Resource Type

E-1 (11-29-18)

Photograph of Ft. Towson FD Engine 1.
Date: November 29, 2018
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

E-2 (11-29-18)

Photograph of Ft. Towson FD Engine 2.
Date: November 29, 2018
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

1960 International ALF 1-1-8350 750 500 GM ex-Hugo, OK

Photograph of Soper FD 1960 International-American LaFrance pumper. Originally owned by the Hugo, OK, FD.
Date: January 17, 2018
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0212

Photograph taken during daylight of people standing near structural wreckage and an ambulance. Caption: "An ambulance is backed up waiting to take the last of the victims from the Thursday morning fire that claimed 16 lives"
Date: January 10, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0213

Photograph taken during daylight of a young man kneeling near debris. A crowd stands in the background. Caption: "Because Johnny Steward went on a possum hunt, he is alive today."
Date: January 10, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0214

Photograph of two men lifting the body of a person burned beyond recognition in a fire. Caption: "They lift the body of a child believed to be 8 to 10 years of age---at Boswell fires"
Date: January 10, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0215

Photograph of two men moving charred remains of a person into the back of an ambulance. Caption: "The remains of Mrs. Booker T. Gardner who died in Boswell fire with her 10 children and others"
Date: January 10, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0216]

A daylight photograph of the charred remains of a tragic multi-fatality house fire in Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Searing tragedy blazed out of the darkness here early Thursday morning as fire swept through a four room frame house burning 16 persons to death"
Date: January 8, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0395]

Photograph two groupings of men are each spraying a fire hose on a building on the main street that is engulfed in flames and smoke. Caption: "High wind, boiling smoke foiled firemen Saturday as flames destroyed this Hugo feed company plant."
Date: November 26, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0396]

Photograph is of unidentified men fighting a fire that has completely overtaken by flames and smoke in the night sky. Water is being sprayed on the structure from a pump truck and a hose from a different direction. Caption: "Sweeps the Hugo Milling Co. elevator as firemen work to bring the flames under control Tuesday morning."
Date: August 7, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0398]

Photograph is of two firemen holding a hose spraying in the distance while a structure is completely encompassed in flames and smoke in the background. Caption: "Arson believed responsible for two weekend fires at the Goodland Indian Orphanage campus four miles southwest of Hugo."
Date: April 12, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0655]

Graphic created to accompany a story about fires in the Southwest east corner of Oklahoma. Caption: "Wind-whipped fires caused an estimated $500,000 damage in Hugo Saturday and raged out of control Saturday night in tinder-dry pine forests of McCurtain and Leflore Counties and into Arkansas."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Beef Stock Cattle Grazing on Native Grass Rangeland in Excellent Condition

Photograph of two beef stock cattle grazing on native grass rangeland in excellent condition. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Native Grass Range. Range Class-Excellent Condition. Blackland Prairie Site. Land Capability Class I. 5-GP. Slight Erosion. Carrying capacity 25 head of mature beef stock on 100 acres early spring to late summer. Range Conservation measures practiced, controlled grazing, no burning, phosphate application. This native grassland has received good treatment throughout the years from previous owners.”
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Boggy River

Photograph of a fish caught on the Boggy River, Hugo, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BOX 67.0397]

Photograph is of two firemen controlling a fire hose that is spraying on a structure completely engulfed in flames from the inside and through the roof. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Are believed responsible for two weekend fires at the Goodland Indian Orphanage campus four miles southwest of Hugo."
Date: April 12, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Britt Willis

Photograph of the tombstone of "Old Britt Willis" in Doaksville Cemetery. The top of the tombstone lies on the ground in the foreground of the picture. The graves was transferred from Section X-Doaksville.
Date: February 3, 1984
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Broadway Street in Hugo

Photograph of Broadway Street in Hugo, Oklahoma. Saddled horses, horse-drawn wagons and an automobile can be seen on the unpaved street.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Building types

Photograph of a hay barn derived from a Quonset hut—concrete foundation and floor. Steel frame. Galvanized corrugated iron covering. An excellent long-lived structure. OK-10-658.
Date: July 20, 1952
Creator: Davis, D. O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Caddoan Pottery

Photograph of Caddoan pottery from the Red River in Choctaw County.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mitchell Byfield Studios
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Calves on Dallis Grass and White Clover

Photograph of young purebred bull calves on Dallis grass-white clover summer pasture. Through the last several years this field has come into a solid stand of Dallis grass and white clovers. Seeding has occurred mainly from droppings from areas previously established with Dallis grass and clovers. Also seeds have beebn spread by feeding Dallis grass-clover hay. One ton of lime each 8 years and 300 pounds of super-phosphates each 3 years are being applied to this field. This pasture, according to Mr. Wyatt, has a carrying capacity of a cow and a calf per acre. This farm unit consists of some 90 acres of Bermuda base pasture and 10 acres of Dallis grass pasture. The pasture supports some 50 purebred beef cows for some 10 months per year. Land Capability Class I 7-FC. Slight erosion.
Date: July 20, 1952
Creator: Davis, David O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cemetery

Photograph of a cemetery, Doaksville, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chickasaw Paying Party

Photograph of a Chickasaw Paying Party, Hugo, OK, September 1908.
Date: September 1908
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Choctaw Chief's House

Photograph of a scene at the reconstructed Choctaw Chief's House.
Date: October 3, 1993
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Choctaw Chief's House

Photograph of a scene at the reconstructed Choctaw Chief's House.
Date: October 3, 1993
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History