I'm 55....and those type of books are what guys and gals in my era grew up with. There were no computers...no "online"...etc. So for homework assignments...lucky households sometimes had books like that, or something similar. The rest of us went to the school library and just looked stuff up. Really....it wasn't that bad!
I DO remember that a couple of standard tornado photos were used in several of those types of books. One was a series of funnel-to-tornado photos from Gothenburg, Nebraska..(from the 1930's I believe), as well as one from Stratford, Texas.
I was unable to successfully link up with the first link you provided...it got me to EBay and just stuck there, but I was a little more successful with the second link. From what little I could see of the tornado on the book's cover, neither of the aforementioned tornadoes looked much like it.
Perhaps I'm like you...I was always fascinated by photos of tornadoes...and for me, it began at a very very early age. And maybe like you now, it was really important for me to find out just WHERE the tornadoes in the books took place. Since I'm a 4th gen. Nebraskan, I remember it was especially rewarding for me to find pictures of tornadoes that occured in Nebraska. I always wanted to find out "how close to grandma and grandpa's farm" a particular tornado within a book was. Hey, I'm telling the truth...I was a "weird" kid! But I'm guessing that a lot of us in the Storm-Track Clan have some eclectic "weirdness" regarding tornadoes deep down inside us, huh! C'mon....fess up!
Actually....that could be a cool topic for another time and place. Something along the lines of "How old were you when you first became obsessed with tornadoes...and what was it that triggered that behavior?" You know, if you're into stuff like "past lives" etc.....well, the conversation could get pretty deep and interesting.
Good luck finding out the answer to the question you're currently "obsessing" (lol) about! Joel in Tucson