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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0291]

Description: Photograph is of a large group of people in the street observing and helping to spray water from fire hoses on multiple buildings that are burning on a main street. Debris, rubble and water is in the street in front of the crowd.
Date: September 14, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0422.0222]

Description: Photograph is of man in a baseball uniform and hat about to step on home plate. Another man, the catcher, is stepping closer to home plate. A man in a black suit and baseball hat is standing behind both the catcher and runner. Caption: "This force play at home plate in the second inning brought on a rhubarb between Indian infielder Joe Damato and plate umpire Don Fisher. Damato was called out at home after Beaumont third baseman Frank Tormay floved a grounder and tossed to catcher Mickey Livins… more
Date: April 14, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0290]

Description: Photograph is of a multiple story building that has smoke rising out of the where the roof once was. The windows are missing and the brick has burnt marks. A man is outside the building near a car by a fence.
Date: September 14, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0412

Description: Night time fire engine ladder to upper story of burning builidng. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Some hotel guests escaped on fire department ladder units."
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0964]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pileup-- Two people received apparent minor injuries Sunday afternoon in a five car accident on the Northeast Expressway, one-fourth of a mile south of Hefner Road, Oklahoma City police said."
Date: November 14, 1981
Creator: Buehner, Jeff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0393]

Description: Photograph is of a structure burning to the ground completely engulfed in flames and smoke. Debris is surrounding the structure as it burns. Caption: "Nobody will park between signs at a time like this."
Date: January 14, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0488]

Description: Six fire fighters putting out fire daytime by two automobiles. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen fight the auto parts store blaze."
Date: August 14, 1969
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0289]

Description: Photograph is of a group of unidentified people observing a fire of a multiple story brick storage building. Tires are strewn on the ground around the men observing the fire. A smaller group of men are holding a fire hose spraying on the top corner of the building. Smoke is rising from where the roof once existed. part of the walls have collapsed into the center of the structure.
Date: September 14, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0423

Description: Four story Hotel, burned out, street view with fire trucks and fire fighters. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen pour water on the Midland hotel in Lawton Thursday after blaze broke out in the southwest portion of the building."
Date: September 14, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0422.0223]

Description: Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform on the baseball inner field pointing to a spot on the field with a man in a black suit and baseball glove on his hand standing with him looking where the other man is pointing. Caption: "Damato claimed Livingston failed to touch the plate and attempts to say so in the lower picture."
Date: April 14, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0287]

Description: Photograph is a large group of people observing a burning brick building with smoke billowing from the top.Firemen are spraying hoses in the background on the building. Photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "DOWNTOWN DUNCAN was full of smoke and people Sunday as a $500,000 fire swept through a half block of business. This picture taken by Rollin Cox, an executive with Halliburton Oil Cementing Co., looks north at the unit block of North street from the busy intersection of Ninth and Mai… more
Date: September 14, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0366.0059]

Description: Photograph is of a woman wearing a sleeveless white shirt and a skirt standing next to a man in a Navy recruiting uniform holding a sign about recruiting while the woman puts his Navy hat on. Caption: "Mistletoe company Queen Patricia Stewart tries Lowell Evans' hat for size."
Date: May 14, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0308.0085]

Description: Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform leaning over looking at a baseball in his hand while another set of hands is gesturing two circles next to each other. Caption: "Bobby Howard, left, whose third straight single broke up the first game of the Oklahoma City-San Antonio doubleheader here Sunday night in favor of the Indians, gives pitcher Bart DiMaggio the no-hit, no-run signs after the latter beat the Missions 1-0 in the eighth inning of what was scheduled to be a seven-inning opener."
Date: August 14, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0454]

Description: Photograph is of a pile of brick, burnt wood and other structural items in front of a building that is missing its windows and doors due to a fire. Caption: "Piles of debris provided a drab picture of the Crown Heights Drug Store Thursday morning after a $25,000 fire swept the building at NW 36 and Shartel."
Date: September 14, 1967
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0311.0384]

Description: Photograph is of three men casually dressed sitting and leaning in bleachers. Caption: "Some of the major league scouts who watched Oklahoma State and Nebraska Tuesday were Hugh Alexander (left) and Doug Gassaway of the Philadelphia Phillies (above) and Herschel Martin of the New York Mets (Leaning forward), Danny Doyle of Boston Red Sox (center) and lee Anthony of the Texas Rangers (bottom left)."
Date: May 14, 1974
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0989]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Officers, aided by a police helicopter, probe the south shore area of Lake Overholser late Thursday in a hunt discontinued early today after investigators learned only three persons were in a car which slammed into a tree near the lake."
Date: November 14, 1980
Creator: Grier, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0292]

Description: Photograph is of three groups of unidentified people each holding open fire hoses on a multiple level building that smoke is billowing out of the top. The buildings appear to be on a main street and the cafe is the closest seen in the photo that is completely consumed by smoke and missing a roof due to an active fire.
Date: September 14, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Owl Creek Detention Reservoir Site #1

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of Owl Creek Detention Reservoir site #1 and the surrounding area. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Owl Creek Ok-SCD-13-Wa.2. Site #1. Detention Reservoir. Drainage area – 500 acres. 81.0 acres in cultivation; 334.0 acres in pasture, range, woods; 85.0 acres in abandoned cropland – revegetated. Excellent cover on grassland provides silt screen for water from cultivated land. Note all cultivated fields were terraced when picture was taken. Permanent storage: 1.… more
Date: July 14, 1948
Creator: Ginter Photo Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Owl Creek Detention Reservoir Site #4

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of Owl Creek Detention Reservoir site #4 and the surrounding area. A road runs vertically on the left side of the photograph. Furthermore, a small house stands next to the road in the upper left. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Ok-SCD-13-Wa.2 – Owl Creek Detention Reservoir Site #4. Redish [sic] Prairie Land Resource group. 70 acres in cultivation, 220 acres in pasture, range, woods; 10 acres in abandoned cropland. Excellent cover on grassland. In foreground … more
Date: July 14, 1948
Creator: Ginter Photo Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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