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Light Offices Submerged to Roofline in Flood waters

March 18, 1936

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Light Offices Submerged to Roofline in Flood waters
  • Title
  • Light Offices Submerged to Roofline in Flood waters
  • Date
  • March 18, 1936
  • Identifier
  • 20100205-ocl-0314
  • Source Identifier
  • 2009.09
  • Description
  • The light office located on then Oakmont Avenue, now Allegheny Avenue, is overtaken by flood water in the 1936 St. Patrick's Day flood almost up to its roofline. Over 130 buildings were damaged 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
  • Source
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library Archives
  • Contributor
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library
  • Collection
  • Oakmont Historical Image Collection
  • Rights Information
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