View of wrecked houses, looking towards Kernville, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 – Historic Photo 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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Step back in time with View of wrecked houses, looking towards Kernville, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889, a historic image 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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View of wrecked houses, looking towards Kernville, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
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Wrecked houses stand in the foreground of this view looking toward Kernville, a neighborhood on the flooded Conemaugh Valley floor. The flood followed the failure of the South Fork Dam upstream on May 31, 1889, when a torrent of water and debris swept down through Johnstown and killed more than 2,000 people. Photographs like this one, made in the weeks after the disaster, document how completely the water flattened ordinary homes and how the wreckage piled up against whatever stood in its path.
| Created / published | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Histed, Ernest Walter, 1862-1947, photographer. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 7,421 × 6,164 px · prints to 25 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2 |
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