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Looking Down the Railroad Tracks

March, 1936

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Looking Down the Railroad Tracks
  • Title
  • Looking Down the Railroad Tracks
  • Date
  • March, 1936
  • Identifier
  • 20100130-ocl-0289
  • Source Identifier
  • 2009.09
  • Description
  • Another photograph of the 1936 St. Patrick's Day Flood taken from the railroad tracks, which were high enough to stay above water. The snowy tracks were a popular place for Oakmonters to survey the damage done to their town. This photo focuses on the tracks themselves, and shows a number of people standing on the tracks in scattered groups. The photo also provides a clear shot down the flooded Allegheny River Boulevard, then known as Oakmont Avenue. Over 130 buildings were damaged by the flood in Oakmont alone.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Oakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
    Oakmont Avenue (Oakmont, Pa.)
    Allegheny River Boulevard (Oakmont, Pa.)
    Floods--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Flood Damage--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Flood Debris--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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