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[2012.201.B0317.0366]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing a suit and tie, leaned over a table piled with stacks of paper. He is looking down smiling. Caption: "Helping tabulate information on piles of YMCA junior baseball questionnaires"
Date: January 20, 1958
Creator: Gumm, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0183]

Description: Plane crash near some trees and a creek. The plane is mostly intact with little damage. Photo taken in the daytime. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "VACATION ENDED for members of the Ray Lynch family, 2115 NW 20, when their plane overshot the runway at Expressway Junction Airport, 3101 NE 63 and crashed in a creek bed Saturday noon. Mrs. Lynch received pulled pack muscles, but Lynch and their three children escaped injury. The family was ret… more
Date: July 20, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1147]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MERRY GO ROUND RIDE was not so merry for George Cantrell and Jack Cantrell as the car they were towing caused both cars to turn completely around."
Date: September 20, 1973
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0248]

Description: An interior photograph taken at the scene of a school fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image captures firemen through broken glass window panes at James Monroe Elementary School. Caption: "City Firemen framed by a heat-shattered window, begin clean-up operations in one of the school rooms gutted by fire Monday night."
Date: March 20, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0094]

Description: Photograph is of a single story brick structure that is fully consumed by flames in the interior and through the roof of the structure. The sign for the building appears to be falling into the roof of the building. Flames are reaching towards the sky out of where the roof was and where the windows and doors once were are replaced with flames and smoke.
Date: December 20, 1945
Creator: Gillette, Lee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0640]

Description: Photograph of smoldering ruins of a building on a street. Front and roof of building is missing due to fire damage. Cinders and rubble is strewn across the sidewalk. photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Maysville started to drill first well Monday for a new water supply. The Volunteer fire department has been expecting delivery of a new pumper fire truck any day. Tuesday night, firemen strung hose to fight a small blaze in the Granada theater, but nothing happened when they turned … more
Date: January 20, 1948
Creator: Meeks, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0250]

Description: A nighttime photograph taken at the scene of a school fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows firemen outside James Monroe Elementary School as smoke escapes from inside the building.
Date: March 20, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0642]

Description: Photograph of firemen fighting an active fire consuming three buildings on a main street of Maysville, Oklahoma town. In the forefront of the photo is a crowd of people observing the firemen dosing a fire with a hose. Photo was taken in the night time. Caption: "Maysville, Okla. fire"
Date: January 20, 1948
Creator: Meeks, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0423.0177]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing two baseball caps sideways on his head, smoking a pipe, and reading the newspaper in a suit and tie. Caption: "A Fitzpatrick mystery- Old Hawkshaw himself, solving the daily budget of murders and kidnappings and the mystery of how ballplayers get along in the winter months, is Jack Fitzpatrick, former Oklahoma City Indian catcher."
Date: January 20, 1938
Creator: Mumblow, Milt
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0298.0089]

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of two women with a lantern. Caption: "Most happy to oblige, and thereby gaining an evening of fun, were guests receiving the invitation headed "Hayden Abney and Cindy Brown want you to come for Hot Dogs in the Hollow."
Date: June 20, 1970
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Vetch-Rye Soil Building Cover Crop on Clarence Adams and Son Field

Description: Photograph of Hubert Adams, and W. T. Fountain, soil conservationist, showing off vetch growth. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Hubert Adams, 2. W. T. Fountain, soil conservationist. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Vetch-Rye soil building cover crop. Spring 1952. Land Capability Class III land. 6-GP Soil Unit. Moderately severe erosion cropland. Field planted to Austrian winterpeas [sic] in Fall 1950. 150 pounds super phosphate applied at planting time. Austri… more
Date: July 20, 1952
Creator: Davis, D. O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Protected by Levee

Description: Photograph of land protection via levee ½ miles east of Binger and looking south from a highway bridge on highway 152 on Curtis Opitz’s land. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Looking south from highway bridge on highway 152 east of Binger, Oklahoma [sic]. The field on the right is protected by a levee. This field was of little use due to overflows before the levee was constructed.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Retired Cultivated Field

Description: Photograph of the proper land use of a retired cultivated field. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Planting of bluestem grass on a retired cultivated field. Old terraces are still noticeable in the field. This land is highly erodible and should be farmed with protective measures.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sugar Creek Sedimentation Damage

Description: Photograph of sediment damage that has caused land to go from cultivable to willows along Sugar Creek and highway 281. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Looking east from bridge on highway 281 showing sediment damage that has caused land along Sugar Creek to go from cultivation to willows.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sugar Creek Main Channel

Description: Photograph of the main channel of Sugar Creek south of Gracemont. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Main channel of Sugar Creek which crosses Highway 281, south of Gracemont, Oklahoma. This land was Class I and is now useless because it is covered with silt, Bermudagrass and willows. It needs protection from floodwaters to be made to produce at its maximum.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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