View of King Street from Marion Square After the 1886 Earthquake

Photograph

Historic Charleston Foundation

Marion Square & King Street After 1886 Earthquake

Origformat: Digital Image

Name/Title

View of King Street from Marion Square After the 1886 Earthquake

Entry/Object ID

KING.GEN.007

Description

Photograph (scan) of an 1886 photograph of the grounds of the Old Citadel, now known as Marion Square, and of King Street from the corner of King and Calhoun. Shows several buildings, now lost, from ca. 387 King Street (current site of Francis Marion Hotel) to St. Matthew's Lutheran Church (405 King Street). Photograph is captioned: "German Lutheran Church, Charleston, looking N.W." This photograph evidently was shot several weeks after the August 31, 1886, earthquake because the sheds are still in place around the perimeter of Marion Square. Literally thousands of Charleston residents occupied Marion Square and other parks and open areas in Charleston following the great earthquake. They chose not to return to their houses during the night, fearing that additional earthquake tremors would bring their dwelling down on them. The scene in this photograph catches this untoward way of life before the last of the makesshift shanties were dissembled and thier occupants returned to their homes or other more permanent places of shelter. (South Caroliniana Library Archives.)

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

KING.GEN.

Source or Donor

King Street (General)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Made/Created

Artist

Hillers, John K.

Date made

1886

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Streets

Search Terms

Streets, King Street, Demolished buildings, lost buildings, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Lost architecture--South Carolina--Charleston, Marion Square (Charleston, S.C.), St. Matthew's Lutheran Church (Charleston, S.C.)

Location

Cabinet

Photo File Cabinets

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Date

February 7, 2023

Provenance

Notes

Found online at USC Digital Collections, Charleston Earthquake, 1886, http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/quake/id/344/rec/1. Also at St. Louis University Earthquake Center, "The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina Earthquake," http://www.eas.slu.edu/eqc/eqc_photos/1886EQ/wjmjpgs/wjm_h25.html.

Copyright

Copyright Details

Public domain.

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Create Date

August 27, 2013

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023