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River Channelization Project

1924-1950

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River Channelization Project
  • Title
  • River Channelization Project
  • Creator
  • Heffley, Russell H.
  • Date
  • 1924-1950
  • Identifier
  • 200905.179.HF
  • Description
  • View of the river channelization project undertaken for flood protection. Following the 1936 flood, 15,000 people wrote letters to President Franklin D. Roosevelt imploring him to build a flood prevention infrastructure. Under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration, about 7,000 workers helped to rehabilitate the town following the flood, and the Army Corps of Engineers was allocated $8.7 million to channelize the rivers.
  • Extent
  • 8 x 10 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Flood control
    Rivers
    Church buildings
    Dwellings
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Stonycreek River (Pa.)
    Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Russell H. Heffley Photograph Collection, 1924- ca. 1950s
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Russell H. Heffley Photographs
  • Rights Information
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