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[Collapsed building from Waco Tornado]

Description: Photo of a collapsed building resulting from the Waco tornado of 1953. Austin, Texas.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Debris on street from Waco Tornado]

Description: Photo of debris in street from the Waco tornado, 1953. Austin, Texas.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Destroyed buildings after Waco Tornado]

Description: Photograph of partially-demolished buildings along south 5th Street in downtown Waco, Texas after a tornado, looking north. A tall building is still standing at the end of the street (left) and a sign is partially visible for the Roosevelt Hotel on the right side of the image. There are work vehicles in the street.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Location: 31.556444 -97.131531
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[People among debris after Waco tornado]

Description: People in uniform in a group among destroyed buildings at night.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Tornado Damage

Description: Copy photograph of damage to the Old Gold Shop and other buildings on Austin Street in Waco, Texas. Pictured are several shops with the facades and parts of the roofs torn off from a tornado. Parked outside the shops is a GMC truck. Two men stand to the left.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jimmie Willis
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of First Methodist Church in Waco, Texas]

Description: Photograph of First Methodist Church (formerly the Fifth Street Methodist Church) in Waco, Texas. The church building was designed by W. C. Dodson. The church tower and steeple received major damage in the Waco tornado of 1953. The brick on one side of the tower shows where the bricks were replaced.
Date: September 1962
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Storm Damage

Description: Copy photograph of tornado damage to the Joy Theater and Dennis Building in Waco, Texas. The two buildings are completely destroyed. A group of people gathers in front on foot and in trucks.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Destroyed Building, possibly the R.T. Dennis building

Description: Unidentified men stand or sit around and on an unknown building demolished by a tornado in Waco in 1953. This is possibly the R.T. Dennis building, a five-story building that was demolished in the tornado.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Storm Damage

Description: Copy negative of the ruins of Rowan's Photography and the Old Gold Shop in Waco, Texas after the tornado of 1953.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Man Inside Ruined Store

Description: Copy negative of Scott Lavette Seastrunk standing in the ruins of the Old Gold Shop at 418 Austin Avenue in Waco, Texas after the tornado of 1953.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Storm Damage

Description: Copy negative of the ruins at Katy Ball Park in Waco, Texas after the tornado of 1953. There are a walk and handrail on the left, a pile of debris on the right, and some buildings in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Storm Damage

Description: Copy negative of an exterior view of the damage at the Old Gold Shop after the tornado of 1953 in Waco, Texas. The front of the building is torn off and there is debris lying in the alley. There is a car parked on the street in front of the store.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Storm Damage

Description: Copy negative of tornado damage to Austin Street between 3rd and 4th. Several buildings stand with facades roofs torn off. Beyond is a taller building that seems undamaged.
Date: unknown
Location: 31.558090 -97.130293
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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