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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Forest fire fighter. Para-fireman.

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

Licking blocks of ice on hot day.

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

Buried farm machinery. Cimarron County, Oklahoma.

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.

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

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

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

Four generations of a family

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

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

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

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

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.

Four generations of a family

Forest fire fighter. Para-fireman.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Licking blocks of ice on hot day.

Buried farm machinery. Cimarron County, Oklahoma.

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

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

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

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

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