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This black and white photograph shows a tornado approaching a town in Kiowa County, Kansas. The photograph appears in a 1919 article in the Monthly Weather Review (July 1919, 47: to face page 448) identified as Mullinville, Kansas. Mullinville is ten miles west of Greensburg on state highway 54.
Date: June 11, 1915
Item Number: 216386
Call Number: FK2.K3 G.4 T.1915c *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 216386
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Tornadoes
Community Life - Scenes and views
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1910s - 1915
Environment - Weather - Storms - Tornadoes
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Mullinville
Places - Counties - Kiowa
Type of Material - Photographs
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