Cambria Company's store looking towards kernville, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 – Vintage 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 Cambria Company's store looking towards kernville, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cambria Company's store looking towards kernville, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
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Taken in the flood's aftermath, this view looks from the Cambria Company's store toward Kernville, a neighborhood of Johnstown whose residents depended heavily on the nearby Cambria Iron Company. The flood on May 31, 1889, 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 photograph was made by Histed of Pittsburgh, who copyrighted it, and it offers a rare record of how the mill town looked in the days after the disaster.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 17839U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| Subjects | Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Iron industry--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Disasters--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 7,454 × 6,232 px · prints to 25 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif17543_CambriaCompanysstorelookingtow |
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