Disasters

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DIS5.
B.W. Kilburn. 11304. Rutger and Seventh Sts., where seven lives were lost, St. Louis Tornado. VG. $50


DIS22.
Boehl & Koenig's Views of St. Louis and Vicinity, St. Louis. St. Nichalus Hotel, 4th & Morgan after the fire Jany 4, '84. VG. $100


DIS23.
Boehl & Koenig's Views of St. Louis and Vicinity, St. Louis. St. Nichalus Hotel, 4th & Morgan after the fire Jany 4, '84. VG. $100

  
DIS24.
A.E. Alden, Springfield, Mass., and Providence, R.I. This view shows a dead woman, a victim of the Johnstown Flood. VG. $75


DIS26.
J.H. Abbott. Stereoscopic Views of Chicago Ruins. 5th National Bank & Court House. VG. $25

  
DIS29.
B.W. Kilburn. 5250. The City of Canvas, where Johnstown was, Pa. VG. $15

     
DIS30.
Thos. T. Sweeny, Cleveland, O. The Great Chicago Fire, October 16, 1871. Rev. Dr. Collyers Church. G. $20

     
DIS31.
Thos. T. Sweeny, Cleveland, O. The Great Chicago Fire, October 16, 1871. Pacific Hotel. VG. $25

     
DIS32.
Thos. T. Sweeny, Cleveland, O. The Great Chicago Fire, October 16, 1871. Sherman House. VG. $20

     
DIS33.
Thos. T. Sweeny, Cleveland, O. The Great Chicago Fire, October 16, 1871. Chambers of Commerce & Court House. G. $20

     
DIS35.
Thos. T. Sweeny, Cleveland, O. The Great Chicago Fire, October 16, 1871. Laying 1st Corner Stone. VG. $50

     
DIS36.
Thos. T. Sweeny, Cleveland, O. The Great Chicago Fire, October 16, 1871. Cathedral. VG. $20

  
DIS38.
Geo. Barker, Niagara Falls, NY. The Johnstown Calamity. Wreck at the Stone Bridge. G. $35


Dis39.
B.W. Kilburn. 5249. How and where they live, Johnstown, Pa. VG. $25


Dis42.
Keystone. 2249. A Characteristic Corner, Illinois Ave., St. Louis, Mo., May 27th, 1896. This is a very early Keystone issue with copyright line 1896 by B.L. Singley. G. $35


Dis43.
U&U. 9446. A fearful Flood Torrent, sweeping away a city. June, 1903, State Line Street, Kansas City. VG. $35



Dis49.
U&U. 10506. One of the best streets where people were killed by falling walls, Bagnara. VG. $35


Dis52.
U&U. 10496. Ruined Church of Souls in Purgatory-digging for worshippers' bodies, Messina, Sicily. VG. $30


Dis54.
U&U. 10500. The terrible work of the earthquake-a corpse in the wreckage, Messina, Sicily. VG. $35

  
Dis57.
Kilburn Brother, Littleton, NH. Ruins of the Great Fire in Boston, in November, 1872. No. 1030. View from Pearl Street. VG. $25

     
Dis59.
Copelin & Hine, Chicago, Ill. Views of the Ruins of Chicago, October, 1871. Kirk, Coleman & Co.'s Salamander Iron Mine, from Chicago Fire, October 9th, 1871. Back of the card is an advertisement for Kirk, Coleman & Co. VG. $75

  
Dis61.
U&U. 8200. After the greatest of modern catastrophes--Market St. N.E. past the Call Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. VG. $20

  
Dis62.
U&U. 8197. Homeless among ruins of former wealth--crude shelter in Union Square, San Francisco, Cal. VG. $25


Dis64.
Geo. Barker, Niagara Falls, NY. The Johnstown Calamity. General View of the Wrecked City. Body, real or posed, in the wreckage. G. $30


Dis65.
J.P. Soule. Ruins of the Great Fire in Portland, Me., July 4th, 1866. No. 495. India from Congress Street, looking east. Bottom right part of back of card is peeled. G. $20


Dis66.
J.P. Soule. Ruins of the Great Fire in Portland, Me., July 4th, 1866. No. 473. Canal Bank Building and portion of Middle St. from U.S. Custom House. VG. $35


