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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

Debris on Road AFter Tornado

Photograph of a dirt road with scattered debris on it after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. On the left side of the frame is the road, on the right side is a fenced off field. In the foreground is the hood of an old truck.

Date: April 9, 1947

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Denison Family with Covered Wagon

Photograph taken in 1900 of the Denison family next to a covered wagon hitched to a team of mules. Five people and one dog sitting on a chair.

Date: 1900

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Destroyed Building After Tornado

Photograph of a gutted building after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The building is leaning towards the right side of the frame and half of the house closest to the viewer consists of piles of cinder-blocks and still-standing wooden beams. The ground is covered in debris which includes a ladder.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Destroyed Building and Piles of Debris

Photograph of a demolished building after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The ground is covered in wooden planks and beams, chairs, tires, bricks and tables. In the back are empty shelves standing upright. On the right side of the frame is a broken cinder-block wall.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Destroyed Car and Collapsed Buildings After Tornado]

Photograph of a destroyed car with the words, "Grocery & Market" written on it after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. Behind the car is a collapsed brick wall. On the right side of the frame are three brick buildings. On the left side of the frame are other undamaged vehicles. All over the ground is debris that includes wooden beams and twisted metal.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Destroyed Cars After Tornado

Photograph of two old cars ruined by the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The car in the foreground is upside-down and crumpled. The car in the back ground is badly bent. There is debris all over the ground. In the background are two bare trees.

Date: April 1947

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Destruction from the Higgins Tornado]

Photograph of a view from dirt road of an overturned automobile, bare trees and scattered debris from tornado destruction.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: Russell Minton

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Destruction From the Higgins Tornado]

Photograph of large, overturned farm equipment in front of building. There is a dirt road in foreground with strewn and splintered wooden planks.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: Russell Minton

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Dianna Koch

Studio photograph of a smiling Dianna Koch from the bust up. She is wearing a white blouse with a white carnation and ribbon corsage. Her hair is short and curled and she has short even bangs.

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Display at Fair

Photograph of a fair display. The display consists of labeled jarred goods, fruit and vegetables in a basket, two prairie dresses hung up on either side with a painting or drawing hanging in-between them. There are shoes, flowers, and a towel as well. Written in pen across the bottom is, " Bookers exhibit at Fair in Lipscomb".

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Dog and Duck Under Bush After Tornado

Photograph of a dog and a duck underneath a bush after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. There is debris scattered all over the ground. In the background are leaning telephone poles.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Dr. Ira T. Smith

Studio portrait photograph of Dr. Ira T. Smith. He is wearing a striped button-up shirt and jacket. He has white hair parted on the side, round glasses, and a mustache. Dr. Smith was married to Minnie Adella "Addie" Halsey.

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Dr. Ira T. Smith Playing Checkers

Photograph of Dr. Ira T. Smith playing checkers with another old man in a cowboy hat. They are sitting in metal chairs facing each other with the checkerboard on their knees. Dr. Smith holds a tobacco pipe in his mouth. They are seated next to a long building with doorways and windows. There are three women walking into the doorway on the right side of the frame. Two wear print dresses and one wears a white blouse with a printed skirt. There is a wooden chair in the foreground on the righ… more

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Dr. Jesse James Davis with Tobacco Pipe

Portrait of a seated Dr. J.J. Davis looking right with a tobacco pipe, glasses, and pens in his pocket. According to his great granddaughter, Dr. Davis was a photographer on the side and this is one of many self-portraits that he took.

Date: unknown

Creator: Davis, Jesse James

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Dr. William F. Markley in Old Car

Photograph of Dr. William F. Markley sitting with his hands crossed in a Model-T Ford car. He looking towards the right side of the frame. He wears a dark suit, tie, and cap. In the background is a field.

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Dust Storm in Darrouzett, Texas

View of a long and wide dirt road leading to a large dust storm that is about to engulf the town of Darrouzett, Texas. There are a few people on the left side of frame. Written on the bottom of the print is, "Dust Storm Approaching Darrouzett, Texas. April 14th 1935.

Date: April 14, 1935

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Ed Lehman in Model T Ford

Photograph of Ed Lehman sitting in a Model T Ford. The front of the car faces the left side of the frame. His right hand is on the steering wheel and his body is angled towards the camera. He is wearing a suit with gloves and newsboy cap and he has a cigar in his mouth. Behind him are two horse-drawn vehicles, one with many drawers on it.

Date: unknown

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Fallen Buildings and Debris After Tornado

Photograph of several people standing amongst a large pile of debris that includes wooden boards, pipes, and scrap metal after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. In the background is a badly damaged building. On the right side of the frame is a road with vehicles and in the foreground on the right side of the frame is an old truck.

Date: April 9, 1947

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum