Caption on image: "Waves washing houses off sand spit during storm, Nome" Original image in Hegg Album 38, page 3 . Original photograph by Eric A. Hegg 1853; copied by Webster and Stevens 321.A *Subjects (LCTGM): Storms--Alaska--Nome; Waves--Alaska--Nome; Sailing ships--Alaska--Nome; Houses--Alaska--Nome *Subjects (LCSH): Spits (Geomorphology)--Alaska--Nome