1926 Great Miami, Florida hurricane...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 19, 1926
* Miami, Florida hurricane disaster (early reporting)
The top of the front page has a two column headline: "75 REPORTED DEAD IN MIAMI; HURRICANE SWEEPS COAST; 2,000 BUILDINGS IN RUINS" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with all 30 pages, light toning at the margins, a little irregular along the spine, generally nice.
Background: The 1926 Great Miami Hurricane was a monumental historical threshold for South Florida, striking on September 18, 1926, as a brutal Category 4 storm with 150 mph sustained winds and a devastating 10- to 15-foot storm surge that abruptly ended the 1920s Florida land boom and plunged the region into an early Great Depression. Its significance lies not only in the catastrophic immediate loss—causing between 372 and 500+ deaths after the passing eye of the storm lured unsuspecting residents outside before the reverse eyewall hit, alongside massive Lake Okeechobee flooding in Moore Haven—but also in its immense financial and structural legacy. Generating an estimated $105 million in 1926 damage, modern normalization models evaluate it as the costliest hurricane in U.S. history at over $200 billion in potential present-day loss, fundamentally transforming regional infrastructure by exposing substandard construction, introducing the nation's strictest building codes, and spurring the engineering of the Herbert Hoover Dike.
* Miami, Florida hurricane disaster (early reporting)
The top of the front page has a two column headline: "75 REPORTED DEAD IN MIAMI; HURRICANE SWEEPS COAST; 2,000 BUILDINGS IN RUINS" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with all 30 pages, light toning at the margins, a little irregular along the spine, generally nice.
Background: The 1926 Great Miami Hurricane was a monumental historical threshold for South Florida, striking on September 18, 1926, as a brutal Category 4 storm with 150 mph sustained winds and a devastating 10- to 15-foot storm surge that abruptly ended the 1920s Florida land boom and plunged the region into an early Great Depression. Its significance lies not only in the catastrophic immediate loss—causing between 372 and 500+ deaths after the passing eye of the storm lured unsuspecting residents outside before the reverse eyewall hit, alongside massive Lake Okeechobee flooding in Moore Haven—but also in its immense financial and structural legacy. Generating an estimated $105 million in 1926 damage, modern normalization models evaluate it as the costliest hurricane in U.S. history at over $200 billion in potential present-day loss, fundamentally transforming regional infrastructure by exposing substandard construction, introducing the nation's strictest building codes, and spurring the engineering of the Herbert Hoover Dike.
Category: The 20th Century
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