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Collapsed House After Tornado

Photograph of a collapsed house after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. In the foreground is a fallen wall with debris and a bed frame on top of it. Two figures are digging through the debris on the right side of the frame. In the background are trees and a telephone pole.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Collapsed House After Tornado

Photograph of a collapsed house after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The house was two-stories tall. The ground is covered in wooden beams and there is a broken tree in the foreground.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Couple in Nice Clothes

Studio photograph of a man and woman dressed in nice clothes. He is seated on the left side of the photo. He has a beard and wears a dark suit with boots, a vest, and a watch chain. She is standing next to him with her right harm on his left shoulder. She wears a dark dress with large and medium-sized coin buttons, a high lace collar, and ruffles at the bottom. She is also wearing earrings, a necklace, and a pocket watch. Her hair is pulled up and curled. Behind them is a fake backdrop t… more

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Cowboy Hugging Woman

Photograph of a smiling cowboy with his arms around a woman who is standing on a tree stump with her arms around him. He wears a dark shirt, cowboy hat, and denim pants tucked into his cowboy boots. She wears a checkered dress and has a decorative comb in her hair. On the left side of the frame, next to the stump, is a cactus. Behind them is a tree, fence, and a building in the far background. Written on the bottom border in pencil is, "an armfull", where "full" is underlined three times.

Date: unknown

Creator: Marquis

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Cowboys and Cowgirl with Cattle

Photograph of four cowboys on dark horses and one cowgirl on a white horse. They are in front of a herd of cattle in the middle of a field. The upper half of the frame is a cloudless sky. The foreground is a field of grass and weeds.

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Cows After Tornado

Photograph of four cows after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. Three cows are lying down and one cow is standing and covered in mud. There is a large field and fence in the background.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Coy Merydith Well

Photograph of the Coy Merydith Well. On the left side of the frame is a tent building. In front of the well is a trailer with several barrels around it, an old car, and a small metal building.

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Coy Merydith Well

Photograph of the Coy Merydith Well. The well is centered and there is an old car on the left side of the frame. In front of the well is a yellow camper, several metal bars and in front of them is an old blue commercial truck. On the right side of the frame is the tail end of another blue commercial truck with a hose coming out of the back. Behind the well are dirt hills.

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Dad Wilhite

Studio portrait of "Dad" Wilhite, Jake Wilhite's father. He is depicted from the chest up. He is wearing a dark suit with a dark vest and shirt and a light-colored tie. His hair parted the right side of his head and he has a large mustache.

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Damaged Building After Tornado

Photograph of a damaged two-story brick building after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The windows of the building are blown out and the roof is damaged. In front of the building is a pile of debris with bricks and wooden beams. In the close foreground on the right side of the frame is a partial view of an old car.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Damaged Car After Tornado

Photograph of a badly damaged car after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The car is crumpled from debris on top and inside of it. There is a group of people, including a policeman, on the right side of the frame. Behind the car is a damaged building.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Damaged Car After Tornado

Photograph of a damaged car after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The car's door is missing and the roof and sides are badly dented. On the ground surrounding the car is debris which includes cinder blocks, wooden beams, and tanks. There are small trees in the background and even further back is a building and telephone poles.

Date: April 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Damaged Home After Tornado

Photograph of the front of a badly-damaged house after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The wall of the structure is gone, revealing wooden beams and there is a large pile of debris. In front of the house, there is a tree and a white wooden fence enclosing the yard, with a curb and a sidewalk near the bottom of the image, in the foreground.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Damaged House After Tornado

Photograph of two houses damaged by the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The white house in the center of the frame is missing half of its roof and a second building is partially visible on the right side of the image. The ground is covered with debris including wooden beams and planks, tree limbs, pieces of metal and stripped trees.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Damaged House After Tornado

Photograph of a damaged two-story home after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The visible side of the house is bent up at the bottom and the back of the house appears to be heavily damaged. A row of other houses are partially visible in the background and there is a row of trees in front of the homes.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Damaged Houses After Tornado

Photograph of damaged houses after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. On the far right side of the image, the roof of a badly damaged building is in the midst of some debris; in the center of the image, another house has no roof and the walls are sagging. Other homes are partially visible in the row behind them. In the foreground, there is a sidewalk and a fence enclosing the near yard.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Debris After Tornado

Photograph of large piles of debris that includes fallen walls, wooden boards, and tree limbs after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. On the left side of the frame is an old car and in the background a two-story building. On the right side of the frame is a road and several vehicles. There are many bare trees throughout the photograph.

Date: April 1947

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Debris and Damaged Buildings After Tornado

Photograph of a pile of debris that includes pieces of metal, wooden boards and tree limbs after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. In the foreground is a patch of grass and a puddle. In the background are several damaged trees and small buildings.

Date: April 1947

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Debris and Damaged Buildings After Tornado

Photograph of a badly damaged brick building after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The windows of the building are gone and chunks of the roof are missing. In the foreground are large piles of debris that includes bricks, wooden beams, and pieces of metal, as well as a bent pole and a sign that reads, "No Parking Any Time". There are two men in hats on the roof of the building.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Debris and Houses After Tornado

Photograph of a large pile of wooden boards and a group of houses after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. In the foreground is a fallen telephone pole and the ground is covered with boards.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Debris and Men After Tornado

Photograph of the ground covered with debris after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The debris includes wooden boards, pieces of metal, and tires. There are three men in hats standing on the right side of the frame. In the background is an old car and a wooden building.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Debris and Vehicles After Tornado

Photograph of a road with old cars and trucks traveling on it after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. In the background are bare trees, a car, and debris. In the foreground is a partial view of a vehicle and debris.

Date: April 9, 1947

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Debris from Higgins Tornado

View of wooden planks and other debris from tornado destruction from dirt road.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: Russell Minton

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Debris in Ditch After Tornado

Photograph of a dirt ditch filled with a pile of debris after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The pile contains big pieces of bent metal and wooden boards.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

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