Dis67.
J.P. Soule. Ruins of the Great Fire in Portland, Me., July 4th, 1866. No. 476. Looking Northerly across Federal and Congress Streets, from U.S. Custom House. VG. $30


Dis68.
J.P. Soule. Ruins of the Great Fire in Portland, Me., July 4th, 1866. No. 467. Brown's Sugar Refinery. VG. $35


Dis69.
Pollard, Haverhill, NH. 3 stereoviews of a train wreck disaster. 2 are VG; one has a scrape on right image, so Fair. $75


Dis71.
U&U. 8207. Police Headquarters in the ruined City-St. Dominick's Church beyond-San Francisco, Cal. VG. $25


Dis72.
U&U. 8273. Life in San Francisco after the great disaster-cooking in the streets-Cal. VG. $25


Dis73.
International Stereograph Co., Decatur, Illinois. 20650. Refugees preparing a meal on the rudest of ovens, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Disaster. Copyright 1906 by C.L. Wasson. VG. $50


Dis74.
Keystone. 17359. Ruins of Krinsky Home. In this Immediate Vicinity over Fifty Lives were Lost in Tornado of March 23, 1913, Omaha, Nebr. VG. $35


Dis75.
Keystone. 13217-Freight Cars Ravaged by Fire and Flood, Kansas City, Mo. VG. $30


Dis76.
Universal View Co. The seething waters of the Kansas Flood, from 3rd and Sandusky Sts., Kansas City, Ks., May 1903. Coprighted 1903 by William H. Rau. VG. $30


Dis77.
Universal View Co. The Rescuers came too late. In the Swamp after the Flood, Kansas City, Ks. Flood of 1902. Copyrighted 1903  by William H. Rau. VG. $30


Dis78.
U&U. A Home torn to pieces by the Great Flood, June, 1903, Kansas City, Mo. VG. $25


Dis79.
B.W. Kilburn. 15857. Wrecked Kansas Ave. Bridge, the flood, North Topeka, Kan. VG. $35


Dis80.
U&U. On Harrison Street, wrecked by the Great 1903 Flood, North Topeka, Ks. VG. $20


Dis81.
Universal View Co. An Unfortunate, caught in the Drift. K.C., Ks. Flood, May, 1903. Copyrighted 1903 by William H. Rau. VG. $35


Dis82.
Keystone. 13228-High and Dry but Forlorn and Desolate, E. St. Louis, Ill. VG. $25


Dis83.
B.W. Kilburn. 11305. Taking out the dead, St. Louis Tornado. VG. $35


Dis84.
Keystone. 20118-Building Dikes to Protect the City from the Flood, East St. Louis, Ill. VG. $25


Dis85.
Keystone. 16804-Placing Corpse in Coffin for Burial, Messina, Italy. VG. $35


Dis86.
U&U. 10498-Hole in ruins where a woman was taken out alive after ten days, Messina, Sicily. VG. $25


Dis87.
Keystone. 16806-Street of the 20th of September-Toward the Dome, Messina, Italy. VG. $30


Dis88.
B.W. Kilburn. 17297. Costly Palaces transformed into shattered fragments in a moment, Great Earthquake Disaster, Messina, Italy. VG. $25


Dis89.
B.W. Kilburn. 17321. Amid the desolation of Messina, Great Earthquake Disaster, Italy. VG. $35


Dis90.
B.W. Kilburn. 17305. After the shock and tremor of the World's Greatest Earthquake, Messina, Italy. VG. $35


Dis93.
B.W. Kilburn. 17302. The vast area of complete devastation, Great Earthquake Disaster, Messina, Italy. Variant of previous view. VG. $35


Dis94.
B.W. Kilburn. 17309. In the heart of Messina after the Great Earthquake Disaster, Italy. VG. $35


Dis96.
B.W. Kilburn. 17316. In the wake of the Great Earthquake Disaster, Messina, Italy. VG. $35


Dis97.
Great Volcanic Disaster, St. Pierre, Martinique, F.W.I. 3 views by U&U; 5 by Keystone; 1 by Kilburn. Nine in all. VG. $50

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