RMD98XFK–Austin Dam Disaster, RR Bridge, Costello [1911] In September 1911, the failure of the Austin Dam in Potter County, Pennsylvania was a heart-breaking, life-changing disaster. News of the failed dam was published in newspapers as far away as New York City and California. The failure of the concrete dam in Austin was the second most devastating dam failure in Pennsylvania history, following the horrific flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
RMF7NKT1–The Elephants Foot of the Chernobyl disaster.
RMD98BM0–The great Titanic disaster -Captain Smith of the Titanic 1912
RMF7NF1J–Pre-disaster postcard, front depicting the Titanic. Dated 1907
RMD98XFH–Marianna, PA. mine disaster, wrecked tipple November 30, 1908
RMD98BN8–Group of survivors of the Titanic disaster aboard the Carpathia after being rescued. 1912.
RMD98M6X–Survivors of the Titanic disaster 1912. Louis and Michel Navratil, of Nice, France, on their mother's lap.
RMEC7RGX–Group made orphans by Cherry Mine disaster where 400 men were entombed; Nov. 13; 1909; Cherry; Illinois
RM2K08DK4–The Fenland Floods disaster of 1947. Photograph of the waters of the Wissey break through the sandbags on the Ely-Kings Lynn road
RMD96P2H–Tay Bridge disaster 28 December 1879. Wreckage on the beach at Broughty Ferry. Engraving from 'The Illustrated London News', 1879.
RMD96P2K–Tay Bridge disaster, 28 December 1779. View of broken bridge from north end. Engraving from 'The Illustrated London News', 1879.
RMD98RCJ–Titanic disaster, 12 April 1912: USA Senate Investigating Committee questioning survivors at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, 29 May 1912.
RMD98BMK–[TITANIC disaster. Senate Investigating Committee questioning individuals at the Waldorf Astoria] Date Created/Published: c1912 May 29. Medium: 1 photographic print.
RMD98XF1–The great mill disaster! c1878. photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. Washburn Mill as it appeared when the explosion occurred, Minneapolis, Minn., May 2, 1878.
RMD98XEY–The great mill disaster! c1878. photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. Washburn Mill as it appeared when the explosion occurred, Minneapolis, Minn., May 2, 1878.
RMF7NNJR–The Hindenburg disaster. The German passenger airship caught fire during its attempt to dock with a mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst resulting in 36 dead.
RMD96P2N–Tay Bridge disaster, 28 December 1879. Steam launches and divers' barge taking part in the search of the wreckage. Engraving from 'The Illustrated London News', 1879.
RMKJ5FDG–Illustration depicting the river disaster of the 10th Hussars during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The illustration depicts the drowning of a whole squadron in the Kubal River. Dated 19th Century
RMD98BN0–At White Star office after TITANIC disaster. Summary: Photo related to the disaster of the RMS TITANIC, which struck an iceberg in April 1912 and sank, killing more than 1,500 people.
RMD95M3N–Rescuing a miner after a pit disaster. The rescuer is using Royquayrol's breathing apparatus. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.
RMD95M3J–Rescuing a miner after a pit disaster. The rescuer is using Galibert's breathing apparatus. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.
RMEC7WY2–Johannisthal Air Disaster: Zeppelin L' airship is destroyed by an explosion caused by escaped hydrogen being sucked into an engine compartment during a test flight on 17 October 1913; the entire crew was killed.
RMD98RCR–Titanic disaster, 12 April 1912: USA Senate Investigating Committee questioning survivors at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York. The wireless operator Harold Thomas Coffin being questioned, 29 May 1912.
RMEX6NJC–The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States
RMD98XFG–Johnstown disaster, May 31, 1889. Conemaugh Valley. photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. Man seated on hill in foreground after the floods in Johnstown Pennsylvania,1880-1890.
