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Warren Library Association - Historic Photographs

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An archive of over 300 digital images from the library's Historic Warren Photograph Collection.

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Floods (4)
People (3)
Streets (3)
Buildings (2)
Banks (1)
Exhibition buildings (1)
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Flood of 1894 (1894)

Floods, Streets, Exhibition buildings, Buildings

View from above Fifth Avenue at Hazel Street towards the flooded (1894?) south side fairgrounds. Note the advertisements for Pickett Hardware Co., J. C. Smith boots and shoes, Morck Brothers Jewelers and Opticians, A. A. Davis & Co., etc. painted on the fairgrounds fences.

Flood of 1894 (1894)

Streets, People, Floods

High water on Water Street (looking west from the foot of East Street) in the 1890s, possibly during the 1894 flood.

Flood of 1894 (1894)

Banks, Streets, People

View looking west down Pennsylvania Avenue from Market Street. The pointed tower of the Warren Savings Bank appears in the distance, right of center. Probably the flood of 1894.

Flood of 1894 (1894)

Floods, Rivers

The old gas plant on Pennsylvania Avenue West, possibly during the flood of 1894. This site is occupied today (2004) by Penelec. View towards the river in the south.

Flood of 1894 (1894)

Floods, People, Buildings

View east on Clark Street on The Island in the flood of 1894.

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