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[Photograph 2012.201.B0121.0419]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the new health building at Camp Classen -- A new health building and renovated plumbing system await boys attending Camp Classen this summer."
Date: May 26, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0925]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This group of storm stricken residents is shown gathered in emergency relief headquarters at Blackwell seeking aid and information after being blown out of their homes Wednesday night."
Date: May 26, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0930]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A hopeless tangle of wreckage is all that is left of the home at left which was caught in the path of the death-dealing tornado which ripped through Blackwell Wednesday night."
Date: May 26, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0932]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This huge power shovel was still working full blast in Blackwell Friday removing debris left from Wednesday night's tornado."
Date: May 26, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5536]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The spring's most devasting tornado ripped through Udall Wenesday night leaving 61 persons dead. The injury list totaled more than 200. Udall, in south-central Kansas, is just 80 miles from Blackwell. A twister destroyed a farm home near Oxford south of Udell killing five young children and injuring three other persons in the family. Killed were five children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond King. They ranged in age from 3 … more
Date: May 26, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5538]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The spring's most devasting tornado ripped through Udall Wenesday night leaving 60 persons dead. The injury list totaled more than 800. Udall, in south-central Kansas, is just 80 miles from Blackwell. A twister destroyed a farm home near Oxford south of Udell killing five young children and injuring three other persons in the family. Killed were five children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond King. They ranged in age from 3 … more
Date: May 26, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5599]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The path of Blackwell's devastating tornado Wednesday night shows with stark clarity in the aerial photography at right, looking from west to east. The twister slashed across a 40-square-block area in the northeast part of town, leveling more than 300 homes and damaging about 750 residences. Below, the twisted wreckage of his grandparents' car is examined by little Warren Bickford IV in Blackwell. The child's grandparent… more
Date: May 26, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5600]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Blackwell went about the grim task of counting its dead Thursday night, 20 hours after a roaring twister cut a wide swath through the east side of town, leaving in its wake havoc and desolation. Eighteen persons were officially listed as dead. , with more than 300 injured, seventy of them reported in serious condition in Blackwell General hospital. Others were hospitalized in Ponca City and Newkirk. Two were sent to Okl… more
Date: May 26, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7174]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At right, a child is stunned by his first brush with disaster. Warren Bickford IV, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Bickford, stands in front of the storm-smashed home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Randle, both of whom were injuried."
Date: May 26, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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