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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7309]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Only scattered bits of lumber and stone mark the spot where four persons died Tuesday when a vicious tornado struck the farm home on the outskirts of Gens in eastern Oklahoma. Ernest Henry, who lives nearby, surveys what was once the hone of the Ted Jenkins Family. Jenkins, 47, was killed, along with his wife, Norma, also 47; a daughter, Bonnie, 14, and a son, Darrel, 8. One daughter, Helen, 23, was spared. She is in ser… more
Date: January 22, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7371]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Tornadic Death Struck without warning at farm homes near Konawa over the weekend. In the shamblesof the Haskell Campbell home, there was this deathly-still evidence of the violence of the storm. bruised doll rested in a broken dollbuggy-playthings of 8 year-old Nancy Campbell. Nancy was seriously injured in the storm. Her daddy, Haskell, 47, and mother, Jewell, 43, both were killed. Picture at left shows other Campb… more
Date: 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7373]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Tornadic death struck without warning at farm homes near Konawa over the weekend. In the shamblesof the Haskell Campbell home, there was this deathly-still evidence of the violence of the storm. A bruised doll rested in a broken dollbuggy-playthings of 8 year-old Nancy Campbell. Nancy was seriously injured in the storm. Her daddy, Haskell, 47, and mother, Jewell, 43, both were killed."
Date: September 14, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7372]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Haskell Campbell moved his family to a farm near Konawa three years ago, his first project was to build a storm shelter. Returning to his native community from a stay in California, Campbell remembered the violent Oklahoma weather and took steps to protect his family. A scant 25 steps from the front door of the farm home five miles northwest of Konawa, he constructed a strudy underground concrete shelter "just in c… more
Date: September 14, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7374]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Watching salvage operations at the home of her niece Sunday was Mrs. Jennie Zoeller, (seated) while other relatives of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Semtner inspected the ruins of the Semtner home."
Date: September 14, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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