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[Lightning Caused Fire]
Photograph of smoldering debris in field during daylight. Caption: "The ruins of 10,000 bales of Alfalfa, set afire by a bolt of lightning Sunday night, were still smoldering Tuesday on the Roy Wickham place, a mile east of Elk City."
Date:
November 2, 1948
Creator:
Pyer, Ronald
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0090]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date:
December 15, 1948
Creator:
Killian, Thomas F.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0450]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Elk City and western Oklahoma is snowed under with cotton ..."
Date:
November 2, 1948
Creator:
Pyer, Ronald
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0040]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "New State Bridge Speeds Road to Texas Cattle Empire Oklahoma soon will have a new road to the Texas Panhandle."
Date:
December 14, 1948
Creator:
Killian, Thomas F.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0193]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date:
November 16, 1948
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0192]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date:
November 16, 1948
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0191]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rich, black oil gushed from the middle of a bind farmer's cotton fields near here at sunrise the last Sunday in October."
Date:
November 16, 1948
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0190]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date:
November 16, 1948
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0337]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Elk City Discovery well."
Date:
July 15, 1948
Creator:
Jacoby's Photo Service
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0339.0317]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Demonstrating "hands across the border safety" Sgt A. L. Chilcote of the Texas highway patrol Amarillo division in charge of the Panhandle shakes hands trooper Leonard Kelsoe of Elk City as they stand in front of their patrol cars on the Oklahoma-Texas line."
Date:
November 15, 1948
Creator:
Owen, A. Y.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1148.0485]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Salt comes off the line in 100-pounds sacks at the Oklahoma Salt Industries, Inc., Sayre, as James Roy Moore operates the filler, sower and weigher."
Date:
December 14, 1948
Creator:
Killian, Thomas F.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1148.0486]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Brine pumped from 800 feet below the surface is turned into pure salt inside this huge evaporator."
Date:
December 14, 1948
Creator:
Killian, Thomas F.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0334]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Shell oil Co. No. 1. Elk city field, Beckham county , Okla.. Nov. 1 1948"
Date:
November 1, 1948
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 2645 (neg)
A photograph negative showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 2645, 2-8-2, on eastbound freight, leaving Elk City, OK, 35 cars, 30 mph.
Date:
July 25, 1948
Creator:
George, Preston
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 530 & 483 (neg)
A photograph negative showing Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 530 and 483, both 2-6-0's, double-heading on a southbound freight, south of Carter, OK, 42 cars, 30 mph.
Date:
July 25, 1948
Creator:
George, Preston
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 1304
A photograph postcard showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 1304, 4-4-0, on a passenger train, lead car is Railway Express Agency, at Elk City, OK, ex. Katy 312, sister to 1306
Date:
July 25, 1948
Creator:
George, Preston
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 1306
A photograph postcard showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 1306, 4-4-0, on a passenger train, lead car is Railway Express Agency, at Elk City, OK, ex. Katy 315, sister to 1304.
Date:
July 25, 1948
Creator:
George, Preston
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History