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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.B1215.0195]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At Meeker Tuesday night, girls teams from Meeker and Agra were playing a softball game. The first inning was just over when everyone fled to get out of the way of an approaching tornado."
Date: May 18, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0192]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A dozen members of the Agra highschool girls' softball team ran for this bus when rain broke up their game with the Meeker team. Second later the bus was rooling across the ball diamond. It came to rest in this position."
Date: May 18, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0183]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Arnold Grocery in Longdale was still a heap of spoiled food and sons in Blaine county. Longdale's only fatality was 14-year-old Larry Arnold who sleeping in store building when it collapsed."
Date: April 1, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
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.B1215.0203]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above is the home where Harry Carter, 50, was fatally injured The house belonged to his sister Mrs. Maude Smith, Carter, the fourth victim of the Canton-Longdale tornado, died Friday morning in Watonga hospital. Cecil Gray, Canton postmaster, is standing in the doorway."
Date: April 1, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0204]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Agraphic story of the tornado that ripped through Canton and nearby Longdale Wednesday is told in the above picture, showing a home reduced to kinding wood. At left is an unidentified man poking in the ruins in Canton."
Date: March 30, 1949
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0014]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is part of the $200,000 damage from the Wednesday morning tornado that hit the southern residential section of Blackwell. (Vern Finley home shown) ."
Date: 1949
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.B1215.0202]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Local Salvation Army workers were on the job in a hurry at Canton Wednesday. In the picture, left to right, are Mrs. J. T. Haigler, Mrs. Lee Reay, Mrs. James Haigler and Mrs. Doyle Haigler serving ceffee and doughnuts to Cpl. Warren P. Marsh, Enid airforce base."
Date: 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0191]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This converted barracks was completely unroofed by the tornado that struck the north naval base at Norman Saturday afternoon."
Date: 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

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0189]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Arthur Lopez, who lives at Boyd House on the university south campus, dove into a ditch for protection when he saw the tornado headed his way. He was thankful he didn't stay with his car. This is the he found it after the storm."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0193]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "From the control tower over the Westhelmer field administration building on University north campus, the radio antenna points grotesquely over buildings destoyed by Saturday's tornado."
Date: 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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