Dentist Office Damaged by Tornado, Lone Rock, Buena Vista Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, 21 May 1918, copy 1
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- 05/21/1918
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Front Picture Description: Black & white photograph of cyclone / tornado damage to Lone Rock, Wisconsin which occurred on 21 May 1918. Unidentified person’s feet in window. Signs in Photograph: “DENTIST”. Back Print: “COUNTY ROOM, BREWER LIBRARY”. Back Writing: “P224-16c1”. Description of picture from page 136-137 of book published in Plain, WI, 2008 called, “May 21st 1918 Cyclone, A Path of Destruction”: “On the main business street the worst damage and loss is that of the bank and hardware building. It was a two-story brick veneer, owned jointly by Dr. Jamieson and Core & Wells. It is a complete wreck, the lower story being completely swept from under and the upper dropped down, not a brick being left in place. In this building were the unfortunate Editor Pitkin, whose law office and printing were on the second floor and in which building deceased had taken refuge from the storm but a few seconds before its collapse; Frank Core, Floyd Wells and Fred Dring. Core and Dring escape
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Richland County History Room
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- Tornado
Brewer Public Library - Subjects
- Unidentified
Pitkin, Perl C. ( -1918)
Jamieson, George (1851-1929)
Core, Frank A. (1870-1953)
Wells, Floyd Bruce (1881-1949)
Dring, Fred
Clements, James L. (1891)
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- This work by Richland County History Room, Richland Center Wisconsin is licensed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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- Dentist Office Damaged by Tornado, Lone Rock, Buena Vista Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, 21 May 1918, copy 1. 05/21/1918. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/4206. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- (05/21/1918) Dentist Office Damaged by Tornado, Lone Rock, Buena Vista Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, 21 May 1918, copy 1. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/4206
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/4206>.