Podcast 66 - Museums, Part 2: Historical Events & Disasters

Sara Cochran and Jean Wilcox Hibben discuss museums dealing with specific historical events, including disasters - general and specific. The second half (available only with the premium subscription) includes even more specific detail on particular events - notably: floods, shipwrecks, train wrecks, and fires.

Complete podcast is located at <https://genjourneys.podbean.com/e/podcast-66-museums-part-2-historic-events-disasters/>

Resources

Historic museums:

La Brea Tar Pits: https://tarpits.org/

LDS (Mormon) Church History Museum: https://history.lds.org/section/museum?lang=eng

Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum: http://www.dupinternational.org/dyn_page.php?pageID=11

GenDisasters: http://www.gendisasters.com/

General disaster museum topic overview essay: http://archives.icom.museum/pdf/E_news2005/extra_n.2.pdf

Int’l Coalition of Historic Sites of Conscience:

https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/home/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/SitesofConscience/

US Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC: https://www.ushmm.org/

Black Holocaust Museum: https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/membership/americas-black-holocaust-museum-usa/

Jewish History Museum and Holocaust History Center:

https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/membership/jewish-history-museum-and-holocaust-history-center/

Manzanar: https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/membership/manzanar-national-historic-site/

Museum of Tolerance (CA): https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/membership/museum-of-tolerance-los-angeles/

The Arabia: http://1856.com/

Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum: https://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/

Recorded ships sunk in the Great Lakes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_Great_Lakes

The Sultana: http://www.sultanadisastermuseum.org/

Sultana Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sultanadisastermuseum/

Explosion of the Steamer Sultana, 28 April 1865

copyright 1865, Harper's Weekly

Retrieved from Library of Congress

Donora Smog Museum: https://www.sites.google.com/site/donorahistoricalsociety/

History: https://www.sites.google.com/site/donorahistoricalsociety/1948-smog

Chicago Fire Museum: http://www.firemuseumofgreaterchicago.org/

Peshtigo Fire Museum: http://peshtigofiremuseum.com/

New York Fire Museum: http://www.nycfiremuseum.org/

Memphis Fire Museum: http://www.firemuseum.com/

Boston Fire Museum: https://www.bostonfiremuseum.com/

Fire Museum of Maryland: https://www.firemuseummd.org/

Baltimore Fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Baltimore_Fire

Cincinnati Fire Museum: https://www.cincyfiremuseum.com/about-us-2/

Raleigh Fire Museum: https://www.raleighfiremuseum.org/

Fire Museum of Houseton: http://www.houstonfiremuseum.org/

Clarksville, TN, Customs House Museum & Cultural Center: http://customshousemuseum.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/CustomsHouseMuseum_Finding_Aid_2018.pdf

Fire Tragedies, Montgomery County (TN) Historical Society: http://www.mchsociety.org/Sub-Pages/Hist-Tragedies-Fire.html

San Francisco 1906 Earthquake & Fire Virtual museum: http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html

(includes genealogical information via a list of the dead)

Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum, Virtual Museum: https://postalmuseumblog.si.edu/2013/04/the-great-kipton-train-wreck.html

Ashtabula Train Disaster: https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/12/saga_of_ashtabula_train_disast.html

Ashtabula, OH Train/Bridge disaster: http://www.ashtabula200.com/id114.htm

Listing of Rail accidents, international: https://www.revolvy.com/page/Lists-of-rail-accidents

Quincy, MA Museum: https://www.discoverquincy.com/listing/quincy-history-museum-quincy-historical-society

Galveston flood: https://www.galveston.com/pier21theatre/

Galveston disaster - People leaving the city

Niagara Falls, N.Y. : M.H. Zahner, publisher, c1900

Retrieved from Library of Congress

Various/general disasters: http://genealogytrails.com/main/events/index.html

ArchiveGrid - Archive list (not all inclusive): https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/