Name/Title
PhotographEntry/Object ID
cd07310746Description
Photograph is black and white view of Saint Mary Roman Catholic Church, 300 West Eighth Street, showing damage, destruction and debris from 1924 Tornado.
Written on back of photograph: "Lorain Disaster, July 27 1924 This had been a brick church".Photograph Details
Subject
1924 Tornado
Saint Mary Roman Catholic ChurchContext
Letter in file from: Jean M. (Eckman) Whaley, PO BOX 106, North Jackson, OH, March 11, 1996
To: Chamber of Commerce, City of Lorain, Attn. Historical Dept.
Enclosed are several snapshots from an album my mothers Mrs. Cecil Eckman (Helen) had salvaged from the fire which burned her home in 1976. She died in 1983 and I took possession of her memorabilia boxes.
Dad and Mother occasionally accompanied a local automobile dealer to Detroit to pick up and return new cars to the dealership in Niles, Ohio. It was on one of these trips in 1924 that they took these pictures with Mother's old "Brownie" camera., which I still have.
Rather than throw them away, I am sending them to you to do with as you wish.Acquisition
Accession
2025.37Source or Donor
Whaley, JeanAcquisition Method
Donation