The Great Tornado

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Title: The Great Tornado
Creator(s): St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Date: 1896-05-27
1941-09-28
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): Tornado damage
Severe weather
Geographic Area: Saint Louis (Mo.)
Lafayette Avenue (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Time Period: 1890-1899
Description: Houses were reduced to rubble, trees twisted to stumps and streetcars to splinters by the 1896 tornado, as this photograph taken on Lafayette avenue, looking east from Jefferson avenue, reveals.
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Classification: GDPS001452.tif
Owner: St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis

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