Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of two firemen inside a building in the center with water hose and nozzle spraying an area, many buckets/drums all around, parts of the walls are gone and falling, and more.)"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a fire damaged building(s), two firemen in the center with their hard hats and in t-shirts, a man in a uniform looking away from the camera at middle right pointing at something, and more.)"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a fire damaged building(s), many firemen in the middle left with their hard hats and in t-shirts, a smoke exhaust pipr in the center foreground, and more.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A tail section an melted fuselage jut out from twisted beams in this burned assembly plant of the Aero Design and Engineering Company. A spectacular blaze of undetermined origin destroyed the main assembly plant of the Aero Design and Engineering company ar NW 50 and West, on the outskirts of Bethany, early Sunday. Damage to the building, airplanes and equipment was estimated at between $1 million and $1 1/2 million. the building which was located at Tulakes airport was owned by the city and leased to the Aero Design firm. There were no injuries reported although it took 10 companies of Bethany and Oklahoma City firemen an hour and 45 minutes to bring the blaze under control. The first alarm was sounded shortly after 5 a.m. R. T. Amis jr., company president, said seven executive twin-engine type planes under production were destroyed as well as all manufacturing equipment...The first alarm was turned in shortly after 5 a.m. by employes of the Sky Service hanger, located a distance from the Aero Design and Engineering company assembly plant, according to Fire Chief J. F. Smith, of Bethany.......Chief G. R. McAlpine of …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twisted metal and crumpled sheet iron roof which collapsed hide sections of destroyed planes at the Aero Design and Engineering company north of Bethany. The blaze razed the main assembly plant. Firemen from Bethany and Oklahoma City fought nearly two hours to bring the fire under control."

Daily newspaper from Cushing, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Stillwater, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Levelland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Orange, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Sulphur Springs, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "came in the finals of the Okla. state closed tournament at Memorial Park Sun. when gene Land defeated Danner in the singles finals."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This tennis action came in the finals of the Oklahoma state closed tournament at Memorial park Sunday when Gene Land."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Local tennis player Bill Thompson takes a drink break during a match."

Daily newspaper from Miami, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Ada, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Claremore, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Shawnee, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A sad 17 year old canadian youth who has been hitchhicking across the United States the last week just to see what this country looked like, was getting his view Wednesda through the barred windo of the Oklahoma Cit jail. Allen Russell Simser of Caledoma Canada was arrested on a complaint accuting him of entering the U.S. illegally."

Semiweekly newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paying homage to Will Rogers and Wiley Post on Alaska's fog-shrouded tundra this month wea a small group of U.S. navymen from the flagship USS Eldorado, which is currently in Arctic waters."

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Communication Workers of America negotiating with the Western Electric Company for a wage increase and added benefits.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Cleave Harvey was shot by one of his companions during a argument.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a five-alarm fire at an aircraft manufacturing plant near Oklahoma City.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a house fire in Fort Worth.