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Postcard with photo of street with tornado damage in Omaha Nebraska, with funnel cloud in background.
Labeled:
AS TORNADO APPEARED AFTER PASSING 38th ST Omaha Mar. 23rd – 1913 –
Photographer ‘HEYN OMAHA COPYRIGHT 1913’ (Herman Heyn)
Postmarked ‘OMAHA NEB. APR 5 1913O’, mailed to Philadelphia
Herman Heyn was an important portrait photographer in Omaha, Nebraska, from the 1880s through the 1920s. He is nationally noted for more than 500 images he created of Native Americans, mostly Sioux, in 1898 or 1899.
On March 23, 1913—Easter Sunday—a devastating tornado outbreak affected the northern Great Plains and sections of the Upper Midwest, lasting approximately 3 1/2 hours. It was the most violent tornado outbreak to affect the northern Great Plains on so early a date in the year. That day, four F4 tornadoes affected portions of eastern Nebraska and western Iowa, killing at least 168 people. The deadliest tornado of the day was a violent tornado, retroactively rated F4 that grew to 1⁄4 mile in width as it passed through northern Omaha, Nebraska, killing at least 94 people in the city proper and three in rural areas.
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