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Tornado, Lebanon, Kansas – Historic Reproduction

Tornado, Lebanon, Kansas, c1902. — historic photograph
Tornado, Lebanon, Kansas, c1902.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Tornado, Lebanon, Kansas. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Tornado, Lebanon, Kansas

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A tornado, rather than a building or a person, is the subject of this c1902 print, which records a storm over Lebanon, a small farming town in north-central Kansas. The town sits near the geographic center of the contiguous United States, a fact that gives it a modest place in the state's history. Storm photographs from this period are uncommon, since cameras were bulky and tornadoes arrived without warning, so the image offers a rare glimpse of how a funnel looked to people on the ground in the early twentieth century.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
SubjectsTornadoes--Kansas--Lebanon--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 992 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162824

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