Views of Johnstown, Pa., disaster. Catholic church ruin / Sackett & Carlson, Sycamore, Ill. – Antique 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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Views of Johnstown, Pa., disaster. Catholic church ruin / Sackett & Carlson, Sycamore, Ill.
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A ruined Catholic church stands in this view, one of the damaged buildings that the photographers Sackett & Carlson, of Sycamore, Illinois, recorded after the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889. The flood followed the failure of a dam on the South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River, which sent a wall of water through the valley and killed more than 2,000 people. The "No. 10" in the caption suggests the picture was part of a numbered set of disaster views sold to a public eager to see the destruction.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | No. 10. |
| Subjects | Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Catholic churches--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,171 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167229 |
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