View showing relief camps; Wood, Morrell & Co.'s store; and office from Prospect Hill, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889 – Vintage 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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Step back in time with View showing relief camps; Wood, Morrell & Co.'s store; and office from Prospect Hill, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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View showing relief camps; Wood, Morrell & Co.'s store; and office from Prospect Hill, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
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This view was taken from Prospect Hill above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and looks down on the temporary relief camps and the Wood, Morrell & Co. store and office in the days after the flood of May 31, 1889. The flood followed the failure of the South Fork dam upstream, which released a wall of water down the Conemaugh Valley and killed more than 2,000 people. The photograph was made by Histed of Pittsburgh, who registered it for copyright, and it shows how quickly the city's survivors were housed and supplied amid the wreckage.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 17847U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| Subjects | Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. Disaster relief--Pennsylvania--Johnstown--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 7,404 × 6,198 px · prints to 25 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif17551_ViewshowingreliefcampsWoodMorr |
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