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Title: Cyclone View, May 27, 1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: An elevated view of an alley, as well as several destroyed buildings, residential properties, and a church in a St. Louis neighborhood after a tornado hit on May 27,1896.

Title: Madell
Date: 1896
Description: This levee scene taken just after the cyclone of 1896, shows the damage to the transfer boat Ma dell.

Title: Cyclone View, May 27,1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: The debris and structural damage of a barn, building, and wagon caused by a tornado on May 27,1896 in St. Louis, Missouri,

Title: Evans Avenue
Date: 1959-02-10, 1959-02-11
Description: After the 1959 tornado, with walls sliced away, homes in multiple-family dwellings in the 3800 block of Evans Avenue are revealed in cross section. The buildings were badly damaged, their contects largely intact.

Title: Cyclone View, May 27, 1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: Large, multi-story building destroyed in the May 27, 1896 tornado which hit St. Louis, Missouri.

Title: Photograph of Steamer City of Natchez
Description: Page 2 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of Natchez was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1885 to 1886. This page is part of a scrapbook that contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

Title: Cyclone View, May 27, 1896
Date: 1896-05-27
Description: Street view of destroyed buildings, debris and bystanders in the aftermath of a tornado which hit St. Louis' Lafayette Square neighborhood on May, 27,1896.

Title: M-378: Eugene A. Atwater St. Louis Tornado Photographs
Description: This collection consists of four photographs which document the damage inflicted by the 1896 tornado which hit Saint Louis, Missouri on May 27, 1896. Although the date listed on each of the photographs is consistent with the date of the storm, the photographs may have been taken at a later date. Other photographs documenting the storm damage show a greater amount of debris than is visible in

Title: Boyle and Olive
Date: 1959-02-10, 1959-02-11
Description: Towering precariously was the corner of the old Musical Arts Building on the southwest corner of Boyle avenue and Olive street. Much of the third floor was destroyed by the twister, which struck the intersection with its full force.

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