Tornado cloud, Gothenburg, Nebraska – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Tornado cloud, Gothenburg, Nebraska, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Tornado cloud, Gothenburg, Nebraska
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A tornado cloud is the subject of this photograph of Gothenburg, Nebraska, a small town on the central Plains, dated on its caption card to about July 7, 1930, though that date has not been verified. The picture was registered for copyright under the name of Otto Wiederanders, a reminder that the Copyright Office once required deposit copies of photographs, which is how many images of ordinary local events reached national collections. Summer storms like this were a common and often frightening sight across Nebraska, and photographs from that period offer a useful record of how rural communities saw severe weather.
| Created / published | c1930 July 7. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | JO6413 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Otto Wiederanders. No. 2. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Nebr.--G-; Storms--Tornadoes; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 973 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132337 |
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