American Decades
News Coverage of Natural Disasters
The Galveston Hurricane and Flood
Illustration
Date: 1900
Source: The Galveston Hurricane and Flood. 1900. Corbis, Image no. BE057194. Available online at http://pro.corbis.com (accessed June 18, 2003).
"Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco in Ruins"
Newspaper articles
By: The Call-Chronicle-Examiner
Date: April 19, 1906
Source: "Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco in Ruins." The Call-Chronicle-Examiner. April 19, 1906. Available online at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/uc005119.jpg; website home page: http://www.loc.gov (accessed June 18, 2003).
"San Francisco, April 18, 1906"
Photograph
By: Arnold Genthe
Date: April...
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1900's Media Primary Sources
- "Lynch Law in America"
- News Coverage of Natural Disasters
- "'Tabloid Journalism': Its Causes and Effects"
- Political Cartoons Critical of U.S. Imperialism
- Did the New York Journal Kill President McKinley?
- Our National Parks
- "American Progress in Habana"
- The Great Train Robbery
- "The College of Journalism"
- The Shame of the Cities
- "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"
- "The Man with the Muck Rake"
- The Outlook and the Civil Rights Movement
- The Jungle
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
