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[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0890]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Disregarded by the big blow was an electric fan at the home of Walter Wright, caretaker of the Elks club hall north of Shawnee."
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0900]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Windblown chicken, center, who lost tailfeathers to the twister, scratches in bewilderment amidst wreckage in the yard of the Robert Knesek jr. farm, east of Meeker."
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0887]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tornado wreckage viewers Sunday found the stove of the Shawnee Elks clubhouse dangling precariously on the sagging second floor of the building, left."
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0888]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tornado wreckage viewers Sunday found the stove of the Shawnee Elks clubhouse dangling precariously on the sagging second floor of the building, left."
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0880]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Thirty state communities were hit by a rash of tornadoes Saturday and left a toll of dead, injured and property damage amounting to more than $1 million."
Date: 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.1170]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two automobiles lie squashed and almost hidden under part of a 90-by-80-foot section of roofing blown off a business building in the 900 block SW 59 by a tornado Wednesday afternoon."
Date: September 29, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7198]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A roaring twister slammed into a shopping center at SW 59 and Western at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday damaging five stores and 10 homes. Damage estimates range as high as $100,000. No one was hurt in the storm which hit without warning, moved over a 3-block area and then disappeared. It was accompained by driving rains and lightning. A 90-feet section of roofing was lifted from two business firms, twisted and dropped into the st… more
Date: September 29, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5460]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This Lincoln County city crackled Wednesday to the sound of bulldozers, winch trucks, axes and hammers as volunteer workers pitched in to help tornado stricken neighbors rebuild and cleanup from the ravages of last Saturday night's twister. More than 250 men, women and high school students were toiling under a bright May sun as the task of cleaning up the damage wrought by Mother Nature got well underway...Monday night… more
Date: May 4, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7199]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A sudden twister Wednesday afternoon left ths wreckage at Brambles Hardware and Feed store at SW59 and Western. A 90-foot section of roof was lifted in the air and dropped in the street and a cement block wall crumpled like a stack of dominoes. No one was hurt in the twister, which did estimated damage of $100,000 in a three-block area."
Date: September 29, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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