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., 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.
Creator
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date
ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - disasters [P.9600.8]
Shows several Pennsylvania Railroad engines overturned near railroad tracks in a valley full of debris after the devastation of the flood on May 31, 1889. Buildings on higher ground are visible in the distant background., Title on negative., Publisher's and distributor's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date
sold only by Griffith & Griffith
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Disasters [P.9462.1]
View depicts men standing on the Pennsylvania Railroad's "stone bridge" spanning the Conemaugh River in Johnstown and looking down at a group of men searching through debris after the devastation of the flood on May 31, 1889. Bridge, also known as the Conemaugh Viaduct, was built by Alexander G. Sparks and Shipley W. Evans after designs by P.R.R. engineer William H. Brown the year before the flood in 1888., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date
[ca. 1889]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Disasters [P.2008.4]
