[Johnstown Flood (Johnstown, Pa. 1889). Main street looking east] – Historic Photograph Print
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(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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This historic photograph of [Johnstown Flood (Johnstown, Pa. 1889). Main street looking east] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Johnstown Flood (Johnstown, Pa. 1889). Main street looking east]
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The view looks east down Main Street in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a few days after the dam failure of May 31, 1889, when a torrent from the South Fork Dam swept through the Little Conemaugh and Stony Creek valleys and destroyed much of the mill town. The photograph shows the wreckage piled along the thoroughfare, the kind of debris field that residents and rescue crews faced as they searched for survivors and the dead. Because the picture was taken so soon after the disaster, it records the scale of destruction before cleanup began, and it remains one of the most direct visual records of the flood's aftermath.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1889 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125948 |
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