BASEMENT BOX 67.0386

Eight fire fighters with hoses putting out daytime fire. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fireman pour water on smoldering ruins of Hockaday Hardware store here Tuesday, endangering four other buildings."
Date: January 8, 1963
Creator: Composing
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0387

Five men putting out last of fire in rubble. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Of the Hockaday Hardware store were all that remained after fire swept through the store late Tuesday causing damage estimated at $85,000 by Richard Watson, who with his brother, Frank, owns the store."
Date: January 8, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kingfisher County Courthouse

The Kingfisher County Courthouse, Kingfisher, Oklahoma. The building was built in 1903. This 1951 photograph shows the building after the cupola (dome or original structures on the roof) were removed. Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 3, 1951
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "TWO OKLAHOMA CITY"
Date: June 12, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TWO PERSONS DIED"
Date: June 11, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0706]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crash scene shows the crater dug by a T-37 training plane from Vance Air Force Base, Enid, when it went down near Hennessy late Thursday." Photo by State Staff . Original Photo 6/4/1965. Published on T-6-4-65-RS."
Date: June 4, 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "SEVEN WHEAT CARS of 68 car train were derailed two miles north of Kingfisher nearly Friday."
Date: February 18, 1966
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HEAP OF WRECKAGE blocks the Rock Island tracks two miles north of Kingfisher after seven cars of 68 car wheat train derailed Friday."
Date: February 18, 1966
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This was the scene when more than a score of rail freight cars jumped the track Wednesday."
Date: October 4, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0301]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cargo sprawls on the ground after this Rock Island freight car's sides were ripped open in the crash at Kingfisher."
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kingfisher"
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kingfisher."
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0304]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0305]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Liquified petroleum cars, bottom photo, added to the danger."
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: Brownlee, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two views of the Kingfisher train wreck revels how cars were battered. In top photo, 11 tank cars are stacked like stove wood."
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: Brownlee, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ONE MAN DIED when these two trucks collided on a bridge 2 1/2 miles west of Kingfisher early Monday morning Ernest Hill Barnes, 67, of 1371 SW 27, driver of the loaded fruit truck at left, died in the wreckage where he was pinned for more than two hours."
Date: November 18, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: November 26, 1986
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0424]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Minnie Red Hat, Longdale, waits for her grandson, Luther."
Date: May 10, 1983
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A spanking new tepee is readied for Luther's arrival."
Date: May 10, 1983
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Daisy Black Bear doesn't mind waiting for Uncle Luther."
Date: May 10, 1983
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bill Meeks, Calumet, has plenty of time for a smoke."
Date: May 10, 1983
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: October 13, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History