Wichita Falls flood: Aerial View Series

Creator

Wilburn Davis

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Identifier

20150776

Description

Part of a series of aerial views of Wichita Falls. Over 500 homes were evacuated in the city after six-inch rolled through the southern part of the city, causing Lake Wichita to pour its excess water into Holliday Creek, creating floods that forced evacuations. Published in the evening edition, August 3, 1950. Photo taken from Ritchey Flying Service Plane.

Archival Date

1950-08-02

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-2525

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

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License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Subjects

Floods; Disaster; Aerial views; Aerial photographs