Blizzard of 1899 (Consumer's Wharf)
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Description:
Black and white photograph of two men unloading lumber from a horse-drawn wagon. Sams captured the coal yard of Consumers Coal Company located at Central Wharf after the blizzard. Caption with negative reads, "Consumer's Wharf in the Snow." Printed from a glass plate negative held in the Museum's collections.
The "Great Blizzard of 1899" or the "Great Arctic Outbreak of 1899" brought a mixture of snow and sleet to Charleston on February 11 - 12, with reported temperatures of 7?F and four inches of snow.
- Title: Blizzard of 1899 (Consumer's Wharf)
- Photographer: Sams, Franklin Frost (Dr.), 1867-1937
- Date: [February 11-13,1899]
- Collection: Photograph Collection
- Object Name: Franklin Frost Sams Photographs
- Object Id: MK 7625
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