Destruction Gallery

EVCW2A-00145

Black regiment of the Union army entering Richmond, Virginia, after its own citizens burned ithe city, April 3, 1865, near the end of the Civil War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Valencia Hotel after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906

Fire raging behind the ruins of the Valencia Hotel, where 75 persons died in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

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EVCW2A-00025

US frigate " Merrimac" on fire during Confederate burning of Gosport Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, during the Civil War, 1862.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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