Fort Smith Airport, Weather radar, March 1960 [View 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1960.

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Fort Smith Airport, Weather radar, March 1960 [View 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1960.

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Part of a group of negatives taken for April 6, 1960, Arkansas Gazette article "The New and Old Are Toured at Fort Smith," B1:3. Atop a steel tower at the Fort Smith Municipal Airport in Sebastian County, Arkansas, a plastic dome projects part of the radar equipment used by the Weather Bureau in its tornado-spotting work. A Civil Defense truck, prepared for instant use, stands ready beneath the tower.

1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

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