Visual dialogue · Tornadoes

Tornado near Jasper, Minnesota, July 8, 1927 taken by 15 year old Lucille Handberg | src Billy Parrot Collection (view on Fb)

Two theories: the second tornado snapshot (on the bottom) had a Canedy’s Camera Shop 1927 date stamp on the verso. Canedy’s was in South Dakota and sold local souvenir snapshots (Bad Lands, Black Hills, etc…) between the 1920s – 1940s. It is also probable that when 15-year old Lucille Handberg took this photo her neighbor, who was an engineer, recognized its importance and sent copies to scientists around the country and these could be two of those. text adapted from source : Billy Parrot

Tornado near Jasper, Minnesota, July 8, 1927 taken by 15 year old Lucille Handberg

The images above this line are most probably scanned from newspapers of the time, we were not able to find the original source. The second image is from The Gallery of Natural Phenomena, where you can read more about the circumstances in which the photo was shot. [x]

Only the image below can be reached on the Library of Congress.

AWE-INSPIRING – This unusual photo of a South Dakota “twister” was made by Miss by Lucille Handberg at the risk of her life.
Published in New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.), August 6, 1928, page 14 | src Library of Congress

The classic photograph of a tornado taken near Jasper, Minnesota, on July 8, 1927 (Lucille Handberg) – Scan

Controversy arises : Jasper tornado of 1927 is, according to South Dakota Public Broadcasting (based on information from Siouxland Heritage Museums), the Sioux Falls tornado of 1932…

… view two images below.