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Apache Ceremony

Photograph of a Mescalero Apache Indian Ceremonial at Ruidoso, NM. Printed by Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, NY. Published by Carmon Phillips Publications, Ruidoso, NM, postmarked March 6, 1964.
Date: March 6, 1964
Creator: Dexter Press, Inc.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0241]

A nighttime photograph of a fire in the downtown business district at Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The image shows citizens and firemen using hoses in a failed attempt to save the C & G Grocery & Market from burning. Caption: "TO NO AVAIL, Chandler Firemen work to extinguish a blaze on Main street there . The early-morning fire at C & G Grocery destroyed the structure and caused extensive smoke damage to three adjoining business places."
Date: November 15, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0242]

A nighttime photograph of a business fire at Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The image shows volunteer fireman Wayne Hart spraying water onto the burning C & G Grocery store from the roof of a neighboring building. Caption: "PLAYING WATER on the smoking ruins of the C & G Grocery in Chandler early Tuesday morning is Wayne Hart, a volunteer in the Chandler fire department who is working from the roof of an adjoining building."
Date: November 15, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0243]

A daylight photograph of a wild fire near Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The image shows Fire Captain Joe Hoover using a pressurized water hose to stop the blaze from spreading. Red and black wax pencil marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "UNDERBRUSH FIRE swept within a block of Chandler's northwest city limits Wednesday before it was halted by a firebreak and water from Chandler's rural fire truck. Capt. Joe Hoover, below, sprays water to halt the advance of the fire set by sparks from a passing freight train."
Date: December 4, 1969
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0244]

A daylight photograph of a grass fire near Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. Farmer Robert E. Hicks watches as Henry McCoy uses a tractor to create a firebreak along Hicks's fence line. Red and black wax pencil marks are visible on the image. Caption: "FIRE SWEPT to within a block of Chandler's northwest city limits Wednesday before it was halted by a firebreak and water from Chandler's rural fire truck. Henry McCoy operated a tractor and blade to cut a firebreak at the edge of blackjack timber to prevent the fire's spread into the tinder-dry grass of Robert E. Hicks's pasture."
Date: December 4, 1969
Creator: Jackson, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0371]

A daylight photograph of a grass fire in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, showing the smoke and flames of burning grass and underbrush along the Turner Turnpike near Stroud. Caption: "Grass fire rage along south side of Turner Turnpike, near Stroud, delaying traffic for awhile."
Date: March 28, 1963
Creator: Composing
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0376]

A daylight photograph of underbrush burning in a Lincoln County, Oklahoma, grass fire. Caption: "Thickets went up in flames before the Lincoln County fire were under control."
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0430

Fire burning at tonight behind house. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Flames brighten the sky above the Lincoln County courthouse which burned Saturday night in a spectacular blaze that destroyed public records and threatened a new courthouse annex (foreground). Lt. J. P. Smith, army officer in Chandler on leave, shot this picture."
Date: December 24, 1967
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0644]

Photograph shows a truck driving down a dirt road with a man riding in the bed of the truck. The truck is driving towards a grey cloud of smoke. The fields on either side of the road are burnt. Caption: "The fire was first spotted about 9 a.m., and it wasn't until 3 p.m. that it was brought under control."
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Correspondence from Father C. H. D. Brown Regarding St. Richard's Episcopal Church in Chandler (open access)

Correspondence from Father C. H. D. Brown Regarding St. Richard's Episcopal Church in Chandler

A letter from Father Brown about the ending of service at St. Richard's Church in Chandler.
Date: 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Correspondence from Rt. Reverend Chilton Powell (open access)

Correspondence from Rt. Reverend Chilton Powell

Rt. Revered Chilton Powell, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, approves the name and vestry selected for the new church as St. Richard's Episcopal Church.
Date: 1963
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Correspondence to Reverend Joseph B. Dickinson from Rt. Reverend Chilton Powell (open access)

Correspondence to Reverend Joseph B. Dickinson from Rt. Reverend Chilton Powell

Letter from Bishop Powell requesting a mission name and vestry be selected for the Episcopal congregation in Chandler. The mission became St. Richard's Episcopal Church.
Date: 1963
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Eroded Clay Site on Charles Rackley Farm

Photograph of "Eroded Clay site. Good condition, natural reseeding of bluestem mixture on formerly cultivated field. Renfrew-Vernon Complex - 2-5% severely eroded (5-CD-4-field #)."
Date: November 1965
Creator: Stidham, N.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
History of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Chandler (open access)

History of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Chandler

A partially completed written history of the first Episcopal Church in Chandler.
Date: 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Loamy Prairie Excellent Condition

Photograph of a loamy prairie range site used for hay meadow-bluestem in excellent condition. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Loamy Prairie Excellent Condition. Used for hay meadow – bluestem maintained by cutting high early and not overused."
Date: November 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Script: Arlington school board] (open access)

[News Script: Arlington school board]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: May 16, 1969
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Killings] (open access)

[News Script: Killings]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.
Date: June 11, 1967
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Prague] (open access)

[News Script: Prague]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 21, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The Only Way" Church Sac & Fox Indians (open access)

"The Only Way" Church Sac & Fox Indians

Article describes the history of government relations with the Sac and Foxes, the establishment of the Sac and Fox Agency, and the history of the "Only Way" church attended by the author.
Date: Winter 1965
Creator: House, R. Morton
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0186]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "this was the scene near Agra after a lock was removed on a track switch, causing the cars to derail"
Date: September 4, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0187]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "EXAMINING SWITCH off which a lock apparently was broken and the switch thrown causing a derailment Wednesday in Agra, is Deputy Sheriff Durward Stevens."
Date: September 4, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0188]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Overturned diesel engine and a line of tangled cars and a second engine block tracks at Arga after Wednesday's train derailment."
Date: September 4, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0189]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Lock like this was taken from Agra switch."
Date: September 5, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0808]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Pinned two hours in the cab of this wrecked truck, Jessie May Derr, 22, of Yale was in serious condition at Seminole Memorial Hospital Tuesday night."
Date: January 24, 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History