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[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0182]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All that was left standing of Capron's city hall after a tonado the city early Saturday was the vault. This general view shows the vault in the foreground."
Date: April 15, 1939
Creator: Cauthen, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0030]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the kind of storm insurance you don't pay money to get, and that can't be explained or guaranteed. The picture taken on the Art Snow farm, 6 1 / 2 miles southwest of El Reno, shows the eccentricity of the storm which Sunday night tore up a large barn, scattering wreckage over a quarter section, but leaving the automobile, parked in the barn, unscratched."
Date: 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0181]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Scenes like this were common in Capron Saturday after a tornado the business section. Here workmen are salvaging what they can from a grocery store."
Date: April 15, 1939
Creator: Cauthen, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5571]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Once this wreckage was the farm home of Oscar Harzman, 45-year-old World Was Veteran, southwest of Alva. In it died Harzman, his wife, president of the American Legion auxillary at Alva, and their 20-year-old daughter, Louise, sophmore at Northeast State Teachers College, Alva. Three other persons died in the vicinity."
Date: 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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