earthquake

Arica after the earthquake. No. 5

Photograph shows earthquake rubble at the base of Morro de Arica. Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. In album: Recuerdos del Peru, vol. 1.

Baalbec. Great portal of Temple of Jupiter. Central stone displaced by...

In album: Constantinople, Smyrna, Beyrout, Ba'albec, Damascus, p. 24B, pl. 48. "No. 182" written in image.

Santa Rosa flour mill, after earthquake, April 18th 1906, Santa Rosa, ...

Photograph shows destruction of buildings; five men, three wearing badges, stand in front of rubble on train tracks; four men, in background, stand in piles of debris and flour sacks.

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: general view of ruins

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San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Registration Bureau

Group of people looking at wall, being used as bulletin board. Stereo copyrighted by Tom M. Phillips. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, US; Photog. I.; Ca... More

[Cal. - San Francisco - Earthquake & Fire, 1906: Kearney St. from Tele...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. California.

Collectors in carriages for Italian earthquake sufferers, East Side, N...

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[The earthquake of July 11, 1927. Damage to buildings in Nablus]

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Earthquake damage - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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Palestine events. The earthquake of July 11, 1927. Damaged tower of Au...

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San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906

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Aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906

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San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906: Post Office [tent] in Hamilt...

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End view of the magnificent City Hall, showing wreck caused by the fir...

Artist seated in rubble, painting scene. Stereo copyrighted by R.E. Steele. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Artists at work; Ca. SF Earthquake; Shelf.

Arnold Genthe - Ruins after San Francisco earthquake, 1906 / Genthe.

Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Public domain photograph - San Francisco earthquake and fire, ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Market St., the business centre, after terrible earthquake and fire, S...

Low aerial panorama. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: California; Shelf.

Earthquake, San Francisco. April 18, 1906. Houses built by Red Cross a...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Slides. Group title: Disaster Relief. 1 October 1919 [date received] Used in... More

San Francisco disaster - earthquake and fire - several buildings in fo...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tower of City Hall, [1906 earthquake, San Francisco, Calif.]

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San Francisco disaster - earthquake and fire - man and woman standing ...

H78483 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ca. SF Earthquake; Shelf.

Palestine events. The earthquake of July 11, 1927. Damaged main buildi...

Public domain photograph of church or mosque building, Jerusalem, Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of San Francisco after earthquake and fire, April 18 - 21, 1906,...

Copyright deposit; Lester C. Guernsey; 1906. Landmarks labeled on image. Exhibited in: American treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004.

San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906

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[Panoramic view of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and f...

No. 15. Copyright by Casey & Clancy, San Francisco, Cal. Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - Ruins of earthquake and fire, San Francisco, Calif. 19...

Photo by Arnold Genthe, 1906 (no. 40) This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ca. S.F. Earthquake; Shelf.

Bernhardt, Sarah, in carriage in San Francisco after the earthquake an...

A black and white photo of a woman in a horse drawn carriage. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jefferson Square camps, after the San Francisco earthquake and fire

Photo copyrighted by the Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 35. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Calif. S.F. Earthquake...; Refugees; Disasters; Geogr.; Shelf.

United States Mint, surrounded by the ruins of earthquake and fire, Sa...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. U-91119. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mints; Photog. I.; California SF Earthquake; Earthquakes; Shelf.

[Earthquake, Kingston, Jamaica, 1907]: At one of the refugee camps on ...

[Survivors of the earthquake, Messina, Sicily, Italy]

H121696 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Earthquake of 1908, Messina, Italy: A poor woman's attempt to shelter ...

Woman with 3 small children in front of very small, humble, A-frame dwelling. J130376 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 16824. This record contains unverified, old data from ... More

Going to the land of opportunity, homeless Italian earthquake refugees...

Refugees posed on deck of ship. Stereo copyrighted by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H. No. 11021. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

The devastated urban district immediately following the earthquake dis...

Album entitled: "Yokohama Reconstructed, 1929". Panorama is photo no. 25 in album, on last page. Accompanying caption reads: "The great earthquake of the 1st Sept., 1923 which swept its ways through the Kwanto... More

A corner of an old mosque in Constantinople It is lucky this is not an...

