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[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0025]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Rose Wallen, 60, and Mrs. Opal Wallen, 30, were killed when the storm turned their home into kindling. Bernice, OK., SW of Vinita."
Date: May 2, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0063]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When C. D. Hendricks learned the storm was headed toward his barrack's home at the University north campus, he gathered his wife and two children to find a safer place. But it was too late. They had time to only lie down near the bed before the walls collapsed around them. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks managed to protect the two young children with their bodies. Luckily all escaped injury. Hendricks grabbed a piggy bank containing… more
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0068]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Like a giant hand crumpling paper, the tornado that struck Corn and Colony Friday night in a flash converted valuable farm machinery into this jumbled mass of twisted metal. (Marion Penner farm, one mile west of Corn, OK.)"
Date: 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0045]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The tornado which cut a swathe between Union City and Mustang ripped the above trees bare of foliage and wiped out the month-old farm home of the Walter Orrs which the trees had shaded."
Date: June 10, 1937
Creator: Hughes, William J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0050]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Furniture and other merchandise from a general store were strewn over a wide path by the tornado that ripped through Caney, 11 miles south of Atoka, Monday afternoon. The T. T. Hall store, in the center of the storm path, was torn open for 40 feet with damaged estimated at $7,500."
Date: May 3, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0031]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Storms - Tornadoes - Wynnewood, Oklahoma - 1934 - 200 left homeless - "The foresight of an unidentified motorist, who hurried into the city and gave warning that the tornado was approaching, probably saved the lives of many persons."
Date: 1934
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0046]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The two piles of rubble are what a tornado left of the 2-year-old $30,000 gymnasium and the 45-pupil highschool building, right, at Colony, June 8."
Date: June 30, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0073]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When a twister ripped through Gould in Harmon county Wednesday night the H. S. Beamland service station was directly in its path. The dotted line shows the pathes of two gasoline pumps that the wind ripped from in front of the station and tossed over the roof into an oil storage area at the rear of the station."
Date: May 19, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0058]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The huge church at Corn was unroofed but left fairly intact as a twister ripped through the town and played havoc with private homes. Colony was also hit."
Date: 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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