H. G. Harte house, Omaha, Nebraska, after the April 6, 1919, tornado
Description
Black and white photograph (8.5 x 6 cm.) with a view of the H. (Henry) G. Harte's house at 4824 Capitol Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska after it had been damaged by the tornado of April 6, 1919. There is a piece of wood that been thrown into the wall by the door on the porch. The reverse has written in pen: Harte's Hse, 4/6/19.
According to the Omaha City Directory (1920) Henry G. Harte was the manager of Stryker Shoe Company and lived at 4824 Capitol Avenue. The April 6, 1919 tornado came down at about 6:00 on Sunday afternoon, at almost the same hour and same day of the week as the devastating 1913 tornado that dropped down six years earlier on Easter Sunday, March 23, and followed about the same general path. The 1919 wind storms came through Lincoln and Elmwood, Nebraska, before dropping down a funnel in Omaha at Center and 55th Streets. It raged to the northeast across the Dundee addition, following 49th Street from Farnam to Cuming Street, then leaped to the Clifton Hill neighborhood and followed 45th Street northward. The tornado came after a sultry day and was preceded by some lightening and hail. Several homes and properties were damaged but there were no deaths, although Mrs. J. G. Micklen and her son and daughter were hospitalized. Source: Omaha World-Herald newspaper, April 7, 1919, p. 1-2.
