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[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0003]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The storm which struck southwest Capitol Hill hit at the edge of the city, this map reveals. Blacked out areas are where damage and deaths were heaviest."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1187]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There was a young tornado out at Fair park during the height of the storm Wednesday night, and, when it was over, this is how the livestock pavilion looked."
Date: March 15, 1945
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0009]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In this mess of twisted steel and wires, Col. Earl H. DeFord, commandant at Will Rogers field, had been riding only a short time before the storm struck. Corporal Ernest W. Montgomery (Swiss, MO.) , driver of the army car, .. . returning to the base (from depositing the colonel) when the tornado caught and killed him."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1194]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thursday afternoon's tornado through the south end of the Oklahoma City field lifted a derrick from the Cities Service Oil No. 8 Button well, crumpled it over the office of the company's Button gasoline plant, in SW of 19-11n-2w."
Date: 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1188]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These two B-29s survived many combat bombing runs in the pacific only to be tied into a knot by a 350-mile-an-hour tornado that struck Tinker airforce base Thursday night, damaging 84 warplanes."
Date: March 25, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0001]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This car contained an entire family killed in the storm, a man, his wife and their infant. Pathetic reminder of the tragedy is in the white baby basket and basinette laying outside the machine."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1136]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This grocery store on SE 29 was in the path in the path of Thursday tornado which swept across the eastern part of Oklahoma County."
Date: April 12, 1945
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1180]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fury of the short-lived tornado that cut across Tinker airforce base Thursday is shown in the jumblea steel matting ripped from the ground framed by a damaged B-29."
Date: March 25, 1948
Creator: Hale, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1185]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The picture at right shows the wreckage of the Alton Kerr home, route 4, on the Spencer road between NW 23 and NE 10."
Date: March 21, 1949
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1192]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two Tinker field sergeants and a 16-year-old Civil Air Patrol cadet rode out the tornado in the shattered ruins of the control tower shown below."
Date: March 20, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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