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Natural Disasters and Their Impacts

Stereographs capturing the aftermath of tornadoes and destruction, showcasing collapsed structures, downed trees, and the human response to natural calamities in the late 19th century.

Defenses of Washington, inside view. Fort Totten, near Rock Creek Church 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs
Defenses of Washington, inside view. Fort Totten, near Rock Creek Church 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs
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Taken from the highest point in the Bosch at Kedoeng-Djati / on the way north of this point: in the foreground the Lt. General Andresen, 1865 photograph Excavation work in the hills in the woods at Kedoeng Djattie. In the foreground on horseback De Lieutenant General A.J. Andresen. Album magazine with stuck photo, part of the photo album on the construction of the Semarang - Kedoeng Djattie (Kedungjati) on Java in 1865. Java photographic support. cardboard albumen print Java
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Pickets cooking their rations. Reserve picket fort near Fredericksburg, December 9, 1862. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1880 - 1891. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865, Soldiers , American , 1860-1869, Tents , 1860-1869, Military cookery , United States , 1860-1869
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5th Maryland Regiment, Drum Corps , Military parades & ceremonies, Centennial celebrations
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Soldiers monument , Monuments & memorials, Public sculpture, African American soldiers, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865
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National Revere Bank safe, Franklin St. , Fires, Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872
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Interior of a Grand Army of the Republic building. Unknown maker, American
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Photo archive Salwega 1921-1934. On the inner leaf of the album
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Completely Silenced. Dead Confederate Artillerymen, as They Lay Around Their Battery After the Battle of Antietam.. Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)
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Several funeral scenes of Napoleon. (TF)
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Digging up a 'dud' shell. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.
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War Department. 1865 - 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (D.C.)
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Front Dr. Lente's, Palatka, Fla.. J.G. Mangold & Son
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Soldiers hiding cannons with camouflage screens near the battlefield in Flanders during the First World War, Belgium, Europe
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Memorial to Kosciusko, Dade, Sedgwick, Scott, and Anderson. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)
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Prince Henry arriving at West Point. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1902. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)
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Serving out Army supplies to unending bread line of refugees at Ft. Mason, San Francisco disaster , Bread & soup lines, Disaster victims, Earthquakes, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
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Beauties of the soldiers' home, Dayton, O. Picturesque America (new series). 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Ohio, Dayton (Ohio)
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Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap Canal | Library of Congress
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Washington, D.C. Spectators at side of the Capitol, which is hung with crepe and has flag at half-mast during the "grand review" of the Union Army. No. 748, Hand-written on back of mount: Grand Review of Army, Wash. D.C, May 1865, scene at Capitol, Printed 1905 by Handy Studio, Washington, D.C, Civil War Photograph Collection , Title from corresponding glass negative, Purchase; Levin C. Handy; 1905 (DLC/PP - 1905:42760A), Published in: Miller's History of the Civil War, vol. 3, p. 348, Original glass negative filed in series LC-B817-7748; deterioration at edges. United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.), 1860-1870, United States, Army, Rites & ceremonies, Washington (D.C.), 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Commemoration, Parades & processions, Washington (D.C.), 1860-1870.
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The sea face of Fort Sumpter sic, east side, Charleston Harbor, S. C., looking n. e.. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865
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War and Navy Department. 1860 - 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (D.C.)
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Signal tower at Point of Rocks, Appomattox River, Virginia. No. B678, Title from item, Mounted with 1 other photograph with the same caption. Record for corresponding negative for this image gives location as Bermuda Hundred, Va, Hand written on mount: "Bermuda Hundred", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia.
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Execution of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators. The Scaffold. Date/Period: 1865. Albumen print. Width: 23.4 cm. Height: 16.8 cm (Image). Author: Alexander Gardner.
