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[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.
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.
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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0005]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the huge refrigerator trailor of the Clanton Transportation Co., which a soldier from Will Rogers field saw picked up from the highway and dropped upside down in the ditch where it still rested."
Date: June 13, 1942
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0006]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Big trees in the storm area which Friday were wearing their mantles of summer green, Saturday were stripped bare like the one shown here."
Date: June 13, 1942
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1163]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Disaster workers Saturday were dragging this ditch in an effort to find the body of a woman believe to have been with a man whose body was found in a nearby automobile."
Date: June 13, 1942
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0065]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Typical of the dazed residents who pawed through acres of debris in an effort to find a few personal mementos or belongings was Mrs. B. L. Zimmerman."
Date: June 1, 1947
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0648]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This aerial photographs shows the freakish power of a tornado as a car has ben carried into the top of a demolished house along the path of the storm."
Date: June 1, 1947
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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