Photographs show a fountain? at a mosque and a minaret near a street, Istanbul, Turkey. On page: no. 1496 (top image) and no. 1498 (bottom image). In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [128]. Negative se... More

Palestine events. The earthquake of July 11, 1927. Blocked-up street i...

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San Francisco disaster - earthquake and fire - man standing among rubb...

Photo copyrighted by George R. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Ca. SF Earthquake; Shelf.

[Panoramic view of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and f...

No. 15. Copyright by Casey & Clancy, San Francisco, Cal. Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fun making by the earthquake refugees - a temporary home, San Francisc...

Stereo shows a group of people sitting outside of a decorated tent called the "House of Mirth" with signs indicating an available elevator and running water after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. H77336 U.... More

Ruins of City Hall, [1906 earthquake, San Francisco, Calif.]

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Los Angeles Earthquake - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906: Thousands of tons of relief ...

Ruins in background. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Looking down Montgomery St. towards th...

Stereo copyrighted by American Stereoscopic Co. No. 2031. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ca. S- F- Earth.; Photog. Index; Ca. SF Streets; Shelf.

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Fort Mason, where thousands of destitu...

Soldiers, tents, etc. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 8730. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, US; Ca. SF Earthquake; Refugees; Cal. S.F. Fort Mason; Shelf.

First Unitarian Church, damaged by earthquake, San Francisco, Cal.

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[Earthquake, Kingston, Jamaica, 1907]: A fantastic sight, Royal Mail S...

Photograph shows the earthquake disaster in Kingston, Jamaica, 1907. H91394 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co., 1907. No. 8754. This record contains unverified, old data from caption ca... More

Earthquake rift in Jordan banks

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Earthquake damage - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906

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[Tent post office used after the San Francisco earthquake and fire]

H78376 U.S. Copyright Office No. 91558. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Postal Service.

Foot of Market Street, showing earthquake upheaval, San Francisco, Cal...

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Charred corpse of a victim of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fi...

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[Market Street and Turk Street after the earthquake and fire, San Fran...

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Effect of the earthquake on dwelling houses, San Francisco, Calif.

Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 9348; no orig. negatives. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Cooking dinner in the street

Man holding plate, woman cooking, child standing; horse and wagon in behind them. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 8274. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card... More

[San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906]

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[View of building after earthquake and fire, San Francisco, California...

Six men in foreground face the damaged 7-story building. Copyright by Casey & Clancy, San Francisco, Cal. No. 1.

[Crowd on Grant Ave., San Francisco, California, watching building bur...

Copyright by Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 8. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Earthquake, Kingston, Jamaica, 1907]: Jamaican natives cooking dinner...

Photograph shows the earthquake disaster in Kingston, Jamaica, 1907. H91119 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co., 1907. No. 8762. This record contains unverified, old data from caption ca... More

Climbers assessing damage to the Washington Monument following the 201...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More

Climbers assessing damage to the Washington Monument following the 201...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More

Aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906

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Arica, after the earthquake. No. 1

Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. In album: Recuerdos del Peru, vol. 1.

[Two women amidst bricks and rubble after San Francisco earthquake and...

H78343 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906: Leaving the stricken city, cr...

Stereo copyrighted by E.W. Kelley; Universal View Co. No. 7884. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mints, US; City halls; Ca. SF; Photog. I.; Shelf.

[Palace Hotel on fire, San Francisco, California, during earthquake an...

Copyright by Pillsbure [i.e. Pillsbury] Picture Co. No. 10. Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bernhardt, Sarah, in carriage in San Francisco after the earthquake an...

A black and white photo of a man and woman in a horse drawn carriage. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Mint after the earthquake, San Francisco, Cal.

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San Francisco in flames - showing freaks of the earthquake in the fore...

Man with piece of torn-up street in foreground. Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 13351. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ca. SF Earth; Photog. Index; Shelf.

[Earthquake, Kingston, Jamaica, 1907]: Jubilee Market on Orange Street...

