Resource Type

BASEMENT BOX 67.0108

Photograph taken during daylight of crumbling building wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Walls of the Oliver and Brown stores were condemned as unsafe after the fire."
Date: October 28, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0110

Photograph taken during daylight of people managing a smoldering fire. Buildings have been reduced to charred wreckage.
Date: October 28, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0111

Photograph taken during daylight of building exteriors destroyed by fire.
Date: October 28, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0514]

A daylight photograph showing a gas well fire near Mooreland in Woodward County, Oklahoma, being combated by firefighter Red Adair. Orange wax pencil crop marks are visible on the image. Caption: "SPEWING GAS WELL near Mooreland continued to burn out of control Thursday despite attempts by firefighter Red Adair to curb the blazing well which has been burning since earlier this month."
Date: November 23, 1973
Creator: Bergdall, Calvin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0590

Photograph taken during daylight of men putting out building fires. Two men stand nearby.
Date: February 4, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0591

Photograph of two men, one with a microphone. Taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 28, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0592

Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters spraying water at a building fire. Caption: "A blaze that devestated downtown Woodward was finally brought under control Monday afternoon after destroying two department stores and two lodge halls and damaging four other stores."
Date: April 18, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0593]

A smoke or dust-filled daylight photograph showing a fireman and a modified wrecker truck involved in the post-fire demolition of Frost's Department Store.
Date: April 18, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0594]

Photograph of the destroyed front of Foster Department Store. Part of the brick wall of the structure has collapsed in to the street. The roof and all the inside of the building has been consumed by fire and destroyed. This photograph was taken in the day time.
Date: April 18, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0595]

A daylight photograph showing civilians assisting firemen with fire hoses, as other citizens observe smoke at Frost's Department Store.
Date: April 18, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0596]

A smoke or dust-filled daylight photograph showing a fireman and a modified wrecker truck involved in the post-fire demolition of Frost's Department Store.
Date: April 18, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0678]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "MEDICAL PERSONNEL unload three children of the Joseph L. Randall Family, of Woodard, who were injured in a head-on collision east of Woodard Monday. Transported to Oklahoma City by a FT. Sill military helicopter, the children's parents were killed in the two-car crash. The driver of the other vehicle was also killed."
Date: October 13, 1975
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1085]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Woodward"
Date: July 19, 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1086]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Woodward"
Date: July 19, 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1087]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HELICOPTER CRASH killing two Woodward men Saturday left only a mass of metal on the Woodward street on the south side of the county courthouse. Ken Dale Martin, 33, pilot of the helicopter, and Leslie E. Martin, 30, the passenger were reported flying to Oklahoma City Saturday night when the craft approached the courthouse and plunged down to the street."
Date: July 19, 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0273]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TUMBLED LIKE MATCH STICKS, 36 cars of a Santa Fe freight train were derailed in Woodward Monday, closing the line temporarily, as well as the street, above."
Date: February 19, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0274]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "36 FREIGHT CARS PILE-UP NEAR HOUSE - Derailment Too Close For Comfort---- "I saw the cars coming and I just knew one was going right through the house." This was the reaction of Mrs. Al Ackley, whose backyard was suddenly full of jammed-up freight cars about 8:40 a.m. Monday in a Santa Fe derailment"
Date: February 19, 1962
Creator: Ivy Coffey / Photographer Unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0275]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Back yard of Mrs. Al Ackley suddenly was full of wrecked freight cars in Woodward Monday"
Date: February 19, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0276]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wreckage piled on the Santa Fe tracks at Woodward Monday when an eastbound Santa Fe train was derailed. The lead car of the 36 derailed freight cars, many loaded with potash, stopped about 10 feet short of the Al Ackley home near the right of way."
Date: February 19, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0308]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two crews speed work on clearing track for crack trains."
Date: November 5, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0076.0225]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 2, 1993
Creator: McDaniel, David
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0076.0229]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: September 5, 1983
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0076.0230]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "They say you can never go home-but don't tell Milt Bassett that. He graduated from Woodard High School"
Date: October 8, 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0096.0310]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Russell Boley, 19, confessed slayer of parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Boley"
Date: February 5, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History