Sujet
Part of Casamicciola, Isle of Ischia, after the earthquake, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Part of Casamicciola, Isle of Ischia, after the earthquake, 1881. '...we have...received from a Naples correspondent, R. Michely, several sketches, with photographs, representing the actual effects of this great disaster...Casamicciola, famed for its medicinal springs, is a favourite watering-place for invalids from Naples, being twenty miles distant from that city...Many houses and walls, thrown down by the first shock, which continued only a few seconds, have covered this part with heaps of ruins, from which the dead bodies of the inhabitants were gradually dug out, some of them in a sadly mutilated condition...Two hundred persons were rendered houseless. The theatre and great furnaces for brickmaking have now been turned into habitations, 200 sheds being constructed for the destitute families...The Italian Minister of the Interior has sent 8000f. in aid of the sufferers, the Minister of Grace and Justice 3000f., and the Neapolitan Press 1200f. On the Chamber of Deputies resuming its sittings next day a subscription-list on behalf of the sufferers at Casamicciola was opened; and other subscription-lists have been opened at Rome and Naples, and earnest calls upon the charity of the public are being made'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A42_138
Model release
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Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
22,9Mo (2,4Mo) / 30,0cm x 19,1cm / 3546 x 2253 (300dpi)