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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 1177
Messina Earthquake, 28 December 1908
Refugees waiting for transportation at Messina, Sicily, where USS Culgoa and USS Yankton fed many hungry earthquake survivors. Photographed in January 1909.
Collection of Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, 1928.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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