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Photo image of an article from the Portsmouth Times: Six Die As Tornado Hits Area. Newspaper is aged and yellowing.

Scan of a Portsmouth Daily Times newspaper article telling about Wheelersburg rebuilding itself one year after the tornado. Article includes photos of the destruction and then the rebuilding process.

Newspaper photo from the Portsmouth Daily Times showing the destruction wrought by the tornado in Wheelersburg.

color scanned image of a scrapbook page contaning a hand drawn map of Wheelersburg and the path of the tornado

Newspaper photos of the aftermath of the tornado.
Left and upper right: birdseye view images of the path and destruction the tornado took in the Herald Dispatch.
Bottom right: photo from the Portsmouth Times of the remains of the Reinhardt…

Newspaper photos from the Herald Dispatch
Upper Left: Boll's Feed Store where two were killed
Lower Left: House destroyed
Upper Right: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kiser with overturned car
Lower Right: House is blown off foundations

Black and white photo image of the Adkins, Paul Bobst, and Turners homes, taken by Ed on the eve of the tornado. Ed printed this picture. Mrs. Adkins was killed in her home.

Newspaper photo of a panorama of the destruction in Wheelersburg after the tornado

Newspaper photo of a panorama of the destruction in Wheelersburg after the tornado

Scan of black and white panorama photo of some of the damage after the tornado in Wheelersburg. Photo shows debris, destroyed homes, and the destruction of the landscape.

Colorized photo image of when the National Guard used bus for shelter one rainy night at Check Point of Lick Run and Dogwood Ridge in Wheelersburg after the tornado.

Black and white photo image of Hay's Grocery at the corner of Oak Street and Lick Run Road. This was a National Guard station after the tornado in 1968.