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[Photo Album of Tornado Damage in a Small East Texas Town]
An album of original photographs chiefly documenting damage from what we know to be a tornado which struck the small town of Wills Point, Texas on May 25, 1907. The album is void of any notation, though the first two prints match with published images on pp. 258 of the June 1907 issue of MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW, a journal of the American Meteorological Society first published in 1873. Those photographs are attributed to a George Alford of Wills Point, a possible candidate for the entire album.
The album holds 42 photographs in all, 33 are related to the Wills Point tornado, 9 document a train crash scene at an indeterminate place and time (likely nearby Wills Point and likely about contemporary to 1907 given print qualities).
[Photo Albums] : [Tornadoes] : [Texana]. [Photo Album of Tornado Damage in a Small East Texas Town]. [Wills Point, Texas]: 1907. Commercial album. Approximately 8" x 6." Black cloth over stiff card wrappers. Small tag of the Heinn Co. of Milwaukee indicating model "401 / CARBON" to interior. 25 black paper leaves: the first 17 with 33 black and white silver print photographs adhesive mounted to rectos and versos ; leaves 18 and 19 blank with the balance holding 9 black and white adhesive mounted photographs. Prints of varying dimensions, most about 5 3/4" x 2 3/4." Some darkening and edge mirroring to many of the prints. First print in album severely darkened. Album exterior with some dings in the cloth at rear panel. Overall good-plus.
An album of original photographs chiefly documenting damage from what we know to be a tornado which struck the small town of Wills Point, Texas on May 25, 1907. The album is void of any notation, though the first two prints match with published images on pp. 258 of the June 1907 issue of MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW, a journal of the American Meteorological Society first published in 1873. Those photographs are attributed to a George Alford of Wills Point, a possible candidate for the entire album.
The album holds 42 photographs in all, 33 are related to the Wills Point tornado, 9 document a train crash scene at an indeterminate place and time (likely nearby Wills Point and likely about contemporary to 1907 given print qualities).
[Photo Albums] : [Tornadoes] : [Texana]. [Photo Album of Tornado Damage in a Small East Texas Town]. [Wills Point, Texas]: 1907. Commercial album. Approximately 8" x 6." Black cloth over stiff card wrappers. Small tag of the Heinn Co. of Milwaukee indicating model "401 / CARBON" to interior. 25 black paper leaves: the first 17 with 33 black and white silver print photographs adhesive mounted to rectos and versos ; leaves 18 and 19 blank with the balance holding 9 black and white adhesive mounted photographs. Prints of varying dimensions, most about 5 3/4" x 2 3/4." Some darkening and edge mirroring to many of the prints. First print in album severely darkened. Album exterior with some dings in the cloth at rear panel. Overall good-plus.