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Ruins of ancient trees on Boston Common - The Great New England Hurricane of 1938

Price: $14.95
  

Stock #: 802373
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
City: Boston
State: Massachusetts (MA)
County: Suffolk
Publisher: Tichnor Bros Inc.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Additional Details:
September 21, 1938 will long be remembered as the date of the disastrous hurricane which swept New England, an upheaval of nature seldom, if ever known to this part of the country. In its wake it left behind a horrible death toll of over 600, with another 100 persons still missing; nearly 6000 homes were nearly completely destroyed and the total damage amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars. The fury of the wind crippled power, light, and telephone systems, uprooted hundreds of thousands of great trees and countless smaller trees, and wrecked an untold amount of boats and small craft.

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