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[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0069]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Remains of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tubbs, blow (n) across the road and smashed when a tornado struck June 9 on Western Ave., midway between Oklahoma City and Norman."
Date: June 15, 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0034]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A grain elevator eight miles southeast of blackwell was demolished, several farm buildings were damaged, wheat was seriously damaged in a rain, wind, and hail storm which swept Kay county Wednesday night."
Date: 1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0030]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the kind of storm insurance you don't pay money to get, and that can't be explained or guaranteed. The picture taken on the Art Snow farm, 6 1 / 2 miles southwest of El Reno, shows the eccentricity of the storm which Sunday night tore up a large barn, scattering wreckage over a quarter section, but leaving the automobile, parked in the barn, unscratched."
Date: 1939
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0045]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The tornado which cut a swathe between Union City and Mustang ripped the above trees bare of foliage and wiped out the month-old farm home of the Walter Orrs which the trees had shaded."
Date: June 10, 1937
Creator: Hughes, William J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0031]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Storms - Tornadoes - Wynnewood, Oklahoma - 1934 - 200 left homeless - "The foresight of an unidentified motorist, who hurried into the city and gave warning that the tornado was approaching, probably saved the lives of many persons."
Date: 1934
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0058]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The huge church at Corn was unroofed but left fairly intact as a twister ripped through the town and played havoc with private homes. Colony was also hit."
Date: 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0053]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Curious visitors went to review the remains of the home owned by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tubbs, blown across the road and demolished when a tornado struck June 9, .. ."
Date: June 10, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0052]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "B. B. Leverich points to the northwesterly approach of the June 9 tornado which struck on Western Ave., midway between Oklahoma City and Norman. The wind not only wrecked the Leverich barn, shown here, but also destroyed three chicken houses and damaged a garage. The Leverich place is across the road SE from the Frank Tubbs home, demolished by the wind."
Date: June 10, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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