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 8768. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Jamaica Hist.; Earthquakes 1907; Jamaica Kingston; Geogr.; Shelf.

[Albanian man in long-haired cape looking in dismay at ruins of his ho...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Earthquake damage - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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Palestine events. The earthquake of July 11, 1927. Shattered remains o...

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Climbers assessing damage to the Washington Monument following the 201...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More

Climbers assessing damage to the Washington Monument following the 201...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More

California St. from Sansome St. before the earthquake, San Francisco, ...

Stereograph showing view of long and high San Francisco city streets and tall buildings. H78239 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1906 by C. L. Wasson. On mount: Home Office and Works, Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A. ... More

Fun making by the earthquake refugees - a temporary home, San Francisc...

Stereo shows a group of people sitting outside of a decorated tent called the "House of Mirth" with signs indicating an available elevator and running water after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. H77336 U.... More

Earthquake victims. Costa Rica - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Section of long line of refugees awaiting distribution of meat - East ...

H78600 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Ca. SF Earthquake; Shelf.

Earthquake shaking potential for California, Spring 2003 /

Relief shown by shading. Shows level of earthquake hazard. Includes text, inset of "Three-quarters of our nation's earthquake losses will be in California," and important messages. Bibliography. Available also ... More

The dynamite crew destroying unsafe walls left standing by the earthqu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Earthquake, crack in wall, Jerusalem

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After the earthquake - frame houses tumbled from their foundations, Sa...

Stereo shows two Victorian houses that have fallen off of their foundations after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. H97373 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8774. Copyright July 29, 1907 by H.C. White Co. Exhibit... More

After the earthquake - frame houses tumbled from their foundations, Sa...

Stereo shows two Victorian houses that have fallen off of their foundations after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. H97373 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8774. Copyright July 29, 1907 by H.C. White Co. Exhibit... More

Los Angeles Earthquake - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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A crude post office - reorganizing the mail service after the earthqua...

Stereo shows a young girl and two men standing in front of the tent serving as the post office after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. H78375 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8237. Exhibited: Documenting Disaste... More

San Francisco Earthquake & Fire, Apr. 1906: Tangled ruins of a great m...

Stereo copyrighted by E.W. Kelley - Universal View Co. No. 7849. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cookery, military; Army, U.S.; Refugees; Churches- Cal.; Cal.... More

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Barber in Jefferson Park

In small, temporary building with customer. Stereo copyrighted by Tom M. Phillips. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, US; Barbers...; Photog. I.; Ca. S- F-... More

Palestine events. The earthquake of July 11, 1927. A house in Nablus r...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. On negative: 4. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Ceiling picture of German emp[eror]. & empress [in Augusta Victoria St...

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"Why is an Earthquake" Washington, D.C., Dec. 17. The old question "wh...

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc.... More

Climbers assessing damage to the Washington Monument following the 201...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More

Ruins of San Francisco after earthquake and fire, April 18 - 21, 1906,...

Copyright deposit; Lester C. Guernsey; 1906. Landmarks labeled on image. Exhibited in: American treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004.

[Spectators sitting on hillside watching fires consume the city after ...

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Barclay's earthquake damage to walls

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[Temporary structures in street, San Francisco, California, after the ...

Burlap and rug-covered structure in foreground bears hand written sign "Palace Hotel Grill". H77330 U.S. Copyright Office.

City Hall after the earthquake, showing the shattered foundations, San...

Stereograph showing ruins of City Hall following the earthquake and fire in San Francisco, 1906, with photographer using camera on tripod in foreground. H81824 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 39. Sold only by Griffi... More

[Block of burned buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake ...

H78972 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.G. Munson. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified Staples & Charles. San Francisco after the earthquake an...

This film is made up of five panoramas, four wide and one close-up, of the ruins of downtown San Francisco shortly after the 1906 disaster, plus a panorama and scene in a nearby refugee camp. Original intertitl... More

Palestine events. The earthquake of July 11, 1927. Landslide at the Jo...

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Earthquake damage - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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