View at Allegheny City after the flood
date: label: date made
content: 1874
name: label: maker
content: Knowlton Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: black and white stereograph mounted on mint green cardstock; printed on verso "Views of the Three Floods, / Photographed and Published by / Knowlton Brothers, / Northampton, Mass. / Miller River Valley Flood. / Middlefield Flood. / Pittsburgh and Allegheny Flood. / Pittsburg and Allegheny Flood. / In this, as in the great Flood in Mill River Valley, the loss of life and destruction of property were very large. / At Saw Mill Run in Pittsburgh a large number of lives were lost and a great amount of peroperty destroyed. / The greatest loss, both of life and property, occurred in Allegheny, in the crowded streets and dwellings, as represented in the Views. / This set of Views at Allegheny were taken along the course of the Flood from Butchers' Run, through Madison Avenue, Concord and O'Hara Streets to Center and adjacent Streets where the Flood from Spring Garden Run united with that from Buthcher's run."; printed on recto "Knowlton Bros., Northampton, Mass. / Pittsburgh and Allegheny Flood."; image capture destruction after a flood; foreground of image is covered in debris; partially collapsed houses in midground; hill rising in background
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Allegheny City
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Northampton
topic: label: Subject
content: Floods
label: Subject
content: Disasters
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0752
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0752
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm