View of the broken dam looking from bed of lake, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 – Vintage Photo Print
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A window into the past: View of the broken dam looking from bed of lake, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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View of the broken dam looking from bed of lake, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
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The view looks out over the broken South Fork dam from the bed of Lake Conemaugh, where the wall that once held back the lake now stands breached. When the dam failed on May 31, 1889, the released water tore down the Conemaugh Valley and struck Johnstown with devastating force, killing more than 2,000 people. The dam had been built decades earlier to supply the Pennsylvania Canal and was later owned by a private fishing and hunting club of wealthy industrialists, whose neglect of repairs was widely blamed for the disaster. Ernest Walter Histed's photograph records the scene in the flood's immediate aftermath.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Subjects | Histed, Ernest Walter, 1862-1947, photographer. |
| Original scan | 7,387 × 6,173 px · prints to 25 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4 |
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