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[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0003]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The storm which struck southwest Capitol Hill hit at the edge of the city, this map reveals. Blacked out areas are where damage and deaths were heaviest."
Date: 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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.B1215.0056]

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
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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0070]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The pumps were still standing, but the filling station was in no condition to do business when the destructive tornado had dealt its lethal blow to Pawhuska Saturday. Wreckage of a once prosperous filling station is piled around the pumps."
Date: 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1187]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There was a young tornado out at Fair park during the height of the storm Wednesday night, and, when it was over, this is how the livestock pavilion looked."
Date: March 15, 1945
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0009]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In this mess of twisted steel and wires, Col. Earl H. DeFord, commandant at Will Rogers field, had been riding only a short time before the storm struck. Corporal Ernest W. Montgomery (Swiss, MO.) , driver of the army car, .. . returning to the base (from depositing the colonel) when the tornado caught and killed him."
Date: 1942
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.B1215.0192]

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.
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.B1215.1194]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thursday afternoon's tornado through the south end of the Oklahoma City field lifted a derrick from the Cities Service Oil No. 8 Button well, crumpled it over the office of the company's Button gasoline plant, in SW of 19-11n-2w."
Date: 1945
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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