Broad and Friend Streets, Tent City
Copyright: The above image is considered Public Domain. Contact The Charleston Museum Archives for publication quality images and credit instructions.
Description:
Photograph showing several tents set up on a small section of grass with two fire wagons parked near the curb. Several people (displaced from the earthquake) are seated underneath makeshift shelters posing for the photographer. Handwritten at bottom reads, "Corner of Broad & Friend Streets, Firemens [sic] Tent." Friend Street is now Legare Street.
- Title: Broad and Friend Streets, Tent City
- Photographer: Unattributed
- Date: [1886]
- Collection: Photograph Collection
- Object Name: Earthquake of 1886
- Object Id: MK 4085
- Search Terms