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

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5488]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(areial photo showing a broke telephone tower on the ground, a building with three vehicles just below the tower, a couple more cars on the left, and more)"
Date: 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5588]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One man was killed as a tornado ripped along U.S. 77 north of Ardmore Tuesday, leaving this scene of destruction on the Murray county-Carter Line. Occupants of these trucks apparently escaped injury but Charles W. Davenport, 45, Ardmore, was killed when the twister toppled a TV tower, knocking Davenport's truck into a river bed in the Arbuckle mountains. A search party failed to find a man reported to be accompanying Dave… more
Date: April 2, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5591]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hardest hit area of Durant was this intersection at S. 9th and Louisana. Looking up 9th, this photo shows the ruins of the R.H. Brown grocery on the corner. Next are the remains of the W. R. Moore grocery. At right is the heavily damaged ice cream stand of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Emrick. the Emricks and two employes escaped injury, although all were at the business when the storm roared through."
Date: April 3, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5587]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo from inside a church's assembly room showing the damage. backside typing: "auditorium of the baptist churh from pulpit, south side blown out, part of roof off. Remodeling was underway. Pastor's study, completely remodeled, was finished Friday. Wall was blown out there. Two workmen were in second floor assembly room south of Auditorium, windows and parts of wall blown out there but they weren't inju… more
Date: November 17, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5566]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A small tornado, rain and hail struck near Logan County town of Seward about 4:30pm Friday, wrecking barns, telephone and power lines. Apparently no one was hurt. The twister came at the close of what was probably the state's hottest day. The mercury climbed far past the century mark everywhere in Oklahoma."
Date: August 15, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5485]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(areial photo showing a broke telephone tower on the ground, a building with three vehicles just below the tower, a couple more cars on the left, and more)"
Date: 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5586]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All that was saved from the Sid Thompson home is carried in these few boxes. Everything else was destroyed in a tornado which Saturday night hit Frisco area near Stonewall. Thompson, center, looks over what is left. He is joined by David Hill, and his sone Mark."
Date: May 10, 1959
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5572]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The corrugated sheet iron draped around the box car in the picture above was once part of the 100-foot tall peanut storage shed adjacent to the Rush Springs railroad section. The mammoth shed got in the way of a tornado. The sheet iron draped around the this box car standing at the Rush Springs railroad station was part of a peanut storage shed which was swept from the mooings as a tornado funnel danced through Gr… more
Date: 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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