Accommodation Wharf
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Description:
Photograph showing the damage from the earthquake that occurred on August 31, 1886 to a building located near Accommodation Wharf. Caption on reverse reads, "Series 2 No.157, scene near Accommodation Wharf". The 1886 Charleston city directory lists Accommodation Wharf as opposite 176 East Bay Street.
George LaGrange Cook was a well-known photographer in Charleston who photographed the destruction of the 1886 earthquake soon after it happened, producing a series of images titled "Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity" that could be purchased as souvenirs.
- Title: Accommodation Wharf
- Photographer: Cook, George LaGrange, 1849-1919
- Date: 1886
- Collection: Photograph Collection
- Object Name: Earthquake of 1886
- Object Id: MK 87a
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