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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0001]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This car contained an entire family killed in the storm, a man, his wife and their infant. Pathetic reminder of the tragedy is in the white baby basket and basinette laying outside the machine."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0028]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Storms - Tornadoes - Oklahoma - 1942 - Guymon, OK. - Oklahoma Electric & Water Co., plenty of ventilation - This picture taken next day, others immediately after storm."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0002]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Of the 400 Will Rogers field soldiers rushed to the storm area on Southwest Twenty-ninth street Friday night, the one pictured was patroling damaged homes while his fellows probed debris for dead and injured."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0010]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "With awesome caprice, Friday night's tornadic winds stripped this storm area of its leaves and clothed it with bedsprings wrenched from some wrecked home."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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