Adger's Wharf
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Description:
Photograph showing the damage from the earthquake that occurred on August 31, 1886 to a group of storehouses located on Adger's Wharf. Caption on reverse reads, "Series No.2. No.159, Storehouses Adger's Wharf." The 1886 Charleston city directory lists Adger's Wharf as opposite Tradd Street on East Bay.
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: Adger's Wharf
- Photographer: Cook, George LaGrange, 1849-1919
- Date: 1886
- Collection: Photograph Collection
- Object Name: Earthquake of 1886
- Object Id: MK 86
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