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Flood and Snow by the Railroad Tracks

March, 1936

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Flood and Snow by the Railroad Tracks
  • Title
  • Flood and Snow by the Railroad Tracks
  • Date
  • March, 1936
  • Identifier
  • 20100130-ocl-0280
  • Source Identifier
  • 2009.09
  • Description
  • The foreground of this photograph reveals the amount of snow on the ground during the St. Patrick's Day Flood of 1936. The snow almost obscures the railroad tracks. Little trenches in the snow indicate where people have slogged through the snow at this higher ground to survey the damage done to Oakmont. On the right side of the image is a fence partially submerged in the swollen waters. Behind that is a house, lucky enough to be on ground high enough to escape inundation. Over 130 buildings were damaged in Oakmont alone.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Oakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
    Floods--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Flood Damage--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Snow--Pennsylvania--Oakmont, Railroad Tracks--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
  • Source
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library Archives
  • Contributor
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library
  • Collection
  • Oakmont Historical Image Collection
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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