View of the riot district.
<p>View of the riot district taken from the roof of Booker T. Washington High School. The ruins of Dunbar Elementary School is center, with the smoldering ruins of the brick buildings at Greenwood and Archer on your upper right. Upper left is the ABC Construction buildings and the Midland tracks.</p>
<p>The photo is a very poor quality reproduction from a microfilmed copy of the <em>Chicago Defender</em>.</p>
Unknown photographer
<em>Chicago Defender</em>. 1921 June 11
1921 June [2 or 3]
This item was published in 1921 and therefore is in the Public Domain.
A House
<p>The article in the <em>Chicago Defender</em> identifies this as Dr. Thompson's house at 521 N. Detroit.</p>
<p>The photo is a very poor quality reproduction from a microfilmed copy of the <em>Chicago Defender</em>.</p>
Unknown Photographer
<em>Chicago Defender</em>, 1921 June 11
Prior to 1921 June 1
This item was published in 1921 and therefore is in the Public Domain.
The Williams Building, Greenwood and Archer, before the riot.
This picture shows the northwest corner of the corner of Greenwood and Archer, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Taken some time before the riot, the building is the Williams Building.
<p>The photo is a very poor quality reproduction from a microfilmed copy of the <em>Chicago Defender</em>.</p>
Unknown photographer
<em>Chicago Defender</em>, 1921 June 11
Before 1921 June 1
This item was published in 1921 and therefore is in the Public Domain
East side of Greenwood from Archer, shortly after the burning
This image depicts the east side of Greenwood Ave. Details are sufficient to indicate that this is fairly early after the burning, likely the evening of 1 June. The blurred figures show a lengthy shutter speed was used, suggesting a low ambient light level.
<p>The key to the numbers was in the <em>Chicago Defender</em> article:</p>
<ol><li>The ruins of the Stradford Hotel, owned by J.B. Stradford, valued at $65,000, containing 66 rooms.</li>
<li>Dreamland Theater, owned by Wesley Williams. [Note that the Dreamland sign is still hanging, indicating the early time period of the photograph].</li>
<li>Gist grocery store.</li>
<li>Ed Howard's barber shop.</li>
<li>Woods building, occupied by the Earl real estate co. [The article implies that the safe was from the real estate company. It is also possible, and has been suggested elsewhere, that the safe had been in Dr. Bridgewater's office, also in the Woods Building, where it had been used as a bank. Also in the Woods Building were the new offices of the <em>Oklahoma Sun</em> newspaper, in the space formerly occupied by the <em>Tulsa Star</em>; Gentry's real estate; Mary Parrish's school; and two other physicians.]</li>
</ol>This photo is a very poor quality reproduction from a microfilmed copy of the <em>Chicago Defender</em>.
Unknown photographer
<em>Chicago Defender</em>, 1921 June 11
1921 June [1]
This item was published in 1921 and therefore is in the Public Domain
Ruins
<p>Looking east from Detroit Ave over destroyed neighborhoods towards the Tulsa Pressed Brick Company, Booker T. Washington high school is on the right in front of the brick company. The <em>Chicago Defender</em> article says that the three posts were Dr Thompson's house at 521 N. Detroit Ave. They also match the brickwork of Dr Bridgewater's house at 507 N. Detroit. If Dr. Thompson's house, the posts to the left indicate the position of the murdered Dr Jackson's house at 523 N. Detroit Ave.</p>
<p>This photo is a very porr quality reproduction from a microfilmed copy of the <em>Chicago Defender</em>.</p>
Unknown photographer
<em>Chicago Defender</em> 1921 June 11
1921 June [1-10]
This item was published in 1921 and therefore is in the Public Domain.
Booker T. Washington High School
Booker T. Washington High School remained untouched during the burning and chaos, and housed refugees during and after.
Unknown photographer
Mary E. Jones Parrish. <em>Events of the Tulsa Disaster</em>. Privately published. 1922.
c. 1921
This item was published in the <em>Events of the Tulsa Disaster</em> in 1922, and is therefore in the Public Domain.
Operating Room, Maurice Willows hospital.
Maurice Willows operated the Red Cross hospital after the riot at 324 N. Hartford Street.
Unknown photographer
Mary E. Jones Parrish. <em>Events of the Tulsa Disaster</em>. Privately published. 1922.
c. 1922
This item was published in the <em>Events of the Tulsa Disaster</em> in 1922, and is therefore in the Public Domain.
Ward in the Maurice Willows hospital.
Maurice Willows operated the Red Cross hospital after the riot at 324 N. Hartford Street.
Unknown photographer
Mary E. Jones Parrish. <em> Events of the Tulsa Disaster.</em> Privately published. 1922.
c. 1922
This item was published in the <em>Events of the Tulsa Disaster</em> in 1922, and is therefore in the Public Domain.
Rev. Whitaker and family distributing relief goods.
Reverend R. A. Whitaker was the pastor at Mount Zion Baptist Church, which had only recently been completed and paid for before the riot. The reasons for its burning are debated, but it was believed to have held a large weapons cache, and that there were people shooting from it during the defense of Greenwood.
The ruins of Mount Zion Baptist Church are in the background of this photo.
Unknown photographer
Mary E. Jones Parrish. <em>Events of the Tulsa Disaster</em>. Privately published. 1922.
c. 1921
This item was published in the <em>Events of the Tulsa Disaster </em>in 1922, and is therefore in the Public Domain.
Funeral Car of Jackson Undertaking Co.
Unknown photographer
Mary E. Jones Parrish. <em>Events of the Tulsa Disaster</em>. Privately published. 1922.
c. 1921
This item was published in the <em>Events of the Tulsa Disaster</em> in 1922, and is therefore in the Public Domain.