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[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0056]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Hail ranging up to the size of baseballs battered Gould Wednesday night on the heels of a tornado. E. Q. Anderson (shown here) , suffered one of the heaviest losses when the wind took the roof off his grocery store and left his stock exposed to the barrage of hail."
Date: May 19, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0063]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When C. D. Hendricks learned the storm was headed toward his barrack's home at the University north campus, he gathered his wife and two children to find a safer place. But it was too late. They had time to only lie down near the bed before the walls collapsed around them. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks managed to protect the two young children with their bodies. Luckily all escaped injury. Hendricks grabbed a piggy bank containing… more
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0073]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When a twister ripped through Gould in Harmon county Wednesday night the H. S. Beamland service station was directly in its path. The dotted line shows the pathes of two gasoline pumps that the wind ripped from in front of the station and tossed over the roof into an oil storage area at the rear of the station."
Date: May 19, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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