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F.B. Severs Cash Store, Okmulgee, Indian Territory

Description: Photograph of the F.B. Severs Cash Store, Okmulgee, I.T. Photo was taken by John K. Hillers on May 9, 1875. Frederick Ballard Severs was a prominent rancher and entrepreneur in Indian Territory. He was the first postmasters in Okmulgee. He helped develop Okmulgee and Muskogee by constructing many of the business buildings, and he built and assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Muskogee.
Date: May 9, 1875
Creator: John K. Hillers
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0196

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of wreckage from a building fire. Signs and other buildings are seen in the street beyond the debris. Caption: "Wreckage from the disastrous fire in Bartlesville"
Date: October 9, 1964
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0560]

Description: Photograph of a Shawnee Milling Company building being sprayed by a fire hose, while a crowd of men looks on. Photograph taken during daylight. Caption: "Firemen battle blaze in Shawnee."
Date: October 9, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

2012.201.B0097.0402

Description: Photograph of a child sitting on a man's lap. Caption: "Young David Thomas Brown, who will be all of two years old Christmas day, and Lloyd Booth Jr., oldest of the 19 Oklahoma City Times Christmas babies, who will be 16 years old, had a lot in common, surprisingly enough, when they met to talk over the matter of what they want for Christmas."
Date: December 9, 1937
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0363.0084]

Description: Photograph is of two men dressed in baseball uniforms. One is holding a bat and another is holding a baseball mitt. They are talking to each other. Caption: "John Grodzicki- left, Hal Epps -right."
Date: May 9, 1948
Creator: East, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0317.0328]

Description: Photograph is of two men wearing baseball uniforms. One man is holding a bat with both hands. Another man is leaning on a wall with one hand to the side of the man with the bat. Caption: "One of the most ardent rooters of the Oklahoma City Indians in little Lou Garrison, right, a grandson of Lee Coffer, the groundskeeper at local Texas league park."
Date: September 9, 1949
Creator: East, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0320

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a burning building. Caption: "Thousands of persons dressed in their Sunday best watched Sunday while fire destroyed a brick building which housed Enid's largest theater and caused heavy damage to an adjacent law office."
Date: March 9, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0320.0177]

Description: A daylight photograph of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, native and Oklahoma State University golfer, Karen Edwards sitting in a golf cart. Red and orange wax pencil editing marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Oklahoma State golfer Karen Edwards."
Date: July 9, 1974
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0199

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a fire hose spraying water at a destroyed building after a fire. Caption: "Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water were still being trained on the Grey Building late Saturday"
Date: October 9, 1964
Creator: Heaton, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0306

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a building with a fire truck nearby. Caption: "Officials of the First Methodist Church, destroyed by a $250,000 fire Monday, will meet Tuesday to determine a temporary meeting place for the congregation and for plans for future building."
Date: December 9, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 66.0268]

Description: Photograph displays several firemen on scene after a fire. One of the firemen has his back to the camera, displaying the letters O,F, and D and his name. The windows of the building are shattered and men are working both inside and outside the building. The closest two firemen are holding a large rectangular object and appear to be boarding up the windows.
Date: February 9, 1972
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0185]

Description: Officials approaching a military plane to find out what when wrong. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WHY? Military Air Transport Service Wednesday wanted to know why this C-97 had landing gear troubles Tuesday threatening the lives of the six-man crew. The pilot executed what the Air Force called "a beautiful landing" in spite of the difficulty. The crew walked away unharmed. Tinker`s crash crews had spread foam on the runways in an attempt t… more
Date: August 9, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0346]

Description: Photograph of a sign featuring Smokey the Bear, used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. The text of the sign says, "Today's Forest Fire Danger: Severe." There are trees in the background. Caption: "Smokey the Bear flashes the right sign for forest fire conditions in southeastern Oklahoma. The sign is near the Oklahoma Forestry Fire Control division headquarters at Broken Bow where officials have warned that conditions still are severe although fires have lessened."
Date: April 9, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0223

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoldering trailer parked on the side of the road with two men standing nearby. Caption: "Smoke drifts from this $4,000 trailer load of mattresses"
Date: September 9, 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0415.0160]

Description: Photograph is of two women standing as they put pins on the shoulder straps of his military uniform as he watches them. Caption: "Joe Bryan Ferrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest S. Ferrell, 3505 Marilyn Dr. dons his new gold bars with the assistance of his best girls, Penny Duncan, a WAF from New York stationed at Tinker air force base, and his mother. Ferrell received his commission as a second lieutenant in the air force at mid year military convocation at Oklahoma A&M. Ferrell was commander o… more
Date: February 9, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fields Brothers Farm Contour Furrowed Field/Chickasha Project

Description: Photograph of the Fields Brothers Farm contour furrowed field holding windblown snow. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Newly constructed contour furrows in native pasture holding windblown snow in furrows. These furrows were constructed with long wing terracing plow.“
Date: April 9, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[2012.201.B0960B.0187]

Description: Photograph is of two men, one in a police officer uniform, and the other in casual clothing with a large protective mitt on his arm. Between the two men is a German Shepherd dog on a leash held by the police officer charging at the man with the protective mitt on. This appears to be a training exercise.
Date: September 9, 1968
Creator: Wood, Tony
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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