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[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

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5580]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "These are not scenes from Germany, where General Patton's boys have rampaged down the line toward Berlin nor are they scenses from the Pacific where our Marines continue to push the Japs back into the honorable homeland but what remains of Antlers. The top picture shows the remains of a house one block south of the main street and the bottom picture shows what is left of a house a block north of the main stem. Note th… more
Date: April 13, 1945
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
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.OVZ001.5582]

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.B0052.0777]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "SQUEEZE PLAY proved a bit risky for this small foreign car which was caught between a large produce truck and a post in downtown Oklahoma City Friday. No one was injured."
Date: August 7, 1946
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5574]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Force of Wednesday's tornado literally crushed this building in Longsdale, but miraculously, leftg untouched the structures shown in the background. Thew shattered structure was once a sturdy concrete block building."
Date: March 30, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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Description: Group of men helping with fire, burned trucks, cars and semi in daytime image. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A cleanup crew (above) went to work late Monday to clear away the debris left by gasoline fire that destroyed a garage, filling station and a fuel truck at Mcloud."
Date: March 7, 1950
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.OVZ001.5577]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This lone tree was all that was left standing on the farmstead of R.A. Glasscock, five miles northwest of Hobart. Glasscock, working in the barn, was fatally injured. Glasscock, working in the barn, was fatally injured. Glasscock was found a quarter of a mile from the barn. A car in the garage, foundation in background above, was blown three-quarters of a mile and dumped into a pond."
Date: April 28, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5594]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wire fences near Hennessey Monday showed up with beards of what hail and a tornado Sunday night stripped fields clean east of the town. Hundreds of acres were left bare by the storm, and not all the wheat tops were found on fences. Where the rest went is a mystery. For the story of this thatched fence and the field behind it see page 7."
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5595]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The pile of lumber and debris, left, was a grananry with nearly 400 bushels of Holdover wheat and some grain until Sunday night's tornado smacked the farm of Albert Ricks east of Hennessey. Sitting on what is left or their piano, left"
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5564]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Worst damage at Sawakwa, Seminole county, from dipping twister there was to the Otto Donner hardware store. Here Robert Fahrmy, Sasakwa school teacher, and H.F. Granger, of The Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co., Wewoka, examine the store. Here Robert Fahrmy, Sasakwa school teacher, and H. F. Granger, of the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co., Wewoka, examine the store. The Donners barely made it to a storm cellar 100 feet back of… more
Date: September 15, 1950
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5565]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the wind-wrecked car of Charles Lyon, Seminole County deputy sheriff, caught in the Sasakwa tornado. An oil tank was slammed down on it after Lyon parked it on SH 56 and dived for the ditch. A piece of the sheet steel ripped Lyon's right leg."
Date: September 15, 1950
Creator: Hauton, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5563]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Textbooks left behind when students fled from bridge Creek school Thursday were later collected for safe keeping in one of the buildings undamaged by the tornado. Doing the collecting is Rev. Edward Wolfe, pastor of the First Baptist church of Moore, and Mrs. Frank Bittle, English teacher at the school."
Date: April 5, 1951
Creator: Burns, Bill
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.OVZ001.5573]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Windstorms always have their unexplainable features and one such oddity in the tornado that hit Meridian, Logan County, Friday afternoon was at this house, until recently occupied by Rusaw Jones. A room on the west side of the building was exploded by the storm, bur clothes left hanging on the inside wall were not distrubed by the force of the wind."
Date: August 10, 1951
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5575]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A tornado at Meridian, serve wind and rain storms at Perkins, Cushing and Hominy, a boy electrocuted at Stonewall and rain everywhere was the story of Oklahoma weather Friday afternoon . And there's more rain forecast. Heaviest rainfall measured and reported was at the WKY weather station near Britton, where a 3.75 inches fell between. 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. The wind velocity was measured at 65 miles an hour. Across town at… more
Date: August 10, 1951
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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