The Johnstown Calamity [Johnstown, Pa. Flood, 1889]: Carrying body out of the wreck – Historic Reproduction
![The Johnstown Calamity [Johnstown, Pa. Flood, 1889]: Carrying body out of the wreck, c1889. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/71/71bd798bdc61-L.webp)
(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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The Johnstown Calamity [Johnstown, Pa. Flood, 1889]: Carrying body out of the wreck 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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A grim scene of rescuers carrying a body out of the wreckage marks this stereograph as a record of the aftermath rather than the flood itself. On May 31, 1889, the failure of the South Fork Dam sent a wall of water down the Little Conemaugh and Conemaugh valleys into Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2,000 people and sweeping away whole neighborhoods. Photographers like George Barker, whose name appears as the copyright holder, sold stereo cards like this one so that viewers could see the devastation in three dimensions. The card's caption tracings are unverified, so its exact location within the wreck is uncertain.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by George Barker. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Churches--Pa.; Floods--1889; Death--Misc.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,220 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136154 |
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