Accession#:
1993-304
Title:
Rock wall (rip-rap) at Seadrift
Date:
1983
Catalog Date:
11/16/2002
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Classification:
Disasters
Storms
Storms
Collection:
SBHS
Copyright:
SBHS
Description:
In this black and white photograph we see a strip of large rocks piled between sand bags protecting dunes on the right and the ocean on the left on the Seadrift subdivision portion of the beach.
Event:
Storm/flood
Film Size:
35 mm
Frame #:
27A
Medium:
Photographic Paper
Negative #:
3
Notes:
In the El Nino winter of 1983 the people of Seadrift had rocks (rip-rap) brought in and placed in front of the dunes in an attempt to save them from erosion in the series of high water storms that hammered the coast from December 1982 to March 1983.
Object ID:
1993-304
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Orig/copy:
Original
Photographer:
Stebbins, Barrie
Place:
Stinson Beach
Print Size:
4 X 5 1/2
Slide #:
27
Source:
Stebbins, Barrie
Subjects:
Disasters (Storms)
Neighborhoods-Seadrift (Sandspit)
Neighborhoods-Seadrift (Sandspit)
Year Range from:
1983
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