RMKCEWWE–Photograph taken during the Hindenburg disaster. A German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed whilst attempting to dock at the Naval Air Station Lakehurst. Dated 20th Century
RMKCEWWC–Photograph taken during the Hindenburg disaster. A German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed whilst attempting to dock at the Naval Air Station Lakehurst. Dated 20th Century
RMD98AP6–Hurricane Katrina 2005, was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods
RMD98XF7–Cardiff mine disaster [1913 Oct.] Photo shows the Sengenydd Colliery Disaster, Sengenydd, Wales. 439 men died in an explosion or from being trapped in the damaged shafts on 14 October 1913.
RMD98XFJ–Cherry Mine disaster, crowd at mouth of shaft. The Cherry Mine Disaster is the name for the events surrounding a fire in the Cherry, Illinois, USA coal mine in 1909 in which 259 men and boys died
RMD98XEG–Kearney St. and Hall of Justice after the great disaster, San Francisco, U.S.A. c1907. photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. showing ruins following the earthquake and fire in San Francisco, 1906.
RM2K0A8Y4–The Senghenydd colliery disaster, also known as the Senghenydd explosion, occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales, on 14 October 1913. The explosion, which killed 439 miners and a rescuer, is the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom
RM2K08CX4–The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. The accident caused 35 fatalities from the 97 people on board and an additional fatality on the ground
RM2K08AP7–The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, and overlaid a natural spring. A period of heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry, killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed Pantglas Junior School and a row of houses. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board (NCB), and the subsequent inquiry placed the blame for the disaster on the organisation and nine na
RMKJ5HPX–The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States
RMEC7M8F–The 1953 North Sea flood (Dutch, Watersnoodramp) was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland.
RMD9DJM3–Colliery explosion at Llanerch, Monmouthshire, Wales, 1890
RMG2N0A0–shipwreck oil painting by Simon de vlieger (1600-1660)
RMG2N0AA–The Loss of the Falmouth Packet Lady Hobart, wrecked on an ‘Island of Ice’, 28 June 1803
RMD9DJMK–Colliery explosion at Llanerch, Monmouthshire, Wales, 1890. More stretchers being taken to the pithead.
RMG2N0A9–the Bridgewater 1830 demasted in a hurricane off Madras India. aquatint in colour by Edward Duncan
RMD9DJNB–Colliery explosion at Llanerch, Monmouthshire, Wales, 1890. The midnight shift waiting to go down the shaft to recover bodies.
RMD9DJNF–Colliery explosion at Llanerch, Monmouthshire, Wales, 1890. Grieving relatives walking ahead of men carrying their loved one's
RMDYEM5A–A commentary by The Times on the depressed state of the American economy, particularly in New York, during the financial panic of 1837.
RMDYEM4R–Crowd of depositors gather in the rain outside the Bank of United States after its failure. 1931.
RMG2N0A2–In February 1784 a mail packet ship called the Nancy foundered among the Western Rocks of Scilly. She was on route home from India under the Command of Captain John Haldane 'of Gleneagles'.
RMG2N0AC–the burning of the ocean monarch 1848. Ocean Monarch was an emigration barque which in 1848 caught fire at sea and sank with the loss of 178 lives. The barque was owned by the White Diamond Line and was registered in Boston
RMG2N0A7–wreck of the lady burges aquatint in colour by h. Merke after j. F. Sartorius 1806. The wreck of the Lady Burges East India Ship Captn. Archd. Swinton. Amongst the Cape de Verd Islands April 21, 1806
RMG2N0A5–The Halswell was an East Indiaman that was wrecked on 6 January 1786 at the start of a voyage from London to Madras. She lost her masts in a violent storm in the English Channel, and was driven onto the rocks below a cliff on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England.
