[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0249]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Chickasha children stop in front of the First Presbyterian church at Chickasha to examine the rock that marks the site of the first church and school in the city. Above, Edith Ann Swan, 7 and Robert Rose, & read the inscription telling of the first school in 1892."
Date: August 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0637]

Photograph is of a downed power line and a pile of bricks with a smoldering cloud of debris behind a partially standing wall. Photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Smoke still rose from the ruins when the picture above was taken after flames swept through five business firms in Minco early Tuesday."
Date: April 12, 1949
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0388]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At the left : Mrs. Finley, who's still a bit dubious but doesn't protest about the strange hobby of her husband."
Date: October 2, 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0392]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0304.0013]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Beverly Osborne , city restaurant operator, bid $3.15 a pound Thursday might to buy the grand champion barrow of the Oklahoma 4-H and F F A junior livestock show from Harold Deshazo, 16, Tuttle."
Date: March 17, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0639]

Photograph of the burnt rubble of buildings that lined a street. All that remains are partially burnt signs and brick in a pile. A few unidentified men are surveying the damage. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Minco Fire"
Date: April 12, 1949
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0756]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THE Faculty-Student play day at Oklahoma College for Women at Chickasha on Wednesday will feature a softball game between the student all-stars and the men faculty members."
Date: April 22, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0860]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Robert L. McCormick, 33, Sperry, was killed Thursday in the cab of his truck, left, when it crashed into a pipe-laden truck, right, on the Washita river bridge on U.S. 81, three miles north of Chickasha. A truck, driven by James D. Stewart, 29, of 3401 S Shields, stopped at the bridge approach to allow McCormick's truck to cross the bridge, and William Louis Hudler, 24, of 1241 SE 17, driving the pipe-laden truck, was unable to stop. McCormick was trapped inside the cab."
Date: November 4, 1949
Creator: Dresser, Ray
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0250]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The original church and school building is now used as the Frisco Avenue Methodist Church at Chickasha. It was moved from the original site in 1922 when the Presbyterians built a new building and was bought by the Christian Science society. Several year ago it was again moved and bought by the Methodists."
Date: August 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0387]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A typing segment of the Finley walls. Almost anything that can be stuck on with the cement is likely to show up. And he is always adding to it ."
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0390]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the George C. Finley home at 924 Minnesota street, Chickasha. It's a perfectly modern, conventional house except for the amazing assortment of stuff cemented into the outside walls."
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0393]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Greek Theater, Chickasha, Oklahoma

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: ". Asst Professor of speech / Okla. college for for women / Chickasha". Photo was taken at the Oklahoma College for Women original Greek Theater. The current theater was supposedly built near the site of the old theater.
Date: November 16, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0304.0012]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harold Deshazo, 16 , Tuttle F F A member, had quite a workout along with his 252-pound Hampshire barrow Wednesday before winning a grand championship of the Oklahoma 4-H and F F A junior livestock show."
Date: March 16, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0638]

Photograph is of a theater that has burned with buildings to the left of the theater that have burned completely and barely resemble a theater.Threwe men are looking inside the theater while a couple is looking in the windows of a store to the left of the theater. The photograph was taken during the day. Caption: "Minco"
Date: April 12, 1949
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0317]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: February 27, 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0389]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0391]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "George C. Finley, (home) Chickasha.."
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0065]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Swollen Washita Stalls Traffic Into Chickasha Hundreds of automobiles, trucks and wheat combines lined U.S. 81 north and south of Chickasha Friday morning awaiting the Washita river to recede."
Date: May 20, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0322B.0236]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The money for the Rush Springs library came from rummage sales and other activities of the Rush Springs Study club."
Date: November 1, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0400.0378]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Scars of a fire that wiped out a quarter of a block of Minco's business district this spring are fast being wiped out."
Date: May 19, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0360.0261]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jess Larson, Oklahoma who has risen high in the federal government, has become the "rubber czar."
Date: May 27, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0374.0327]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Haskell "Jack" London has announced his resignation as director of music at Minco high school."
Date: September 19, 1949
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0907.0093]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Methodist Church at Minco, above, a landmark since the city was founded, is being torn down and will be replaced by a new 34 by 60 brick building."
Date: February 11, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History