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[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5579]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jean Dewbre, 16-year-old junior, was one of the two persons injured in the Bridge Creek cyclone. Seated beside Miss Dewbre is her mother, Mrs. Jack Dewbre."
Date: April 5, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5576]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A twisted pile of boards, barbed wire and strw was all that remnained of the barn in which R.A. Glasscock, about 65, was fatally injured five miles northwest of Hobart late Friday. The tornado blew Glasscock more than a quarter of a mile from the barn and hurled him against a sheer cliff. The entire farmstead was demolished."
Date: April 28, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5589]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A bright sun broke through briefly Wednesday afternoon on this scene of devastating at the Pure Oil camp. In the photograph at right, Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Moore inspect a clock in their grocery store in Durant. The store was leveled, and the clock stopped at 5:58 p.m. The Moore's found little to salvage from their store. It was one of three grocery stores in the same Durant neighborhood to be wrecked by Tuesday afternoon to… more
Date: April 3, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4897]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The speaking at Pryor came near the end of a long, long day…Mrs. Johnson spoke first as the President waited his turn. President and Mrs. Johnson visited Oklahoma Friday night, climaxing their second successive weekend of barnstorming. First stop in the Sooner State was Tulsa Municipal airport. The president chided Gov. Bellmon, then said he was making his trip "as a booster of jobs and of progress and industry for all o… more
Date: 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5569]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A windstorm fast in ruining the fruits of long days of hard labor. Here Frank Smrcka, living about five miles south and three miles west of Yukon, surveys the damage to his hay barn, caught by the wind in Tuesday night's violent storms. The storm battered several farms in the area. An insurance official said building damage on farms in the Yukon area would be about $300,000. But that was not all the damage, by any means… more
Date: April 15, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4882]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn landed at Will Rogers Airport Friday and predicted a solid Democratic victory in Novemeber. On hand to greet Sen. Johnson's party were Breene Kerr, son of Sen. Kerr, and Lowell Clark, a son-in-law. Sen. Kerr arrived aboud 15 minutes after the plane landed shortly after 10 a.m. He "ran out of gas... and had to get some from a competitor's station." Stopped in Dalla… more
Date: 1960
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4893]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a line of Oklahoma State Troopers, people standing along side them, a video camera stage, a building in the background, and more)"
Date: September 25, 1964
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0477]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wreckage of Globemaster military transport plane was searched Sunday near Cooperton for clues on why the plane crashed Saturday night during a violent thunderstorm, killing all six crewman aboard. Pieces of the plane were strewn over a two-square-mile area near the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge"
Date: May 9, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5581]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When the Antlers storm struck St. Agnes Catholic school on E. Main street, some 60 children where in the building. The children all knelt, prayed. The photo above shows the damage to the building. Miraculously, not a child was hurt."
Date: April 13, 1945
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4891]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a crowd outside, most sitting down, a man at the podium on a stage, buildings with a rocket and a plane in the background, and more)"
Date: September 25, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5582]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is what Thursday's tornado did to Antlers. The picture at the top is genarl veiw of some of the destruction along East Main street in the Pushmataha county seat. The sticks are remains of three or four houses."
Date: April 13, 1945
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0480]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a multi-story building with a second(?)-story window area broken apart, other parts of the same wall is still good, a wreckage just below, and more."
Date: January 14, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4901]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a large group of people standing outside, many signs people holding, cars in the right background, a building with sign "Welcome President," and more)"
Date: August 26, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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