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First Level of Home Flooded

March, 1936

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First Level of Home Flooded
  • Title
  • First Level of Home Flooded
  • Date
  • March, 1936
  • Identifier
  • 20100130-ocl-0283
  • Source Identifier
  • 2009.09
  • Description
  • In the center of this photograph, taken during the 1936 St. Patrick's Day Flood, stands a house. Only the top floor is visible, the water having risen to cover all of the bottom half of the home. Behind this submerged home, Edgewater Steel can be seen. Just to the left of the home, behind the trees, three people in a canoe are just barely visible. Over 130 buildings were damaged in Oakmont alone.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Oakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
    Edgewater Steel Company (Oakmont, Pa.)
    Floods--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Flood Damage--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Industry--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Steel Industry and Trade--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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