Tornado of 1896 Publications

Accession Number:  SC U:11
Location:  RB-M
Dates:  1896-1995
Size:  1 Hollinger; 0.50 cu. ft.
Creator/Collector:  Various
Acquisition info:  Collected by SLPL staff
Accruals:  None expected
Custodial history:  Some items from stacks, some items transferred from Fine Arts Department
Language:  English, German
Processed by:  Amanda Bahr Evola, April 2012
Conservation notes:  Items placed in archival acid-free folders.
Scope and Content:  This collection contains publications (mostly pictorial) of the 1896 tornado that occurred in St. Louis. Also contains newspaper clippings and subsequent publications of the event.
Arrangement:  Collection arranged by publication title
Restrictions:  Unrestricted
Remarks:

Tornado of 1896 Publications
1896-1995
1 Hollinger; 0.50 cu. ft.

Box/Folder Description
 1/1  Finding aid
 1/2  Great Cyclone at St. Louis I. Haas Publishing (4)
 1/3  The Great St. Louis Cyclone L. F. Hammer Jr. (2)
 1/4  The Great Tornado at St. Louis Graf Engraving Co. (3)
 1/5  Der Grosse Tornado Graf Engraving Co.
 1/6  Pictured Story of the St. Louis Tornado
 1/7  The St. Louis Chronicle’s Photographic Views of the Great Cyclone at St. Louis (2)
 1/8  Newspaper clippings (various)
 1/9  Bulletin Missouri Botanical Garden article
 1/10  Lafayette Square—tornado tour (2) and Marquis article
 1/11  Leslie’s Weekly cover and illustrated map
 1/12  Southtown Word article (2)
 1/13  St. Louis Post-Dispatch Magazine article (2)
 1/14  U.S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau, "The Tornado of May 27, 1896" (photocopy)
 1/15  The Great Cyclone St. Louis, Illustrated (1896)
 1/16  Tornado of 1896 at St. Louis (1896)
 1/17  Wind Pressures in the St. Louis Tornado (1897)
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