Johnstown flood. No. 11. View near Main Street – Historic Photograph Print
(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 rare historic photograph captures Johnstown flood. No. 11. View near Main Street in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Johnstown flood. No. 11. View near Main Street
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Numbered eleventh in a series, this view shows a scene near Main Street in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the weeks after the flood of May 31, 1889. When the South Fork dam gave way upstream, a wall of water from the Conemaugh River tore through the valley town, killing more than 2,000 people and leaving wreckage piled through its streets. The copyright credit names Langill & Darling, a New York City firm that produced and sold views of the disaster to a public eager to see the damage. The record's location details come from an old caption card and have not been verified, so the exact spot should be read as approximate.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo copyrighted by Langill & Darling, N.Y.C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Floods--; Pa.--Johnstown; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,228 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135739 |
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