Details
Creator Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 photographer.
Contributor Griffith & Griffith, distributor.
Title The Johnstown disaster. Main and Bedford sts., site of Hurlbut house. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Wm. H. Rau, publisher
Date ca. 1900
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm (3.75 x 7.25 in).
Description Shows site of the Hurlbut House, one of Johnstown, Pennsylvania's leading hotels, after the devastation of the flood on May 31, 1889. View shows debris scattered around an empty lot. A group of people stand in the background.
Notes View is numbered 6300 in a series.
Stamped on mount: Sold only by Giffith & Griffith, Philadelphia.
Image reproduced in reverse and without attribution in Paula and Carl Degen's The Johnstown Flood of 1889 (New York: Eastern Acorn Press, 1984) page 45.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Disasters -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown.
Floods -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown -- 1889.
Genre Stereographs -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Rau - disasters [P.9600.8]
Accession number P.9600.8