[2012.201.B0298.0113]

Photograph is a photo of four young women wearing white dresses holding matching flower bouquets standing on a stage. Caption: "night yesterday, 15 debutantes were presented at a holiday ball held in Tinker Air Force Base Officers Club."
Date: December 27, 1968
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0117]

Caption: "Entire front of serpentarium was burned away, despite streams of water poured on fire." Firemen spraying water onto burning serpentarium at Frontier City.
Date: May 27, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0062]

A daylight photograph of a gas well fire in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. The image shows water cannon and other firefighting equipment being used against the burning natural gas. Discoloration and editing marks are visible on the photograph. No caption.
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0063]

A daylight photograph of a gas well fire near Bray in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. The image shows water cannon and other firefighting equipment being used against the blaze. Discoloration and editing marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "Flame . . . blast . . . spew is the story told Friday by this sequence of photographs at the 8-day-old burning gas well near Bray, in Stephens County."
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0064]

A daylight photograph of a gas well fire near Bray in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. Shown are water cannon and a blast of TNT, designed to extinguish the blaze. Red and black wax pencil marks are visible on the image. No caption.
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0066]

A daylight photograph of a water cannon being used to control a gas well fire in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0067]

A daylight photograph of water cannons being used to combat a gas well fire in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0068]

A daylight photograph showing water cannons being used to control a gas well fire in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0069]

A daylight photograph of water cannons being used against a gas well fire in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0070]

A daylight photograph of a gas well fire in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. The image shows water cannon and other firefighting equipment being used against the intense burning natural gas. No caption.
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0193

Photograph taken during daylight of people inspecting a car destroyed by fire. Caption: "Too bad about that pal but you can't run a car with gas in the radiator"
Date: May 27, 1967
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0194

Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters with hoses and firetrucks working to manage a fire. Caption: "The spectacular fire destroyed nearly a block of business buildings and caused damage expected to approach $1 million."
Date: January 27, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0201

Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a massive building fire with a firetruck and fire hose. A crowd watches nearby as smoke and steam emerges from the wreckage. Caption: "Skeleton of building is about all that is visible as fire sweeps block in Bartlesville."
Date: January 27, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Washita Purchase

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Whether the Oklahoma Historical Society knows it or not, that $10,000 purchase price on the 115-acre Fort Washita site included Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Loper." Additional information: In 1962 the State of Oklahoma purchased the land and transferred it to the Oklahoma Historical Society, and restoration of the site began. Fort Washita was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1966 (NR 66000626).
Date: March 27, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0769]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This mock - up of the crashed plane, with pieces of wreckage mounted on a chicken-wire frame, helped investigators pinpoint the origin of the explosion which the CAB says destroyed the plane."
Date: March 27, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1271]

Car lying in a creek. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 27, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1396]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BATTERED CAR sits on its top at 7100 of the east access road of south I.H. 35 after wreck Friday night. Four youths riding in the car walked away from the wreckage, leaving the car there. Witnesses said they said the car round a curve, slide broadside and then roll at least twice."
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1397]

Wrecked car upside down next to a pond. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 27, 1965
Creator: Crowder, Russ
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1406]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "OUT OF CONTROL AUTO rammed into an empty house at SE 36 and Mabel Saturday night, injuring the driver."
Date: March 27, 1965
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1434]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BORROWED CAR James R. Harrison, 16, Midwest City, plunged to his death."
Date: March 27, 1964
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1458]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: July 27, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1472]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Will there always be an ambulance if this happens to you somewhere in Oklahoma? Maybe not."
Date: July 27, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1489]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: July 27, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1492]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 27, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History