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Photo, Print, Drawing View of the Damage from the Hurricane of 1906.

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Title

  • View of the Damage from the Hurricane of 1906.

Summary

  • The sixth hurricane of 1906 was one of 11 hurricanes or tropical cyclones that Atlantic hurricane season. The storm made landfall on September 27, 1906, west of Biloxi, Mississippi, but wreaked its greatest damage from Mobile, Alabama to Pensacola, Florida. The Category 4 hurricane was the most destructive storm to strike the Pensacola area in 170 years. Winds in excess of 105 miles (170 kilometers) per hour stretched past the city and port of Pensacola, and Escambia Bay in the Gulf of Mexico saw a storm surge as high as 14 feet (4.3 meters). This photograph shows the damage wrought to Pensacola Harbor. Steam is still rising from the smokestack of a nearly sunken ship, and the harbor is crammed with tumbled and sagging boats and lined with collapsed warehouses and shattered docks. In the background, a wasted city of shaken buildings stretches to the horizon. The storm caused the deaths of 134 people and millions of dollars in damage in Alabama and Florida.

Names

  • Cottrell-Ashley Studio Photographer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1906.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Florida--Pensacola
  • -  1906
  • -  Boats
  • -  Harbors
  • -  Hurricanes
  • -  Natural disasters
  • -  Ships
  • -  Stranding of ships

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photoprint : black and white ; 8 x 10 inches.
  • -  Original resource at: State Library and Archives of Florida.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669941

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Chicago citation style:

Cottrell-Ashley Studio Photographer. View of the Damage from the Hurricane of. United States of America Florida Pensacola, 1906. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669941/.

APA citation style:

Cottrell-Ashley Studio Photographer. (1906) View of the Damage from the Hurricane of. United States of America Florida Pensacola, 1906. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669941/.

MLA citation style:

Cottrell-Ashley Studio Photographer. View of the Damage from the Hurricane of. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669941/>.