[BASEMENT BOX 67.0294]

Photograph is of a brick building with smoke rising from the roof. A fire truck is parked in front of the building with fire hoses on the ground leading away from the truck. Two unidentified firemen are directly in front of the building. one is walking towards a ladder leaned on the brick building while the other is spraying a fire hose in the front door of the building. The photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Bokchito School in Durant"
Date: December 6, 1966
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0231.0450]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This sign explains the origin of the grant and loan financing the $331,850 Colbert municipal water and sewerage system."
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0830]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Part of debris scattered for 300 feet along highway from wrecked house trailer is shown above."
Date: December 9, 1963
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0295

Photograph taken at night of smoke billowing from a building fire. Firemen with a fire truck and hoses work to extinguish the fire. Caption: "Bokchito School fire, John McCoy."
Date: December 6, 1966
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0261

Photograph taken during daylight of charred and smoldering wreckage after a structural fire. Caption: "Charred water buckets, used in the bathtub while a new well was being drilled, give mute testimony to the fury of a fire that destroyed Mrs. Frances Hodge's home and fatally burned her at Colbert Wednesday. The 63-year-old victim's mother, Mrs. Annie Bond, 92, was hurt while dragging Mrs. Hodge outdoors in a vain attempt to save her."
Date: December 23, 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0231.0451]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The projected snout of the ditch digger that carves out the holes for the sewer pipe at Colbert juts out at left."
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0130]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "as the artist sees the new half-million-dollar toy factory to be built in Durant by the Strombecker corp. of Chicago, America's oldest toy manufacturer."
Date: December 10, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0246.0037]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Rev. Roy R. Craig... leaving Oklahoma after 40 years as Presbyterian minister."
Date: December 11, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0246.0038]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Almost half a century in the ministry in Southwestern Oklahoma will end for the Rev. R. R. Craig"
Date: December 27, 1969
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0423.0272]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Five Americans, who started from Southeastern State College, Durant, and have reached Hollywood are Mike Rabon and Jim Grant, of Hugo; Jimmy Wright, Durant, Norman Ezell, Albuquerque, N. M., and John Durrell, Bartlesville."
Date: December 9, 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0104]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Assembly line construction speeds up the building of dump truck bodies, but it was the locally designed jigs and fixtures which make the work faster and smoother than even at the 55-year-old parent plant in Galion, Ohio."
Date: December 5, 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1426.0700]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Showing off his 8-pound, 2-ounce Texoma bass is angler Bud Young of Durant."
Date: December 16, 1966
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1418.0193]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Speaker at the opening session of the southwest seminar on public responsibility at Lake Texoma lodge was Dr. Robert C. Wood, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
Date: December 8, 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0300]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A candidate who labels himself "not a professional politician." A. W. "Bill" Semple is a doctor of veterianary medicine and has practiced in Durant and attended school at Southereastern and Oklahoma State University."
Date: December 11, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1140.0263]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 30, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1062.0385]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Louis Prentice, district FHA director, checks out a loan application in his Durant office."
Date: December 1, 1969
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0101]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BACK AT WORK despite a leg in a cast is Durant Police Sgt. Larry Self."
Date: December 20, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1194.0490]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Floodlights help show the magnificence of Southeastern State College's new library building."
Date: December 22, 1967
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1239.0354]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rep. Bryce Baggett, left, Oklahoma City is greted by Dr. A. E. Shearer, president of Southeastern State College."
Date: December 8, 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1219.0737]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sam Sullivan Durant Lawyer, d-Candidate for State Rep. Bryan Co."
Date: December 10, 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Durant Daily Democrat (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 67, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1960 (open access)

Durant Daily Democrat (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 67, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1960

Daily newspaper from Durant, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 1, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Robert H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Durant Daily Democrat (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 68, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1960 (open access)

Durant Daily Democrat (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 68, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1960

Daily newspaper from Durant, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 2, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Robert H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Durant Daily Democrat (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 69, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 4, 1960 (open access)

Durant Daily Democrat (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 69, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 4, 1960

Daily newspaper from Durant, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 4, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Robert H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Durant Daily Democrat (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 70, Ed. 1 Monday, December 5, 1960 (open access)

Durant Daily Democrat (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 70, Ed. 1 Monday, December 5, 1960

Daily newspaper from Durant, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 5, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Robert H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History