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The Flood at Johnstown - The scene at the bridge – Antique Wall Art

The Flood at Johnstown - The scene at the bridge, 1899 — antique engraving
The Flood at Johnstown - The scene at the bridge, 1899. Antique engraving from the Johnstown Flood collection.

(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 The Flood at Johnstown - The scene at the bridge, an antique engraving rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The debris piled against the stone railroad bridge over the Conemaugh River marks the spot where wreckage from Johnstown gathered after the South Fork Dam failed on May 31, 1889. Wood engravings like this one carried news of the disaster to readers across the country, and this scene appeared in Harper's Weekly that year across two facing pages. The jam of houses, lumber and rail cars at the bridge trapped many people, and fire broke out in the wreckage that night, which made this spot one of the most dramatic in accounts of the flood.

Created / published1899
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1889, p. 476-7. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Floods--1889-Pa.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,085 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130855

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