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[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0973]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Henry Skinner, one of the dozens of Woodward tornado victims who want to rebuild its soon as the remains of their houses are cleared away, searches through the wreckage of her two story home for usable articles."
Date: April 23, 1947
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0918]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Life must go on and Ruthie Robinson, daughter of B. H. Robinson, grows content when the familiar bottle of milk appears at the Community Center in Woodward."
Date: April 11, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0972]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The seach for the dead and injured began immediately after Wednesday night tornado and still has continuing Thursday at Woodward."
Date: April 10, 1947
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0939]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Clothnig for tornado victims poured into Woodward all day Thursday and Friday. Somebody was needed to sort it for size and sex."
Date: April 10, 1947
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0908]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Every tornado leaves its share of freaks. This home was rocked back and forth by the fury of the storm but it still stands, although leaning heavily to the east."
Date: May 8, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0979]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Jack Engleman, shwon driving a tent stake on her temporary home, doesn't like to think about the towering elm trees that were damaged in the April 9 tornado."
Date: May 11, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0956]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Red Gross Director Robert Edson, confers with Paul Reed, Oklahoma State commissioner of public safety, and State Senator Orval Grim, about the pogress of relief operatrions in Woodward, Woods, Ellis and other Oklahoma counties affected by the recent tornado. Standing in the background, left to right are R.R. Russell, superintednent of schools here, Upton Porter, formerly of this city, now residing in Colorado, D… more
Date: April 12, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0065]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Typical of the dazed residents who pawed through acres of debris in an effort to find a few personal mementos or belongings was Mrs. B. L. Zimmerman."
Date: June 1, 1947
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0965]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These were not cracked up in landing. They were planes staked out on the Woodward Municipal airport when the wind struck, and piled planes into eachother and the building."
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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