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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0859]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CUTS AND BRUISES were the only injuries the driver received when this heavy truck, loaded with 30,000 pounds of vegetables, went out of control east of Gore on U.S. 64, and plunged down a 30 foot embankment, overturning several times. Trooper Harold Ragsdale said Ben Mayhew Lindy, 22, of Jackson, Fla., was thrown from the wreckage and miraculously escaped serious injuries even though both shoes were torn off his feet."
Date: May 15, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0689]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "There was a storm cellar at the Joe Jonson home in Gans but the family never had achence to use it. three members of the family were killed when the storm struck. Coy Lack, A Gans youngster looks at the unused cellar."
Date: January 22, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0695]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the first picture available from the Gans tornado scne where eight persons were killed an nearly a score of others injured early Tuesday morning."
Date: January 22, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0690]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This pile of rubble is all that is left of the Bill Davis home in gans, the third house struck by the Tuesday morning tornado."
Date: January 22, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0697]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Warm bedding is always a necessity aftera tornado. Bedding was rushed to Gans and these 45th division guardsman are shown getting ready for the victims."
Date: January 22, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0691]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Three members of the Joe Johnson family were blown out of their home and killed in the Tueday morning tornado. Dead are Johnson, 60, and his two sons C.J. Johnson, 16, and Mickey Johnson 15."
Date: January 22, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0694]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A tornado roard of a bleak sky shortley beore 6 a.m. Tuesday leaving at least seven persons dead and a dozen injured as it struck the community of Gans in Sequoyah county."
Date: January 22, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0696]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A salvation army unit was on the scene 2 1 / 2 hours after the tornado struck. They served hot food and coffee to the storm victims and 45th divison soldiers assigned to guard duty."
Date: January 22, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Rover Bank Flood Damage

Description: Photograph of flood damage from high water on the Arkansas River. Banks continuously being cut back into good bottom land field by flow of flood water. This flood water has already washed out 350 acres of this field completely as the river changed its course.
Date: July 28, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Flood Damage From the Arkansas River

Description: Photograph of soil washing and deposition on good bottom land, Scass II Soil Unit 4. Pot holes, drift wood and deposition from Arkansas River overflow. This land should be retired or it will need expensive leveling and cleaning job to put it back into condition for farming.
Date: July 28, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Flood Damage

Description: Photograph of a pot hole in a cultivated field caused by flood water overflowing good bottom land from high water on Arkansas River. This land should be retired from cropland or will need and expensive leveling and cleaning job to put it back into condition for farming.
Date: July 28, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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