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| German officials were forced to respond to typhoons, like the one that leveled Woleai in 1907. Here Francisco Villazon, a Spanish trader, surveys the damage done by the typhoon. The Woleai people in the background are the survivors of a disaster that took over 200 lives. Three other major typhoons struck the area between 1905 and 1907. |
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(Georg Fritz Collection, MARC)