Cambria Iron Company's office an store rooms looking from P.R.R. depot, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Cambria Iron Company's office an store rooms looking from P.R.R. depot, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cambria Iron Company's office an store rooms looking from P.R.R. depot, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
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Taken from the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, this view looks across the offices and storerooms of the Cambria Iron Company, the mill concern that employed much of Johnstown, in the aftermath of the flood of May 31, 1889. The photographer, Histed of Pittsburgh, recorded the wreckage left behind after water released by the failed South Fork dam tore through the Conemaugh Valley. The flood killed more than 2,000 people, and the image shows how thoroughly the industrial district that anchored the town was disrupted.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 17834U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| Subjects | Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Iron industry--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Disasters--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,133 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-171212 |
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