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Tornadoes

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

- 47. Scenes of Woodward after the tornado of 1947. (#45 Outsize), 1947

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9A, item: 44
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of towns in Woodward County, Oklahoma including Woodward, Richmond, Curtis, Tangier, Mooreland, Haskew, Mutual and Enid. The collection also contains photographs of agriculture, businesses, cowboys, the range cattle industry, schools, and the United States Cavalry. Woodward County Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1947

A man talking to his wife who was injured in the Woodward tornado., Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-3, item: 93
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of towns in Woodward County, Oklahoma including Woodward, Richmond, Curtis, Tangier, Mooreland, Haskew, Mutual and Enid. The collection also contains photographs of agriculture, businesses, cowboys, the range cattle industry, schools, and the United States Cavalry. Woodward County Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

A portion of Main Street after a tornado struck, Snyder, Oklahoma., Undated

 Item — Box Photo M-17, item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of tornado damage in Snyder, Oklahoma; members of the Welch family; and businesses, banks, and street scenes in Haileyville and Cement, Oklahoma; Shreveport, Louisiana; Rouse, Colorado; and Groesbeck and Ralls, Texas. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

A portion of the city’s morgue after the tornado had struck the town leaving many dead. Snyder, Oklahoma., Undated

 Item — Box Photo M-17, item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of tornado damage in Snyder, Oklahoma; members of the Welch family; and businesses, banks, and street scenes in Haileyville and Cement, Oklahoma; Shreveport, Louisiana; Rouse, Colorado; and Groesbeck and Ralls, Texas. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

After a tornado in Guthrie, May 21, 1922, showing damage done to trees, 1922 May 21

 Item — Box Photo L-8A, item: 301
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Foress B. Lillie family and Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory and state. The collection includes street scenes, transportation, businesses, outlaws, and oilwells, as well as scenes of places, cities and towns in California, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Foress B. Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1922 May 21

Albert Symcox House destroyed by tornado in Washita County (Cordell), northwest section of town. April 30, 1913. 9:30 p.m., 1913 April 30

 Item — Box Photo P-48, item: 40
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Cloud Chief, Oklahoma Territory, and the towns of Ardmore, Foss, Gotebo, and Cordell, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of businesses, railroads, farming, picnicking, schools, a Ku Klux Klan parade and tornado damage. James Franklin Parman Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1913 April 30

Annie Stewart Higham Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1148
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Sac and Fox, Ponca, Comanche, Oto, and Cheyenne Indians.

Dates: 1896

“Brother” A.H. Symcox’s dugout after the house blew away in cyclone. 1912. Cordell, OK. Raymond Symcox said tornado was April 30, 1913. 9:30 p.m., 1913 April 30

 Item — Box Photo P-48, item: 45
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Cloud Chief, Oklahoma Territory, and the towns of Ardmore, Foss, Gotebo, and Cordell, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of businesses, railroads, farming, picnicking, schools, a Ku Klux Klan parade and tornado damage. James Franklin Parman Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1913 April 30

Business portion, looking southeast in Snyder after tornado struck., Undated

 Item — Box Photo M-17, item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of tornado damage in Snyder, Oklahoma; members of the Welch family; and businesses, banks, and street scenes in Haileyville and Cement, Oklahoma; Shreveport, Louisiana; Rouse, Colorado; and Groesbeck and Ralls, Texas. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Coach rooming house, struck by a tornado, Snyder, Oklahoma 1905., 1905

 Item — Box Photo M-17, item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of tornado damage in Snyder, Oklahoma; members of the Welch family; and businesses, banks, and street scenes in Haileyville and Cement, Oklahoma; Shreveport, Louisiana; Rouse, Colorado; and Groesbeck and Ralls, Texas. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: 1905

Cotton compress after tornado had struck, Snyder, Oklahoma., Undated

 Item — Box Photo M-17, item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of tornado damage in Snyder, Oklahoma; members of the Welch family; and businesses, banks, and street scenes in Haileyville and Cement, Oklahoma; Shreveport, Louisiana; Rouse, Colorado; and Groesbeck and Ralls, Texas. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Cunningham Indian Photographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1671
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Apache, Comanche, Sioux, Pawnee, Iowa, Osage, Oto, and Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians. Also included are scenes of Fort Apache, Arizona, Geronimo, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Quanah Parker's grave at Post Oak Cemetery.

Dates: 1890-1960

Damage done by the tornado at Union City, 1926., 1926

 Item — Box Photo S-6, item: 23-27
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Methodist churches in the towns of Gracemont, Putnam City and Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. Also included in the collection are scenes of the Rev. W. Vance Shook and his family, of tornado damage in Union City, Oklahoma, and of the Men's Bible Class of Crescent, Oklahoma. William Vance Shook Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1926

Don Sporleder Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1515
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Davenport and Shamrock, Oklahoma and Perry, Stroud, and Chandler, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of cotton marketing, streets, railroad construction, the Oklahoma National Guard and tornado damage at Chandler.

