[Earthquake, Kingston, Jamaica, 1907]: At one of the refugee camps on the race course – Vintage Wall Art
![[Earthquake, Kingston, Jamaica, 1907]: At one of the refugee camps on the race course, c1907. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9c/9ce2fc8be083-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Earthquake, Kingston, Jamaica, 1907]: At one of the refugee camps on the race course. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Earthquake, Kingston, Jamaica, 1907]: At one of the refugee camps on the race course
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Tent shelters on the race course mark this card as a view of how Kingston's survivors lived in the weeks after the earthquake of January 14, 1907. With many houses and public buildings destroyed, open grounds like the race course filled with families who had nowhere else to go. The stereograph was issued by the H.C. White Company, a firm known for mass-produced stereo views sold to households and schools in the early twentieth century. Viewed through a stereoscope, the pairs of images give a sense of depth and of the crowded, makeshift camp that the printed caption alone cannot convey.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 8771. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Jamaica--Hist.; Earthquakes--1907; Jamaica--Kingston; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 787 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139948 |
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