photograph is a portrait of a man wearing a baseball jersey and cap.
Date:
March 23, 1948
Creator:
East, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0317.0331]
Photograph is of a man standing dressed in a baseball uniform with three bats leaning against his leg and arm resting on a cart. Caption: "Below Grant Dunlap awaits his turn in the bating cage."
Date:
March 22, 1948
Creator:
East, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0039
Photograph taken of the charred interior of a building damaged by fire. Caption: "Explosion in which Homer Long was fatally burned."
Date:
May 26, 1948
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0044]
A nighttime photograph of an Oklahoma Natural Gas Company pipeline explosion in the vicinity of Oklahoma City and Moore in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "This spectacular tower of flames, which lighted southern Oklahoma City and Moore for several hours early Friday, came after a 12-inch Oklahoma Natural Gas Co., main line exploded at midnight Thursday."
Date:
February 12, 1948
Creator:
Meek, Richard B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0097
Photograph taken during daylight of people viewing destruction inside a building gutted by fire. Caption: "This is what the Shawnee highschool looked like to one student after fire gutted the 39-year-old structure early Saturday morning."
Date:
March 28, 1948
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0098
Photograph taken during daylight of brick building engulfed in flames and smoke. Caption: "Flames that destroyed the main section of the Shawnee High School building early Saturday morning were curbed after three hours."
Date:
March 28, 1948
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0101
Photograph taken during daylight of the smoldering shell of what was once Shawnee High School. Caption: "Only the doorway facing U. S. 270 remained in one piece Saturday morning after a $500,000 fire swept the Shawnee High School, destroying the main part of the building."
Date:
March 27, 1948
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0103
Photograph taken at night of men extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "Maysville."
Date:
January 20, 1948
Creator:
Meek, Richard B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0115]
Photograph is of two men surveying the remains of a home that has been consumed with flames and burnt to the foundation. Black burnt rubble is all around the two men. An oven is the only recognizable item. Caption: "A gas range, standing among ashes, was about all that remained of the Sam Bidwell home Saturday morning after an explosion and flash fire claimed the lives of four children and injured the mother of one."
Date:
April 17, 1948
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0116
Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters managing a smoldering fire with water towers nearby.
Date:
June 12, 1948
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0117
Photograph taken during daylight of a smoke billowing from a building fire. Men work to control the fire while a crowd looks on.
Date:
September 20, 1948
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0118
Photograph taken during daylight of a smoke billowing from a building fire. Men work to control the fire while a crowd looks on.
Date:
September 20, 1948
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0119]
Photograph ttwo men are sitting on a roof ledge of a building while the street below is filled with water from a fire truck spraying water on the roof of the building. There is smoke in the air.
Date:
September 20, 1948
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0120]
Photograph is of a wooden structure that has mostly burned to the foundation. there are many groups of unidentified men moving hoses and surveying the fire damage. Smoke is still rising from the rubble.
Date:
June 12, 1948
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0309
Photograph taken at night of people standing near structural fire. Caption: "Champlin refinery's specialty equipped fire fighters battle the blaze which broke out in the company's oil processing plant at Enid early Friday. An explosion in one of the processing tanks was blamed. Damage was estimated by a company official at $650,000. They had it in check by 10 AM although it was still burning and there was plenty of smoke. Two hours later the fire was out. Note the work man who has lost interest in the fire. E. H. Slater, Champlin vice president, said rebuilding would start as soon as ashes cooled."
Date:
March 12, 1948
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0310
Photograph taken at night of structural fire.
Date:
March 12, 1948
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0365
Photograph taken during daylight of smoldering building on fire. Caption: "More than $250,000 went up in smoke in Frederick this weekend when fire destroyed a seed house and 116 tons of cottonseed belonging to the Chickasha Cotton Oil Co., along with a conveyor and cleaning machinery."
Date:
November 7, 1948
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0620]
Photograph is of a structure that looks to be a barn consumed in flames. Photograph was taken from across a field and behind a barb wired fence during the day time. Caption: "Fire which broke out in the seed house of the Chickasha Cotton farm, company treasurer estimated."
Date:
April 9, 1948
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0640]
Photograph of smoldering ruins of a building on a street. Front and roof of building is missing due to fire damage. Cinders and rubble is strewn across the sidewalk. photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Maysville started to drill first well Monday for a new water supply. The Volunteer fire department has been expecting delivery of a new pumper fire truck any day. Tuesday night, firemen strung hose to fight a small blaze in the Granada theater, but nothing happened when they turned on the water. The picture at top was taken four hours later, after the fire ate through a half block of business buildings in the Garvin county city of 1,800 to pile up a damage total of $50,000."
Date:
January 20, 1948
Creator:
Meeks, Richard B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0641]
Photograph is of merchandise set up on boxes and carts in the street. Many unidentified people are looking at the items. Photograph was taken during the night time. Caption: "In the picture below is shown the effort of townspeople to salvage merchandise and equipment from stores in the flames' path."
Date:
January 20, 1948
Creator:
Meek, Richard B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0642]
Photograph of firemen fighting an active fire consuming three buildings on a main street of Maysville, Oklahoma town. In the forefront of the photo is a crowd of people observing the firemen dosing a fire with a hose. Photo was taken in the night time. Caption: "Maysville, Okla. fire"
Date:
January 20, 1948
Creator:
Meeks, Richard B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0643]
Photograph shows a large black cloud of smoke rising above a building. A large crowd of people are turned facing the building observing the smoke. Three people are on top of the building and one is running across the awning of the building towards the roof of the building. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "A huge cloud of black smoke billowed high above Hart Motor Co. in Yukon Friday night as firemen from Oklahoma City and Yukon battled flames in the recently renovated building."
Date:
September 17, 1948
Creator:
Meek, Richard B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0650]
Photograph of the front of Shawnee High School with no windows or door and building behind the front facing brick has burned to the ground. There are over fifteen people visible in the photo viewing the remains of the building. The photo was taken in the day time. Caption: "Shawnee High School"
Date:
March 27, 1948
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hunt's Iris Gardens
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Gene Hunt (Blanche Seale Hunt) - Fallis, Okla. - Author - Postmistress". Photo was taken at Hunt's Iris Gardens. The building behind Blanche Seale Hunt is her house. In 2018, the house still stands.
Date:
May 5, 1948
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History