RMG2N0AB–The Kent was an East Indiaman, a vessel sailing for the British East India Company, and launched in 1820. She completed two voyages to Bombay and China for the Company and was on her third voyage, to Bengal and China, when a fire at in the Bay of Biscay destroyed her. Her captain for all three voyages was Henry Cobb
RMDYF1E3–Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health. Father an auto mechanic labourer, painter by trade, tubercular. Family has been on relief in Arizona but refused entry on relief roles in Iowa to which state they wish to return. Nine children including a sick four-month-old baby. No money at all. About to sell their belongings and trailer for money to buy food. 'We don't want to go where we'll be a nuisance to anybody' 1936
RMDYENF4–Master of the St. Elizabeth Panels (fl. circa 1490-1495) uter right wing of an altarpiece with the St Elizabeth’s Day flood,
RMEX6G0T–The Flame Barrier (1958) science fiction disaster film
RMEC7T2G–Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced, co-edited and partly financed by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.
RM2CWBF7T–City on the Rock', c1878-1918. Artist: Eugenio Lucas Villamil. Eugenio Lucas Villamil (1858-1918) was a Spanish costumbrista painter. Many of his works were painted similarly and are often confused with Francisco de Goya's work.
RM2CWBGD5–View of Delft, Netherlands, after the fire' by Jan Vermeer, c1658.
RM2CWBJ2M–Newspapers reporting on the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
RMKJ5HT1–Tangshan earthquake, China. 1976. The Tangshan earthquake, also known as the Great Tangshan earthquake, is believed to be the largest earthquake of the 20th century by death toll. The epicentre of the earthquake was near Tangshan in Hebei, People's Republic of China, an industrial city with approximately one million inhabitants. The number of deaths initially reported by the Chinese government was 655,000
RMKJ5HPC–Tangshan, China, Earthquake July 28, 1976 Devastation in Tangshan after the earthquake
RMKJ5J6E–Tangshan, China, Earthquake July 28, 1976 The Chengli Bridge in Tangshan
RMKJ5HN7–Tangshan, China, Earthquake July 28 1976 Damage at Tangshan Rolling Stock Plant
RMKJ5HN5–Tangshan, China, Earthquake 1976
RMKJ5HN4–Tangshan, China, Earthquake 1976 The Tangshan People's Bank, a four- story concrete and brick building
RMD9DAMD–Inhabitants fleeing their blazing homes and taking to boats on the River Thames during the Great Fire of London, 1666. 19th century illustration.
RM2CWBME0–Black and white photograph of the dirigible Hindenburg exploding in the USA on 6 May 1937.
RM2CWBMK8–Black and white photograph of buildings in ruins in Marseilles, perhaps after the Great Fire of Marseilles on 28 October 1938.
RM2CWBMEX–Black and white photograph of the Great Flood of the Ohio River, USA, in March 1937; photograph of the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, inundated.
RM2CWBNGX–Illustration showing The Great Fire of London swept through the central parts of the English city from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall. It threatened but did not reach the Westminster, Charles II's Palace of Whitehall, or most of the suburban slums. It destroyed 13,200 house. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants
RMDYEN60–Two small coffins being carried on stretchers to cemetery in the Volga famine district of Bolshevist Russia circa 1921
RMDYENY2–The plague of locusts in Palestine (Israel), March-June 1915. Locusts devouring a thistle 1915.
RMDYEN4P–Fig tree after devastation by locusts, Palestine (Israel) 1915
RMDYEBGB–RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,502 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.
RMDYEBGA–RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,502 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.
RMD98MBW–HMS Carpahia The ship which rescued victims of the Titanic disaster 1912
RMD98MBC–HMS Carpahia The ship which rescued victims of the Titanic disaster 1912
RMD9DPK0–The Great Plague of London, 1665. The Manic preaching doom and disaster. Engraving c1880.
RMD9DRW8–Zulu War: Disaster at Isandhlwana (Isandula) 21 January 1879. Zulu warriors overwhelming Briths.
