Ruins of Cambria Iron Mills from stone bridge P.R.R., Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Ruins of Cambria Iron Mills from stone bridge P.R.R., Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Ruins of Cambria Iron Mills from stone bridge P.R.R., Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
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Taken from the stone arch bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad, this view looks across the wreckage of the Cambria Iron Company works at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the aftermath of the flood of May 31, 1889. The disaster followed the failure of the South Fork dam upstream, which sent a wall of water down the Conemaugh Valley and killed more than 2,000 people. The bridge became a landmark of the catastrophe because flood debris jammed against its arches and later burned. The print was made by the Pittsburgh photographer Histed and registered for copyright the same year.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 17831 U.S. Copyright Office Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| Subjects | Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Iron industry--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 7,480 × 6,223 px · prints to 25 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif17534_RuinsofCambriaIronMillsfromsto |
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