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Earthquake of 1908, Messina, Italy: Cooking a meal - refugees' camp – Historic Print

Earthquake of 1908, Messina, Italy: Cooking a meal - refugees' camp, c1909 July 22. — historic photograph
Earthquake of 1908, Messina, Italy: Cooking a meal - refugees' camp, c1909 July 22.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Survivors cooking a meal in a makeshift camp show daily life after the disaster that struck Messina, on the Strait of Messina in Sicily. The earthquake hit early on December 28, 1908, and was followed by a tsunami that flooded the waterfront, leaving much of the city in ruins and tens of thousands dead. This stereograph was issued by the Keystone View Company, a firm that sold stereo cards widely to American audiences, so viewers at home could see the aftermath through the paired images. The card's record dates the view to about 1909, when relief efforts and temporary shelter were still underway.

Created / publishedc1909 July 22.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsJ130373 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 16821. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dwellings; Earthquakes--Italy--1908; Photog. I.; Italy--Messina--1908; Italy--Sicily--1908; Geogr.; Refugees, Italian--1908; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,371 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146735

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