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Lake Shore Electric Streetcar After 1924 Tornado Photograph
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Title
Lake
Shore
Electric
Streetcar
After
1924
Tornado
Photograph
Subject
Transportation
Climate and Weather
Tornadoes
Streetcars
Place
Lorain (Ohio)
Lorain County (Ohio)
Description
This
photograph
,
taken
by
Rudy
Moc
,
shows
a
Lake
Shore
Electric
streetcar
after
the
Lorain
tornado
of
1924
. The
photograph
measures
8
"
x
10
"
(20.32
x
25.4
cm)
. The
tornado
struck
Sandusky
and
Lorain
on
Saturday
,
June
28
,
1924
and
led
to
approximately
eighty-five
fatalities
. In
Lorain
, the
tornado
came
ashore
at the
Lorain
Municipal
Bath
House
in
Lakeview
Park
and
tore
a
three-mile
path
through
downtown
Lorain
in
about
three
minutes
. Its
width
varied
from
4,000
to
500
feet
,
becoming
narrower
as
it
progressed
eastward
. The
tornado
lifted
east
of the
city
and
set
down
again
at
Sheffield
and
Avon
.
Damage
in
Lorain
was
greatest
from
West
Erie
Avenue
south
to
Seventh
Street
and
along
Broadway
south
to
Eighth
Street
.
Buildings
were
damaged
for
thirty-five
blocks
along
Broadway
.
More
than
one
thousand
homes
were
damaged
and
five
hundred
destroyed
in
Lorain
.
Creator
Moc, Rudy
Date of Original
1924
Collection
Albert
C
.
Doane
Collection
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Lorain Public Library System
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om2199_3113560_004.tif
Image Height
2497
Image Width
3074
File Size
936.663 KB
Format
picture
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