- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Messina Earthquake Photographs Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/r494vk23z
- Dates:
- 1908
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.6 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- Italian
Abstract
Consists of one hundred and seventeen black-and-white, silver gelatin prints of the destruction and the aftermath caused by the earthquake in Messina, Italy, in 1908.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of one hundred and seventeen black-and-white, silver gelatin prints (6.5 x 5 in.) of the destruction and the aftermath caused by the earthquake in Messina, Italy, in 1908. The photographs are divided into 2 groups. One group consists of forty-seven photographs with a white border. Most are numbered, though the photographs do not represent a complete numbered set. They are dated, and each print bears location information either printed or handwritten in Italian. The second group consists of seventy photographs with no white borders. They are not dated, and the only information of the location is written in pencil on the verso of each print, also in Italian. A few of these photographs have printed on the verso "Guglielmo Schlatter, Catania."
Collection History
- Acquisition:
AM 1995-68.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Jill Baron in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Messina Earthquake Photographs Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/r494vk23z
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Buildings -- Earthquake effects -- Italy -- Messina.
Earthquakes -- Italy, 1908-1909. - Genre Terms:
- Gelatin silver prints -- 20th century
Photographs -- 20th century. - Places:
- Messina (Italy) -- Earthquake, 1908.
Messina (Italy) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Messina (Italy) -- Photographs.
