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1. Horse Creek near Augusta

Horse Creek near Augusta
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Earthquake, August 31st, 1886. No.1, Engine of No.2. Horse Creek near Augusta. Aiken and Vicinity.'

2. Robb's Lot

Robb's Lot
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.149, Robb's Lot.' Handwritten on reverse: ' Robb's Lot E. side [of] King bet[ween] Market & Horlbeck.'

3. Horse Creek near Augusta

Horse Creek near Augusta
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Earthquake, August 31st, 1886. No.2, Cars to No.1. Horse Creek near Augusta. Aiken and Vicinity.'

4. Ten Mile Hill, fissure under house

Ten Mile Hill, fissure under house
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.52, fissure under house, Ten Mile Hill.'

5. Oak Grove, two foot fissure

Oak Grove, two foot fissure
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.146, 2 foot fissure, Oak Grove.'

6. Oak Grove, four foot fissure

Oak Grove, four foot fissure
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Series No.2. No.147, 4 foot fissure, Oak Grove.'

7. Ten Mile Hill, fissure

Ten Mile Hill, fissure
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.51, Wide fissure, Ten Mile Hill.' Handwritten at bottom, front: 'Charleston Earthquake scene - Large geyser near Ten Mile Hill.'

9. Washington Square, tent village

Washington Square, tent village
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake scene. Tent village in Washington Square (also known as City Hall Park).

10. Washington Square, tent village

Washington Square, tent village
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake scene. Tent village in Washington Square (also known as City Hall Park).

11. chasm to left of South Carolina railroad

chasm to left of South Carolina railroad
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake scene. Handwritten on reverse: '9 mile bottom - South Carolina railroad - chasm on left. Track was originally a tangent. Caused by earthquake, 1886. Track cut of line.'

12. landslide on the Ashley

landslide on the Ashley
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.148, Landslide on the Ashley.' Handwritten at bottom, front: 'Charleston Earthquake view - Land slide near Summerville, S.C.'

13. Marion Square, tent village

Marion Square, tent village
Date:
1886
Description:
Handwritten at bottom, front: 'Charleston Earthquake scene - Marion Square - Citadel Academy in rear.' Tent village populated primarily by African-Americans. Policeman standing to the right.

14. train wreck at Langley

train wreck at Langley
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Earthquake, August 31st, 1886. No.634, Wrecked at Langley. Aiken and Vicinity.'

15. Ten Mile Hill, fissure

Ten Mile Hill, fissure
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake scene. Possibly a copy of one of Cook's Earthquake Views. Three men and a boy standing near a fissure at Ten Mile Hill.

16. Adger's Wharf

Adger's Wharf
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Series No.2. No.159, Storehouses Adger's Wharf.' Charleston city directory for 1886 lists Adger's Wharf as opposite Tradd Street on East Bay.

17. family tent

family tent
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.100, a family tent.' Image of an African-American nanny with three children.

18. Marion Square

Marion Square
Date:
1886
Description:
Handwritten at bottom, front: 'Earthquake ruins. Marion Square. Charleston, So.Ca.'

19. Ten Mile Hill, two geysers

Ten Mile Hill, two geysers
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.50, Two geysers, Ten Mile Hill.'

20. Ten Mile Hill, geyser

Ten Mile Hill, geyser
Date:
1886
Description:
Catption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.53, Long geyser, Ten Mile Hill.'

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