Johnstown Flood, 1889: Sisters of Charity building #12 – Antique Photo 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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Johnstown Flood, 1889: Sisters of Charity building #12 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Johnstown Flood, 1889: Sisters of Charity building #12
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A numbered building belonging to the Sisters of Charity, marked "#12," is the focus here, set in Johnstown after the flood of May 31, 1889. A failed earthen dam upstream on the South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River sent a wall of water through the valley, killing roughly 2,200 people. The caption card links the scene to disaster relief and to the Freemasons, who were among the groups that organized aid in the weeks afterward. Photographs like this one record how the city's religious and fraternal institutions took part in the recovery.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo copyrighted by Langill & Darling. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Disaster relief; Freemasons; Flood--1889; Relief; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136153 |
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