Club House and Morrell Institute, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 – Antique Wall Art
(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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Club House and Morrell Institute, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Club House and Morrell Institute, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
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The Club House and the Morrell Institute, both in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, appear in this view taken after the flood of May 31, 1889. That day the South Fork Dam upstream gave way, and a wall of water rushed down the Conemaugh Valley, killing roughly 2,200 people and destroying much of the town. Pittsburgh photographer Histed made the picture and registered it for copyright, which was a common way photographers of the period protected their work. The print documents the scale of destruction in a community that had only recently been building its civic institutions.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 17835U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| Subjects | Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Organizations' facilities--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Disasters--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,249 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151940 |
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