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[Pa. - Johnstown - wreckage after flood, 5/31/'89: looking south from Main St." ruins of M.J. Kennedy Coal Co.]" – Antique Wall Art

[Pa. - Johnstown - wreckage after flood, 5/31/'89: looking south from Main St." ruins of M.J. Kennedy Coal Co.]" — historic photograph
[Pa. - Johnstown - wreckage after flood, 5/31/'89: looking south from Main St." ruins of M.J. Kennedy Coal Co.]". Historic photograph from the Johnstown Flood collection.

(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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[Pa. - Johnstown - wreckage after flood, 5/31/'89: looking south from Main St." ruins of M.J. Kennedy Coal Co.]"

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The ruins of the M.J. Kennedy Coal Co. anchor this view looking south from Main Street, recorded in Johnstown about two and a half weeks after the flood of May 31, 1889. That day the South Fork Dam above the city failed, releasing a torrent down the Conemaugh valley that killed more than 2,000 people and wrecked much of the mill town. The June 17 date in the record suggests the scene was photographed while debris and damaged buildings still lay where the floodwaters had left them, making it a useful record of the destruction.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1889 June 17.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124412

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