RM2K08BF2–Funeral of one of the victims of an explosion near Kilsyth on the same day as the Scottish pit disaster in 1938
RMHHEDFC–Engraving of Vandenbergh's Sea Messenger used for conveying to the shore news of a maritime disaster. Dated 19th Century
RMDYEBH8–German satirical cartoon showing Ludwig Erhard (German Chancellor leading Germany to disaster. Circa 1966
RMD98XFA–fter the earthquake - steel frame remains from a skyscraper which collapsed during the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Disaster
RMDYEJHX–Hartley Colliery Pit Disaster, Northumberland, 16 January 1862. Friends and families waiting at the pit head for news. Engraving, London, 1862.
RMDYEJHW–Hartley Colliery Pit Disaster, Northumberland, 16 January 1862. 220 lives were lost. Burying the pitman near Earsdon Church. Engraving, London, 1862.
RMD96TGF–Explorers going down the pit shaft at Seaham Colliery, County Durham, England to begin rescue operations after the disaster of September 1880. Engraving c1895.
RMD9DM57–Zulu War: Disaster at Isandhlwana (Isandula) - Lieutenants Melville and Coghill attempting to rescue the British colours. They died fighting, their horses killed from under them, 21 January 1879.
RMD95M20–Inundation in a mine. Flooded mine workings with bodies of miners drowned in the disaster. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.
RMD96GM1–The loss of SS Titanic, 14 April 1912: Prayers at the scene of the disaster. The White Star Line chartered the cable-laying
RMD98WT0–Help!', 1921.Soviet propaganda poster by Dmitry Moor. The Russian famine, also called the Povolzhye famine 1921-1922 is estimated to have killed 5 million. Russia USSR Communism Communist Disaster
RM2K02J1N–Down with new American missiles from Europe!, 'No nuclear disaster!', 'North of Europe a nuclear-free zone!' - Over 70 thousand people took to the streets of Copenhagen with these slogans. Denmark, 1983
RMD98NHM–Survivors of the loss of RMS Titanic: Michel and Edmond Navratil (aged 4 and 2), French brothers whose father died in the disaster of 12 April 1912, but who were identified and reunited with their mother. Shipwreck
RMD98RTP–Loss of RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on 12 April 1912. Wireless operator on SS Carpathia receiving distress message: Captain Smith of the Titanic: Lifboats bringing survivors to the Carpathia. Shipwreck Disaster
RMD98BTD–Survivors of TITANIC on CARPATHIA. Date Created/Published: [1912 April]. Summary: Photo related to the disaster of the RMS TITANIC, which struck an iceberg in April 1912 and sank, killing more than 1,500 people.
RMD9BNHM–Statue of the Goddess Sekhmet, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1390-1152 B.C. Sakhmet represented the forces of violence, unexpected disaster and illness. She had the head of a lioness and the disk identifies her as the daughter of the sun god.
RMD9BNJ1–Statue of the Goddess Sekhmet, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1390-1152 B.C. Sakhmet represented the forces of violence, unexpected disaster and illness. She had the head of a lioness and the disk identifies her as the daughter of the sun god.
RMD98NJG–Captain Arthur Rostron and under officers of RMS Carpathia (Cunard), with loving cup presented to him by survivors of wreck of RMS Titanic (White Star Line), 12 April 1912 in recognition of his heroism in the rescue. Shipwreck Disaster
RMD992G7–The Last Day of Pompeii', 1830-1833. Oil on canva. Karl Briullov (1799 –1852) Russian painter. Depiction of panic of the citizens of Pompeii, Italy, at the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 79 AD. Volcanic Disaster Neoclassicism Romanticism
RMD98BPT–Title: Geo. Cohan at TITANIC Game. Date Created/Published: [1912 April 21]. Summary: Photo shows George M. Cohan at baseball game to raise funds for the survivors of the RMS Titanic disaster, Polo Grounds, New York City.
RMD98TM1–Loss of White Star Line's Olympic-class RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on 12 April 1912 on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. A Titanic lifeboat reaching the Carpathia. More than 1,500 lives lost. Disaster
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