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| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the Pinckney Mansion with rubble in the street after General Sherman's men burned the town near the end of the Civil War. Plate 59 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | The ruins of a church in Columbia after General Sherman's men burned the town near the end of the Civil War. Plate 54 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Destruction of Columbia after General Sherman's men burned the town near the end of the Civil War. Plate 53 |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a farmhouse, windmill, and an adjacent barn, all standing in a dilapidated yard. A partially collapsed fence is in the foreground, and wha... |
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| Description: | View of a water pump near the door of a dilapidated house, overgrown with vines. |
| Date: | 10 1930 |
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| Description: | View across a road and field of several rundown farm buildings located near a farmhouse. The image was used to illustre: "poor farm buildings." |
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| Description: | View across river of several houses and other buildings standing at the edge of the Chippewa River. One building has stilts supporting the back porch over ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | The house built by Charles A. Grignon between 1837 and 1839 for Mary Meade, his Pennsylvania bride. Mrs. Grignon and her family are standing in front of th... |
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| Description: | Ruins of a Mormon cabin built of squared logs. A harbor is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Bombed street and Catholic Church in Phat Diem, North Vietnam. American journalist David Schoenbrun, who visited the city in August 1967, reported that the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the slave quarters at West Point Plantation. Copyright 1910 by Fleming & Bryant, Brunswick, GA. |
| Date: | 04 28 1925 |
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| Description: | View across a rural road of farm buildings in a state of disrepair. |
| Date: | 04 06 1926 |
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| Description: | View across road of a deteriorating barn and a few sheds. In the background is a young child standing in the yard of a farmhouse. Original caption reads, "... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of "The Ruins." A brick hotel (possibly the MLAKAR HOTEL) is behind and to the right of the old foundation. Various signs are pasted on ... |
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| Description: | Wooden buildings in ruin. Overgrown bushes and piles of dirt are in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View up hill towards a large brick building with a large hole blasted in the second-floor. A wood platform below is collapsed. |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Cemetery caretaker M.F. Chapman points to an undeveloped area west of the veterans' section at Forest Hill Cemetery that has become filled with wood debris... |
| Date: | 05 17 1935 |
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| Description: | View of abandoned homes and other structures. |
| Date: | 05 17 1935 |
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| Description: | View of an abandoned home and barn behind a post fence. |
| Date: | 08 14 1935 |
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| Description: | View of an abandoned barn in a field with long grass. The roof is caved in. |
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