Natural Disasters

Images of avalanches, blizzards, droughts and dust storms, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, heat waves, hurricanes, landslides, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and waterspouts from the 16th to the 21st centuries.

Library of Congress

19 images

Collapsed roof following snow storm on January 28, 1922. Knickerbocker Theater located on the southwest corner of 18th Street and Columbia Road, N.W., Washington

Two African American women search through rubble following a violent hurricane which devasted most of Galveston

Representation of waterspouts at St. Jago de la Vega in Jamaica

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Big Blow" at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York City,

Buried farm machinery. Cimarron County, Oklahoma.

On the ruins (April 1906), Chinatown, San Francisco.

Poster for forest fire prevention showing a burning cigarette and a forest fire.

Stereo shows two Victorian houses that have fallen off of their foundations after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906.

Drought victim, girl in Duncan Consolidated School in Mississippi, eating cookies with currants, which came from Greece through the Junior Red Cross of that land.

African Americans at a tent camp as a result of the Mississippi River flood.

Barber Shop located in Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Galveston's awful calamity - Gulf tidal wave, September 8th 1900.

Ruins of New Richmond following a disaster, probably a tornado.

Red Cross food orders and free seed for quarter acre garden plots are given white and colored farmers by the Red Cross chapter at Cleveland, Mississippi.

Block of burned buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake with fire truck spraying water on them.

Bird's-eye-view of ruins of San Francisco from captive airship, 600 feet above Folsom between Fifth and Sixth Sts.

Licking blocks of ice on hot day.

View of street in San Francisco, California, earthquake aftermath with man patrolling with gun.

Forest fire fighter. Para-fireman.

Collapsed roof following snow storm on January 28, 1922. Knickerbocker Theater located on the southwest corner of 18th Street and Columbia Road, N.W., Washington

African Americans at a tent camp as a result of the Mississippi River flood.

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Big Blow" at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York City,

Block of burned buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake with fire truck spraying water on them.

Licking blocks of ice on hot day.

Stereo shows two Victorian houses that have fallen off of their foundations after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906.

Drought victim, girl in Duncan Consolidated School in Mississippi, eating cookies with currants, which came from Greece through the Junior Red Cross of that land.

Barber Shop located in Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Ruins of New Richmond following a disaster, probably a tornado.

Red Cross food orders and free seed for quarter acre garden plots are given white and colored farmers by the Red Cross chapter at Cleveland, Mississippi.

On the ruins (April 1906), Chinatown, San Francisco.

View of street in San Francisco, California, earthquake aftermath with man patrolling with gun.

Forest fire fighter. Para-fireman.

Two African American women search through rubble following a violent hurricane which devasted most of Galveston

Representation of waterspouts at St. Jago de la Vega in Jamaica

Galveston's awful calamity - Gulf tidal wave, September 8th 1900.

Buried farm machinery. Cimarron County, Oklahoma.

Bird's-eye-view of ruins of San Francisco from captive airship, 600 feet above Folsom between Fifth and Sixth Sts.

Poster for forest fire prevention showing a burning cigarette and a forest fire.

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