Johnstown Flood, 1889: Looking W. from Main St. #20 – Antique 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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Johnstown Flood, 1889: Looking W. from Main St. #20 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Johnstown Flood, 1889: Looking W. from Main St. #20
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The caption card for this view looking west from Main Street is tagged with disaster relief and Freemasons, which points to the recovery work that followed the disaster. The dam failure on the South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River on May 31, 1889, sent a wall of water down the valley into Johnstown, killing more than 2,000 people and destroying much of the town. Photographs like this one, made in the months after the flood, document the debris and damage that residents and relief workers faced. The record itself is unverified and comes from an old caption card, so details such as the exact date and vantage point should be checked against other sources.
| 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 × 1,228 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136149 |
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