[Ruins at Johnstown, Pa., after the flood, May 31, 1889] – Vintage Print
![[Ruins at Johnstown, Pa., after the flood, May 31, 1889], [1889] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c2/c22b3d307d3b-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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Step back in time with [Ruins at Johnstown, Pa., after the flood, May 31, 1889], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Ruins at Johnstown, Pa., after the flood, May 31, 1889]
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The ruins shown here are of Catholic churches in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, one of the town's most devastated areas after the flood of May 31, 1889. That day the South Fork Dam, upstream on the Little Conemaugh River, gave way after days of heavy rain, releasing a wall of water that swept through the valley and killed more than 2,000 people. The photograph was issued by Langill & Darling, a New York City firm that sold views of the disaster to a national audience eager to see the scale of the destruction.
| Created / published | [1889] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright by Langill & Darling, N.Y.C. No. 21. |
| Subjects | Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Catholic churches--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,105 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165773 |
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