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The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of rescuers searching for bodies in the destruction on East Main Street, roughly 100 yards from the explosion, after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK. Seventeen African-American bodies were found in the ruins.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of Ardmore Firemen and a fire truck after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of destruction on Main Street, east of the Santa Fe tracks, after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of a tangled mesh of wires on Main Street and the Whittington Hotel, on the right, after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK. Seven unrecognizable bodies were found in the area.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of the Union Passenger Station after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK. The Station was 300 feet north of the explosion and several people were injured, but none fatally.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of the main line of the Santa Fe tracks, looking east, where several people were burned to death after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK. The remains of the building used by the Dawson Brothers and Ladd & Davidson can be seen in the background.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of smoke rising from the burning Santa Fe Freight Station and the sole remaining wall of the two-story Pennington Wholesale Grocery Co. Building after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of South Caddo Street showing the east wall of the Whittington Hotel and the rear end of the demolished Pennington Building after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK. Several unrecognizable bodies were found in the area.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of Main Street and the burning remains of the Santa Fe Freight Depot and Pennington Building after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK. Seven unrecognizable bodies were found in the Depot and three in the Pennington Building.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of a Ford automobile, under debris, in front of the Waldo Hotel on South Caddo Street after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of South Caddo Street showing the east wall of the Whittington Hotel after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of burring remains of the Bleeding District after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK. The cigar girls escaped unharmed, but twenty African-American bodies were found in the ruins.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of the southwest corner of the Whittington Hotel after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ardmore Disaster
Photograph of the tank car that exploded, I.N.T.X. 8051, and other wreckage in the Santa Fe yard after the Ardmore Disaster, where a tank car with 250 barrels of gasoline exploded, Ardmore, OK.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Ardmore High School Orchestra
Photograph of the members of the Ardmore High School Orchestra, Ardmore, OK. S. M. Lowenstein, Director, third row center.
Date:
1914~
Creator:
Webb, Ran
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Ardmore, OK
Photograph of the Confederate Soldier's Home in Ardmore, OK, July 21, 1916.
Date:
July 21, 1916
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dyer Brothers Transfer moving the Craddock Brothers grocery store building.
Dyer Brothers Transfer moving the Craddock Brothers grocery store building. The men and team of animals are seen moving the one story building down a muddy street in Ardmore. Trolley tracks can be seen in the road. Photograph taken in 1914 on the 22nd day of an unknown month.
Date:
1914
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Edgar and Joseph Benson Owen
Photograph of Edgar and Joseph Benson Owen in Ardmore, OK, c. 1910-1918.
Date:
1910~/1918~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Governor Lee Cruce
Photograph of "Driving the 'Golden Spike' on the East-West Railroad from Ardmore, 1913." With sledge hammers, L to R: Governor Lee Cruce & Jake Hammon. Photo by Howard Fonville, Ardmore, OK, 1913.
Date:
1913~
Creator:
Fonville, Howard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Healdton Oil Field
Photograph of the Healdton Oil Field, Wirt, OK. Photo by FH Wallace, Wirt, OK, Nov. 20, 1916.
Date:
November 20, 1916
Creator:
Wallace, F. H.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
J.A. Madden Family's Victorian Style Home, Ardmore, Oklahoma
Photograph of Victorian style, two-story house; a man shown mowing the yard, a woman seated on upstairs balcony, children on a wrap-around porch and children with a dog standing beside the porch.
Date:
1910~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Ohio Cities Gas Plant No. 3
Ohio Cities Gas Plant No. 3 near the Healdton Oil Field, Healdton, OK.
Date:
September 21, 1919
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0366.0284]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ruins of Pennington grocery"
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
Fonville
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0366.0285]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
September 27, 1915
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History