Primary Sources
Images:
- The City of Johnstown as seen from the top of the Inclined Plane at 8am on March 18, 1936.
- Johnstown in the Conemaugh Valley
- PRR bridge choked with flood debris
- Conemaugh Lake after the South Fork Dam broke
- Illustration of the flood
- Survivors rummage through the ruins
- One of the most famous flood pictures: a tree piercing a house
- Businesses open after the Flood
- Debris from the Johnstown Flood
- Conemaugh River flowing through Johnstown.
- View of downtown Johnstown Stoneycreek River on left of photo. Johnstown sits on a floodplain surrounded by steep ridges.
- Concrete retaining walls constructed by the Army Engineering Corp as part of the Johnstown Local Flood Protection Project, Johnstown, PA, circa 1945.
- The Stone Bridge was the only bridge to survive the flood.
- 30 acres of flood debris backed up behind the bridge and then caught fire. Some who survived the flood did not survive the fire.
- Stoneycreek River flowing through downtown Johnstown, 1880s.
- Map of Johnstown, Conemaugh, and Cambria City, 1889.
- Men recover the body of a flood victim.
- Wreckage from the 1889 Flood. The caption in the corner of the photo is incorrect. The accepted death toll for the Johnstown Flood of 1889 is 2,209.
- Main Street, Johnstown, PA, in the aftermath of the 1889 Flood.
- Debris left behind by the Johnston flood, with the Cambria Iron Works visible in the background, 1889.
- Infirmaries run by the Red Cross, Johnstown, PA, 1889.
- After the flood, survivors searched through the debris, looking for the bodies of the victims. Once the bodies were located, they had to be moved to the make-shift morgues, where they were identified and prepared for burial
- The task of cleaning up after the flood was Herculean in nature. Workers pose in front of only a small section of the wreckage that had to be cleared.
- A stone arch bridge holds up huge piles of debris from the Johnstown flood.
