Austin Dam Disaster - RR Bridge, Costello – Antique Wall Art
(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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Austin Dam Disaster - RR Bridge, Costello comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Austin Dam Disaster - RR Bridge, Costello
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Few pictures in the Bain collection show the aftermath of the Austin Dam failure as directly as this view of a railroad bridge at Costello in Potter County, Pennsylvania. The record gives no date, but the title ties it to the March 1900 flood, when a dam holding back a millpond above the borough of Austin gave way after heavy rain and sent a wall of water down the valley. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, often issued scenes of such disasters, but its caption information was sometimes unverified, so the title should be read as provisional.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,791 × 4,209 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11010 |
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