Johnstown Flood, 1889: Landmark #26 – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Johnstown Flood, 1889: Landmark #26, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Johnstown Flood, 1889: Landmark #26
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Numbered as Landmark 26, this view appears to belong to a series of photographs recording the ruin left by the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889. A dam upstream of the city gave way after days of heavy rain, releasing a wall of water that killed more than 2,000 people and swept away much of the town. The caption tracings point to disaster relief and the Freemasons, reflecting the aid that arrived from outside the region in the weeks afterward. Because the catalog data is old and unverified, the specific site shown is best identified through its landmark number.
| 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 × 1,117 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136151 |
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