Exhibit curated by E. Brooke Fox and Susan D. Hoffius, Waring Historical Library.
Exhibit text written by Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius, based on their book Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow.
Exhibit designed and produced by Thomas L. Hamm II, Education and Student Life, and Sherman Paggi, MUSC Library.
Special thanks to Carole F. Bennett, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, for narrating Charlotte Hayden's letter to her sister Sidney.
Photographs and Reproductions
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Citation and Attribution
Please cite this electronic exhibition as a whole as "Faults and Fractures: The Medical Response to the Charleston Earthquake of 1886," an online exhibition of the Waring Historical Library, Medical University of South Carolina Library. Charleston, SC: Waring Historical Library, 2011. URL: http://waring.library.musc.edu/exhibits/EarthQuake/