Photographic Print

Object number
p4964
Date
September 1938
Description
Photograph of the wreckage and destruction caused by the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 in a cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. The hurricane made landfall in Newport on September 21, 1938, and caused massive destruction across the coast. Depicted in the photograph is a man attempting to walk through the flooding caused at the cemetery where only one grave can be seen above the water.
Materials
photographic paper
Object Type
photographic prints
Subjects
Hurricane of 1938