Johnstown Flood

The Johnstown Flood of 1889 basically destroyed Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The flood was due to the failure of a dam upstream from the town. It was probably the worst natural disaster in the United States up to that time; 2,208 people lost their lives.

A view of the great stone bridge, where thousands of men, women and children were buried, together with horses, cows, railroad trains, houses, stables, and everything the flood could carry

 

An ocean of mud

 

Beginning life anew, site of old home

 

Carrying body out of the wreck

 

General view of the wrecked city

 

In the path of ruin

 

Remains of crockery store

 

Ruins from Bedford Street

 

Scene of the fire at the Stone Bridge

 

Source: New York Public Library Digital Collections

Charles Lee

 Mary feeding Sandy Lee, Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1935

  

Mary Lee at a picnic in Luscar, Alberta, ca. 1935

 

Sack race during Coal Branch Sports Day, Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1925

 

Sunday baseball game outside Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1925

 

Two Mountain Park baseball players and a woman 

with a fur coat, Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1920

Source: Alberta Provincial Archives

Andrew J. Russell

In the late 1860s, photographer Andrew J. Russell traveled west to document the construction of the Union Pacific Railway in Wyoming and Utah, including the famous “golden spike” moment on May 10, 1869, when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads were joined in Promontory, Utah, creating the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. Russell captured images of the railway construction as well as the wide-open landscape of the American West and its inhabitants.

A gathering of Shoshone Indians

 

East and West shaking hands at laying last rail. The ceremony took place on May 10, 1869, 

marking the placement of the “golden spike” at Promontory Summit, Utah.

 

Members of the Rocky Mountain Glee Club, 1864-1869

 

Mormon Family, Great Salt Lake Valley. The man is surrounded by 

his family of wives and children, enjoying the noonday rest.

 

Officers of the Union Pacific Railroad at the laying of 

the last rail at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869

 

Source: The Atlantic

Henry Armytage Sanders

A long line of New Zealand troops digging 

trenches near Couin, France, 6 April 1918

 

A priest speaking to soldiers, who are sitting on the ground, at a New Zealand 

Brigade church service in Sapignies, France, 8 September 1918

 

New Zealand regimental aid post in a captured trench at Puisieux, France

 

New Zealand soldiers preparing a 6 inch trench mortar 

near Le Quesnoy, France, 29 October 1918

 

Soldiers eating sausage rolls, Selle, France, 1917

Indiana University

Dancing at the Band Picnic, October 1940

 

Maple Hall residents, April 1947

 

Music classroom, June 1948

 

Practice teaching, January 1949

 

Residents at West Hall listening to Stan Kenton records, January 1949

 

Source: Indiana University Photo Collections

Ole Tobias Olsen

Christiania. Egeberg. Hansteen and Milda, 1860-1900

 

Four people in a carriage, 1860-1900

 

Group of Junkerdalen, 1860-1900

 

Handelsmand Meyer with family, 1860-1900

 

Kvitenget. Peder Mikkelsen and family, 1860-1900

 

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Herbert F. Cooper

Coronation scene, Strabane, ca. 1911

  

Horse-drawn Bus (in the Bowling Green), ca. 1910

  

Main street, Strabane, ca. 1920

 

Newtown-Kennedy Street, Strabane, ca. 1910

 

The Mourne, Strabane, ca. 1910

 

Source: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Harris & Ewing

Blanche Noyes, who in 1930 took John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for his first and only air ride, has been appointed an air marking pilot for the Bureau of Air Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce

  

Performance group, 1932-33

 

Police rout Communists with tear gas at demonstration 

during congress opening, December 1930

 

Spanish dancers. Betty Ross (kneeling) and Zellah Bladen, 1929

 

Winners in National Spelling Bee received by President Coolidge, May 23, 1927

William Letts Oliver

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Olvina Winery, Livermore, California

  

Party in rowboat

 

Shipwreck Atlantic (whaleboat) on beach near Cliff House, San Francisco

  

Sierra Buttes Mine brass band

 

Woman standing next to World's Fair Premium Searchlight, Mt. Lowe?

Courting Couples

A section of the crowd in Martin Place, Sydney during 

the Victory Pacific celebrations, 15 August 1945

 

Burt V. Brooks: Three couples in a field of boulders, Greenwich, Mass., ca. 1910

 

George Brassaï: The Kiss, 1935-37

 

Ray Gurney and Dora Miller skating on Squire Pond, 1903

 

Sam Hood: Royal Price Alfred Hospital Christmas kiss, Sydney, December 1944

 

The happy couple, posing in front of a house on the corner of Old Common and Bolton Station Road, prepares to take their new Hupmobile for a spin, Lancaster, Massachusetts