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Hunting Party.. Alexander Martin (American, 1841 - 1929)
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Amsterdam, Oosterhuis, P., Barracks for an Infantry Regiment in Amersfoort, Photo, yellow-brown, on cardboard, with title above and description below. Inscription; mo: '..Battalion Barracks No 3..', photograph, photo, photos, height 48.5 cm, width 66 cm, photographer, 1892 - 1892, fourth quarter 19th century, cardboard, paper, photography, pasting
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Battery Stevens. Haas & Peale, photographer (American, active 1846 - 1867) 1863 Several parrott rifles of varying sizes are in front of stacks of sandbags and other equipment. Soldiers are standing around the artillery. (Recto, sheet) lower center, light green ink: "Photo by Haas & Peale Morris Island & Hilton Head S.C."; (Recto, sheet) lower right, letterpress label in black ink: "No.29. - Battery Stevens./Two 100-pounder Parrot Rifles. Breaching battery/ against Sumter "; (Verso, sheet) upper right, in pencil: "Fourteen";
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Point Lookout, the northern extremity of Lookout Mountain Tennessee, - including the battle field.... Royan M. Linn & Brother
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View in the Arsenal Yard, Charleston, South Carolina Captured Blakely Guns in the foreground. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative may be available: LC-B811-3096. Cannons, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Carts & wagons, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Confiscations, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, South Carolina, Charleston, Charleston (S.C.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Park of captured guns at Rocketts, Richmond, Va., US, USA, America, Vintage photography
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Captured siege guns, at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-3281. Confiscations, Virginia, Richmond, 1860-1870, Cannons, Virginia, Richmond, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Confederate, Virginia, Richmond, Richmond (Va.), History, 1865.
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Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), east face, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, showing the palmetto works erected to strengthen the fort. Civil War Photograph Collection . War damage, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Girders, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Destruction & pillage, South Carolina, Charleston, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, South Carolina, Charleston.
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Court House in Corinth, Miss., 32nd Regiment I.V., entering Corinth. Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress, Purchase; E. Burns Apfeld; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:188), Blood shed in this war: Civil War illustrations by Captain Adolph Metzner, 32nd Indiana / Michael A. Peake. Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010, p. 124. Courthouses, Mississippi, Corinth, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, Mississippi, Corinth.
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Scene in the Japanese trenches , Soldiers, Trench warfare, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
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Cemetery, Soldier's Home, Washington, D.C. U.S.A. , Cemeteries, Graves, Soldiers' Home National Cemetery U.S.
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Photo collection Deli Society. Photo album Deli Society: "Deli Batavia Rubber Me". Above: Bandar Negri. No II. Hevea-Planting June 1910. Coffee plant April and May 1911 under: Bandar Negri. No IIII. Hevea-Planting December 1909 and Jan / Feb. 1910. Coffee planting November and December 1910. 1908. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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13th New Jersey Inf't. Monument , Battlefields, Monuments & memorials, Sculpture, Historical markers
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The sick and wounded's kits. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.
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View of a large military memorial mounted with a cross, located in a cemetery. The memorial engraving reads 'To the memory of Brigadier General J C N Neill' and the men of the First Madras Fusiliers, soldiers who fell in the Siege of Lucknow (1857). The memorial is surrounded by other tombs with a manicured lawn and trees. Inscribed on negative: Frith's Series. 3042 Cemetery, Lucknow. Caption reads: Neill's Tomb, Lucknow.
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West Point and the Hudson River, New York , Rivers, Cannons, Forts & fortifications
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Battle Field of New Hope Church, GA, No 2 Made 1866 United States. Albumen print, plate 26 from the album Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign (1866) . George N. Barnard
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West Point, Hudson River, N.Y., Cadets' Drill, from the Shore-Battery. Langenheim Brothers Frederick and William Langenheim (American, founded 1842, dissolved 1874)
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March 18, 1871 / Civil War / (Paris) / May 28, 1871 / REDOVTE OF WORLD ALL / N ° 12 (IT)
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Soissons, Aisne, France tombs of soldiers killed in Laffaux in May 1917, during the first battle of Chemin des Dames , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Soissons , Aisne , France Tombes des soldats tués à Laffaux en mai 1917 , lors de la première bataille du Chemin des Dames). Tomb, cemetery, commemorative inscription, flower, funeral inscription, commemoration, front, army, Registration , Information, First World War, Company, France, Soissons, tombs of soldiers killed on May 14 in Laffaux
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South African Cavalry on the march, Pretoria, South Africa Date: 1909
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At El Badreshan, 'Memphis'. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914-1915, Egypt, by Major John Rose.