Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0219]

Caption: "MR. and MRs. Frank Gritz apply first aid to cuts after the tornado ripped through their home."
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1092.0564]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "While farmers in Kingfisher and other countless along the mid-state route of the Cimarron river prayed for rain on their parched wheatfields the Cimarron (above) was running wasted water Tuesday almost bank full through that same area, from rains up the watershed."
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0178]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The tornado which stuck east of Hennessey made almost a cylinder of this 36-inch, woven wire fence, which was ripped for more than a half-mile and tossed half that distance into another field"
Date: May 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History