Beaufain Street, Kitchen

Description:

Photograph showing the damage from the earthquake that occurred on August 31, 1886 to the kitchen of a house on Broad Street. Caption on reverse reads, "Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.171, A Kitchen, Beaufain st."
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.

Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Series No.2. No.171, a kitchen, Beaufain Street.'

• Title: Beaufain Street, Kitchen
• Photographer: Cook, George LaGrange, 1849-1919
• Date: 1886

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Earthquake of 1886
• Object Id: MK 4081

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