[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0555]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sheriff Newt Burns and his unwelcome guest."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0057]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Saturday's tornado struck the Crescent school near Meeker and left this classroom in a shambles."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0063]

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 $30 just before the apartment was hit. Here Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks survey the wreckage with Riley Wilson."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0189]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Arthur Lopez, who lives at Boyd House on the university south campus, dove into a ditch for protection when he saw the tornado headed his way. He was thankful he didn't stay with his car. This is the he found it after the storm."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5601]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Upper right is a veiw looking northeast across where a warehouse stood."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5602]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These four pictures are proof of the fury of the tornado that injured 40 persons and caused heavy damage on the north campus of the University of Oklahoma at Norman Saturday afternoon. Upper left shows what happened to classrooms that were used by the air national guard."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5603]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The picture at left, taken through the north base operations building doorway, shows the operations tower."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5606]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This part of the destruction at the Norman north base, shortly after Saturday's Tornado struck. Note the wrecked points."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5607]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lloyd Palmer, of the Oklahoma City Safety council, took the picture at right for the Daily Oklahoman, showing University of Oklahoma truck, battered but still on its wheels amid the surrounding wreckage of the north base."
Date: April 30, 1949
Creator: Palmer, Lloyd
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0292B.0414]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Oliver Hodge, state superintendent of schools"
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0292B.0592]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0135]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0646]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0647]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Northern Oklahoma has found a fishing and outing paradise this spring in the Great Salt Plains lake on the eastern edge of the salt plains."
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0648]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1100.0097]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rodeo, Woodward, Okla."
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1100.0097]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rodeo, Woodward, Okla."
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0587]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1227.0397]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1293.0390]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Trees - Cypress"
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1293.0503]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1304.0563]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The educational building of the First Baptist church at Tecumseh will be dedicated on Mother's day, May 8, Rev. Loren Messenger, pastor, has announced."
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10687]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the way it looks from inside the city's new 5,000,000-gallon water tank being constructed at NW 50 and Meridian. Workers are busy on the overhead girders and will put the top plates in soon. One other tank has been completed. The two elevated storage tanks will be completed and in service by June 16, back-stopping the city's pumping facitlities at Lake Hefner during peak water consumption periods. A third tank is slated for construction in a few years."
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0098.0634]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: April 28, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History