The Johnstown flood - Main Street, looking east – Vintage 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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The Johnstown flood - Main Street, looking east comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Johnstown flood - Main Street, looking east
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Few disasters of the 1800s marked a single American town as deeply as the flood that struck Johnstown on May 31, 1889. After the South Fork Dam above the city gave way, a wall of water from Lake Conemaugh roared down the valley and killed more than 2,000 people. This view looks east along Main Street, where the flood's damage is plainly visible. The print is credited to the studio of Langill & Darling and dated around 1889, though the caption information has not been fully verified.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Copyright by Langill & Darling. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Floods--1889--Pa.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135000 |
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