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[Photograph of Overturned Train After Tornado]

Photograph of an overturned train after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The train is turned on its side and we see the underside of it. Piled in front of the train is a pile of debris that includes wooden beams and pieces of metal. There is an upright train car on the right side of the frame. There is a large puddle in the foreground.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Overturned Truck and Destroyed Houses After Tornado]

Photograph of two buildings, two houses, and an overturned truck after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The foreground is covered with wooden beams and other debris. The overturned truck is on its side in the left side of the frame. On the right side of the frame in the background are the damaged buildings and an upright truck. Behind the houses are leaning telephone poles.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Police Car and Debris]

Photograph of an old police car in front of a row of damaged storefronts after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The signs on the stores read, "Weis Dry Goods Company" and, "Slack and Wassenmiller Grocery and Market". In the background are three cars with three men in jackets and hats standing beside them. In the foreground are scattered pieces of wood.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Sacks, Barrels, and Salt Licks]

Photograph of a foundation topped with full, piled sacks, barrels and salt licks. In the foreground is a wall with a door that has fallen after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of School, Cars, and Debris]

Photograph of six cars parked in front of a school building after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. In-between the cars and the building are trees. On the right side of the frame is a pile of debris. In the foreground is a cement driveway.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Texas Town After Tornado]

Photograph of a row of damaged buildings after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. A sign on one building reads, "Weis Dry Goods Company" and another reads, "Slack and Wassenmiller Grocery and Market". In front of the stores are five cars and one truck. There are eight men standing by the vehicles, all wearing jackets and all but one wearing hats.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of the Higgins Tornado Destruction]

Photograph of buildings and concrete destroyed by the tornado. On the left side of the frame in the foreground is the front end of an old truck.

Date: April 9, 1949

Creator: Russel Minton

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of the Higgins Tornado Destruction]

Photograph of a building destroyed by a tornado with cars on the left and large pole in front. In the foreground is a winding dirt road.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: Russell Minton

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Tornado Damage in Glazier, Texas]

Photograph of tornado damage in Glazier, Texas. There are three trees stripped bare with broken limbs. Strewn all over the ground are wooden planks and other objects like chairs and couches. In the far background is a two story building.

Date: April 9, 1949

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Train After Tornado]

Photograph of an old car and a train after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The car is on the left side of the frame. In the center is a railroad car and in front of the railroad car on the left side of the frame is an overturned railroad car. The ground is covered with debris that includes wooden beams and pieces of metal.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Truck and Houses After Tornado]

Photograph of a truck and three houses after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The truck's hood is caved in. Behind the truck are the three houses and trees. All over the ground is debris, mostly wooden beams.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Two Men and Debris After Tornado]

Photograph of a row of badly damaged buildings after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. In front of the buildings and all over the ground is a large pile of debris including a door, bricks, and wooden boards. Two men in jackets, gloves, and hats stand on top of a board on the left side of the frame. Behind the men is a row of cars.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Two Men and Tornado-Damaged Truck]

Photograph of two men inspecting a badly damaged truck after the Higgins/Glazier tornado. The man on the left side of the frame wears khaki pants, a leather jacket, sunglasses and a hat. The other man wears a leather jacket and a cap. The truck is upright but the top half is crumpled. In the background are telephone poles, a tree, and an old car.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Two Men and Tornado-Damaged Vehicle]

Photograph of a trailer with large tires in a puddle after the Higgins/Glazier tornado. There is a shadow in the foreground of a person wearing a hat. In the background are railroad tracks, torn-up trees, a truck, telephone poles, and a damaged building.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Vehicles and Fallen Structure After Tornado]

Photograph of a fallen wooden structure after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. On the left side of the frame is a row of vehicles. and a damaged sidewalk. In the background are damaged buildings.

Date: April 9, 1947

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Vehicles, People, and Damaged Building After Tornado]

Photograph of six vehicles and five people standing in front of a damaged building after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The windows and the roof of the building are missing. There is a tree and another building on the right side of the frame. In the foreground is the roof of the car dented with bricks with a tennis racket.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Windmill, Fallen Trees and Debris After Tornado]

Photograph of fallen trees and a windmill with bend blades after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. There is a truck and a fence on the left side of the frame. The ground is covered with wooden beams and debris.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Workers Helping After Tornado]

Photograph of two women in coats and hats volunteering after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. One woman's hat has a small cross on it, the other woman wears glasses. They are in-between a vehicle and a table with food items on it. On the other side of the table are three men in police hats with cups in their hands. In the background are two men in jackets and coats, one is pointing, and a woman in a headscarf. Also in the background are cars and damaged buildings. In the foreground are tanks. more

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Piled Debris from Higgins Tornado]

Photograph of a view of piled wooden planks, other debris from tornado destruction and cloudy sky from dirt road.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: Russell Minton

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

South Austin Baptist Church

View of church sanctuary.

Date: April 9, 1957

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

South Austin Baptist Church

Exterior view of a South Austin Baptist church.

Date: April 9, 1957

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

South Austin Baptist Church

Exterior view of a Baptist Church in South Austin.

Date: April 9, 1957

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Southern Pacific Transport

Standing group shot of Southern Pacific Transport Co. employees at a banquet

Date: September 9, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

["Sunbeam" departing from Houston]

This scene depicts Southern Pacific's Grand Central Station in Houston as it appeared in the last days , the "end of the age of steam". The Southern Pacific's "Sunbeam" train No. 13 northbound headed by Engine No. 650 - a streamlined Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive - departs from the terminal on its run to Dallas at 4:45 PM on August 9, 1953.

Date: August 9, 1953

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

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