Sequential images depicting disaster and relief emerged as an independent genre in China during the late imperial period. These images have the peculiar feature of representing one-time events that do not rely on well-known sources or fictional tales, even though they contain a textual element. The aim of this chapter is to determine how and using which narrative ingredients these illustrated tales of disasters and their aftermath were constructed. First it defines the historical circumstances of their creation, their function and the main formats used for this kind of pictures. The chapter then focuses on two albums produced during the 19th century. If both series represent floods, in the first one, the bird’s eye views keep the viewer at a distance from the subject, while the second one displays a more dramatic style with powerful and vivid images of the disaster, as photo reports will do a few years later.