General view of Johnstown from Prospect Hill, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 – Historic Photograph 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of General view of Johnstown from Prospect Hill, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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General view of Johnstown from Prospect Hill, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
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From Prospect Hill, the camera looks down on a Johnstown that the flood of May 31, 1889, had just torn apart. The disaster followed the failure of the South Fork dam upstream, which released a wall of water into the Conemaugh valley and destroyed homes, mills and bridges, killing more than 2,000 people. The print was made by the Pittsburgh firm Histed, which registered it for copyright, and it shows how commercial photographers recorded the scale of the ruin for a public eager to see it.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 17849U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| Subjects | Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Disasters--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 7,404 × 6,231 px · prints to 25 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif17553_GeneralviewofJohnstownfromPros |
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