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207 photos and 2 illustrations tagged disasters, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• debris
• bridgefailures
• railroadbridges
• scotland
• rivertay
• dundee
• railway
• tay
• railwaybridge
• taybridgedisaster
• photographicprints
• organization:library=nationallibraryofscotland
• owner:name=nationallibraryofscotland
• nls:source=solrxml
• nls:dodprojectid=74466699
• tayfirthof
• taybridgedisasterdundeescotland1879
• damage
• bridgesbuiltworks
• pierssupportingelements
• ruins
• salvage
• southwest
• texas

Members using this tag

• National Library of Scotland 91 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 37 photos & illustrations
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 31 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 24 photos & illustrations
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 8 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 5 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 4 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 3 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 2 photos & illustrations
• Nasjonalbiblioteket 1 photo / illustration
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• Library Company of Philadelphia 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

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Wreckage salvaged from the collapsed Tay Bridge

from National Library of Scotland

• g_ponsonby said:

  Part of the guard's ban. The wheel for applying the handbrake can be seen clearly - virtually the only item left above the solebar.

Tay Bridge from north

from National Library of Scotland

• bill Dryden said:

  It looks so frail.

• lanswyfte said:

  I'm sorry, but isn't the date incorrect? If this photo truly was taken before the collapse, then it couldn't have been taken at any time after December 28, 1879.

General view Showing the Storm's Work at Galveston, Texas.

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

• Chris Hester said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Photo Shapes and I'd love you to join and add this photo to my group! Plus any other suitable photos you'd like to add. Thanks!