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Photograph of tornado damage to an apartment building in Topeka, Kansas. On June 8, 1966, a massive tornado moved from the southwest side of the city and traveled northeast toward the downtown area. The tornado cut a four block wide and eight mile long swath of destruction through the capital city
Date: 1966
Item Number: 217446
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.4 T.1966 *175
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 217446
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Secondary Structure
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Tornadoes
Date - 1960s - 1966
Environment - Weather - Storms - Tornadoes
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - The Sixties and Vietnam, 1961 - 1975
Type of Material - Photographs
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