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[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0462]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Definite assurance that the Lions club of Altus will assume complete responsible for the cancer drive in Altus brought a real smile from Hugh Cotner , center above, who has been named Jackson country chairman for the cancer drive."
Date: May 8, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1092.0564]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "While farmers in Kingfisher and other countless along the mid-state route of the Cimarron river prayed for rain on their parched wheatfields the Cimarron (above) was running wasted water Tuesday almost bank full through that same area, from rains up the watershed."
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0178]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The tornado which stuck east of Hennessey made almost a cylinder of this 36-inch, woven wire fence, which was ripped for more than a half-mile and tossed half that distance into another field"
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412.0024]

Description: Caption: "O. C. Fash of the First National bank of Hennessey, who also writes hail insurance on crops, really had a good example Monday in this wheat field three miles east of Hennessey, which hail and a tornado stripped to the ground like a neatly mowed lawn."
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1054.0547]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Machinery used on the Nebraska farms can't play football and that is why the Univerity of Nebraska Football team has made such a poor showing in its conference games in the Big Seven in the last few years."
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5594]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wire fences near Hennessey Monday showed up with beards of what hail and a tornado Sunday night stripped fields clean east of the town. Hundreds of acres were left bare by the storm, and not all the wheat tops were found on fences. Where the rest went is a mystery. For the story of this thatched fence and the field behind it see page 7."
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5595]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The pile of lumber and debris, left, was a grananry with nearly 400 bushels of Holdover wheat and some grain until Sunday night's tornado smacked the farm of Albert Ricks east of Hennessey. Sitting on what is left or their piano, left"
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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