Dates: 1893-1910

Early photo of an Oklahoma tornado, labeled “Oklahoma Cyclone, No. 2.” Printed description of the cyclone on back. Waynoka, Woods County, OK. North Losey, OKC, O.T., photo. Copyright 1899. Photographer’s board., 1899

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1899

Foress B. Lillie Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1517
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of the Foress B. Lillie family and Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory and state. The collection includes street scenes, transportation, businesses, outlaws, and oilwells, as well as scenes of places, cities and towns in California, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Foress B. Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1889-1920

Fred Lincoln Wenner Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-652
Scope and Contents

Journalist. Typescripts and manuscripts (1889-1939), and clippings (n.d.) regarding the history and settlement of Oklahoma; and correspondence (1904-1950) between Wenner and the Territorial Board for the Leasing of School Lands, of which Wenner was secretary, and with notable personalities in Oklahoma regarding Oklahoma history. Fred L. Wenner Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1887-1950

From Frisco track, looking southeast in Snyder after tornado, Snyder, Oklahoma., Undated

 Item — Box Photo M-17, item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of tornado damage in Snyder, Oklahoma; members of the Welch family; and businesses, banks, and street scenes in Haileyville and Cement, Oklahoma; Shreveport, Louisiana; Rouse, Colorado; and Groesbeck and Ralls, Texas. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, C.O. 4th Army, at the time of the tornado which demolished Woodward, April 24, 1947. With him are Mayor R.A. Boseh (2nd from right), Dr. Raymond Barnes, 2nd from R. Red Cross medical director and Robert C. Edson, Red Cross Midwestern director., 1947, April 24

 Item — Box Photo W-3, item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of towns in Woodward County, Oklahoma including Woodward, Richmond, Curtis, Tangier, Mooreland, Haskew, Mutual and Enid. The collection also contains photographs of agriculture, businesses, cowboys, the range cattle industry, schools, and the United States Cavalry. Woodward County Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1947; April 24

Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, C.O. 4th Army at Woodward 1947. See #9., 1947

 Item — Box Photo W-3, item: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of towns in Woodward County, Oklahoma including Woodward, Richmond, Curtis, Tangier, Mooreland, Haskew, Mutual and Enid. The collection also contains photographs of agriculture, businesses, cowboys, the range cattle industry, schools, and the United States Cavalry. Woodward County Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1947

Gen. Jonathan Wainright, C.O. 4th Army at Woodward following 1947 tornado. With him are Red Cross Dr. Raymond Barner and Red Cross director, Robert Edson., 1947

 Item — Box Photo W-3, item: 91
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of towns in Woodward County, Oklahoma including Woodward, Richmond, Curtis, Tangier, Mooreland, Haskew, Mutual and Enid. The collection also contains photographs of agriculture, businesses, cowboys, the range cattle industry, schools, and the United States Cavalry. Woodward County Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1947

Horse crushed to death in rubble., undated

 Item — Box Photo W-31, item: 789
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: undated

Hotel Whittington damaged by tornado., undated

 Item — Box Photo W-31, item: 788
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: undated

Irvin Munn Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-2492
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Chickasha and Minco, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and Tuttle, Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of street scenes, businesses, agriculture, railroads, schools, ferries, fire fighters, airplanes, and electric railroads.

Dates: 1890-1940

James Collon Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1581
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy and original prints of Lugert, Oklahoma and scenes of the W.C. Austin Reclamation and Irrigation Project, which includes the construction of Altus Lake and Dam.

Dates: 1912-1945

James Franklin Parman Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1654
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Cloud Chief, Oklahoma Territory, and the towns of Ardmore, Foss, Gotebo, and Cordell, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of businesses, railroads, farming, picnicking, schools, a Ku Klux Klan parade and tornado damage. James Franklin Parman Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1894-1965

James M. Babcock Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1547
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of tornado damage at Shawnee, Oklahoma, the Chickasaw Capitol building at Tishomingo, Oklahoma, and Union Agency at Muskogee, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt on a train tour of Oklahoma, and Gene Autry. James M. Babcock Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1930-1960

Lugert’s store after the 1912 tornado., 1912

 Item — Box Photo K-29, item: 46
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Chickasha, Indian Territory; Mountain Park, Cooperton, Roosevelt, Cold Springs, Newkirk, Enid, Hobart and Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. Also photographs of farming, businesses, railroads, and the oil industry. Also scenes of Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians with photographs of Delos Lone Wolf, Geronimo and Quanah Parker.

Dates: 1912

Mrs. Roy Trader Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo T-9
Identifier: WHC-P-1457
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints and a panorama of Snyder, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of tornado damage to the town.

Dates: 1905

Porter First National Bank Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo P-37
Identifier: WHC-P-1489
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Porter, Oklahoma which include scenes of tornado damage from 1919. First National Bank (Porter, Okla.) Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1907-1942