Pennsylvania Highlands Community College - The Johnstown Flood of 1889

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About This Collection

On May 31, 1889, the breaking of the South Fork Dam caused the single greatest natural disaster in the history of the United States: the Great Johnstown Flood. It is the personal accounts and rare photographs of the survivors which are the focus of this project. Published in 1889, many of the selected texts are no longer in print or available for public access.
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Official history of the Johnstown flood
Official history of the Johnstown flood
Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown (Cambria County)
This book was written while relief efforts were still underway.
P.R.R. Co's Loco Rescued. 7/27/89
P.R.R. Co's Loco Rescued. 7/27/89
Johnstown (Pa.)--Flood, 1889
Title written on reverse of photograph
The story of Johnstown: its early settlement, rise and progress, industrial growth, and appalling flood on May 31st, 1889
The story of Johnstown: its early settlement, rise and progress, industrial growth, and appalling flood on May 31st, 1889
Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown (Cambria County), Johnstown (Pa.)--History
A detailed account of the flood written by a Harrisburg journalist who was in Johnstown at the time.
Through mighty waters saved: A romance of the Johnstown destruction
Through mighty waters saved: A romance of the Johnstown destruction
Johnstown (Pa)--Fiction. Floods--Fiction. Historical fiction.
A fictional account of the Johnstown Flood.