Nature's Fury: Gallery of Artifacts

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Gallery of Artifacts

To locate artifacts for each event, click on the links below. When finished, remember to click the back button to return to this page.

The Great Chicago Fire
Scene on the Raidolsk Bridge Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-106829
Photo	Personal Account	Song
Additional Resources The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory The lost city! drama of the fire fiend! or Chicago, as it was, and as it is!

The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Ruins of City Hall Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-113370
Photo	Personal Account	Song
Additional Resources Museum of the City of San Francisco The Story of An Eyewitness

The Titanic
Survivors aboard the Carpathia Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-99341
Photo	Personal Account	Song
Additional Resources Encyclopedia Titanica

The Johnstown Flood
View of wrecked houses Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-121065
Photo	Personal Account	Song
Additional Resources Johnstown Flood National Memorial

The Dust Bowl
Dust storm, Kansas Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-117649
Photo	Personal Account	Song
Additional Resources Surviving the Dust Bowl

The 1918 Flu Epidemics
Ward #4, Annex #7, American Hospital Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-93739
Photo	Personal Account	Song
Additional Resources Influenza 1918 Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, December 8, 1918

The Blizzard of 1888
Scene in Printing-House Square, New York City Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-78091
Photo	Personal Account	Song
Additional Resources How Shall We Dispose of the Snow?

The Galveston Hurricane
The wreckage Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-109361
Photo	Personal Account	Song
Additional Resources The 1900 Storm

Wisconsin: The Peshtigo Fire
Burned land, Forest County Prints and Photographs Division FSA-OWI Collection
Photo	Personal Account	Song
Additional Resources Tales of Heroism and Tragedy Swirl Around Fire

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