Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Highway - Construction."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Highway - Construction."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The new Assembly of God church at Geary is taking from as members of the congregation donate labor."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Blaine County hopes to finish the 4-H club-Future Farmers of America building at the fairgrounds at Watonga before September."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gloria Nichols, Watonga, balances on the board as Barbara France, Watonga, in the water, urges her to come on in the cold water."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The land where Roman Nose State Park is located was owned by the Cheyenne Indian chief Roman Nose, and while many of the Indians in the area consider part of the park unlucky because Roman Nose was found dead, the youth of Watonga think the huge head of the chief that guards the park entrance is a lucky emblem."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The spring-fed rock swimming pool at Roman Nose park offers many ledges for divers."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The boys are a little braver than the girls off the high board."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oscar P. Ruth gets up with the sun each moring to check the past day's rainfall... ."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "And carefully enters the total in his records day after day."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It's not a scene from a "wild west" movie."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Betty Roedell, Watonga, pauses to rest in the shade on the steps to one of the cabins."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Arnold Grocery in Longdale was still a heap of spoiled food and sons in Blaine county. Longdale's only fatality was 14-year-old Larry Arnold who sleeping in store building when it collapsed."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This board from the house next door was blown through the walls of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gorham, Canton."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A tree is no place for a horse tank. Not even a giraffe could reach this tornado-tossed one, in the Canton area."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above is the home where Harry Carter, 50, was fatally injured The house belonged to his sister Mrs. Maude Smith, Carter, the fourth victim of the Canton-Longdale tornado, died Friday morning in Watonga hospital. Cecil Gray, Canton postmaster, is standing in the doorway."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Agraphic story of the tornado that ripped through Canton and nearby Longdale Wednesday is told in the above picture, showing a home reduced to kinding wood. At left is an unidentified man poking in the ruins in Canton."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Local Salvation Army workers were on the job in a hurry at Canton Wednesday. In the picture, left to right, are Mrs. J. T. Haigler, Mrs. Lee Reay, Mrs. James Haigler and Mrs. Doyle Haigler serving ceffee and doughnuts to Cpl. Warren P. Marsh, Enid airforce base."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A bulldozer from the army engineers' equipment at Canton dam piles the town's debris into huge stacks."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cecil Gray, Canton postmaster, inspects the wreckage of the Latter Day Saints church."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This Canton home (arrow) is the same as the one in the air picture above."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Much of Canton was littered with debris following Wednesday's tornado. Above is a typical scene. Here a roof has been blown across the street."

Photograph of pegs indicating the presence of one or more little bluestem seedlings which are invading a gravelly area. OK-10, 501.