Bed of lake looking from top of broken dam, Johnstown flood, May 31st, 1889 – 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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Step back in time with Bed of lake looking from top of broken dam, Johnstown flood, May 31st, 1889, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bed of lake looking from top of broken dam, Johnstown flood, May 31st, 1889
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Looking down from the crest of the broken South Fork Dam, this view shows the empty bed of Lake Conemaugh, the reservoir that emptied in minutes when the dam failed on May 31, 1889. The water that rushed down the Little Conemaugh valley killed more than 2,000 people in Johnstown and the towns along the way. The photograph is credited to Ernest Walter Histed, whose record places him among the photographers documenting the aftermath, and it shows how the flood stripped the valley to bare ground.
| Created / published | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Histed, Ernest Walter, 1862-1947, photographer. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 7,421 × 6,215 px · prints to 25 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 9 |
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