Corps of Engineers Records, Vicksburg Tornado (December 5, 1... Series 2323
This subset of Series 2323 (Corps of Engineers Records) consists of eleven photographs taken after a deadly tornado swept through downtown Vicksburg on December 5, 1953. The storm cost the city of Vicksburg thirty-eight of its citizens, injured 270 more, and left 1,200 homeless ("Twist of Fate, Dec. 5, 1953," by Leslie Criss and Rhonda Smith, Vicksburg Evening Post, December 5, 1993). The images document the destruction on the following streets: Adams Street, Levee Street, Mulberry Street, Openwood Street, and Washington Street. The image captions were transcribed from the verso of the original photographs.
Read MoreThis subset of Series 2323 (Corps of Engineers Records) consists of eleven photographs taken after a deadly tornado swept through downtown Vicksburg on December 5, 1953. The storm cost the city of Vicksburg thirty-eight of its citizens, injured 270 more, and left 1,200 homeless ("Twist of Fate, Dec. 5, 1953," by Leslie Criss and Rhonda Smith, Vicksburg Evening Post, December 5, 1993). The images document the destruction on the following streets: Adams Street, Levee Street, Mulberry Street, Openwood Street, and Washington Street. The image captions were transcribed from the verso of the original photographs.
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"A part of P. P. Williams, wholesale house, Levee St., All their sheds and buildings were badly damaged."
Date: 1953-12
Filename: 2323-1953-photo-01.tif
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"Scene in residential area of Locust and North Madison Sts. Shown in picture is one house that has been built back."
Date: 1953-12
Filename: 2323-1953-photo-02.tif
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"Checking counter, all that remained of Joe Wing Sing Grocery, Openwood and Farmer Sts., a number of people in store, including Durwood Barfield and Gus Holler, no one killed."
Date: 1953-12
Filename: 2323-1953-photo-06.tif
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"Wreckage on hillside of Depot St., between Levee and Mulberry Sts."
Date: 1953-12
Filename: 2323-1953-photo-08.tif
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"Scene in residential area on 1'st East near Farmer St. The back of Gus Holler home that fronts on Farmer is visible"
Date: 1953-12
Filename: 2323-1953-photo-10.tif
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