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St. Patrick's Day Flood relief

1936

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St. Patrick's Day Flood relief
  • Title
  • St. Patrick's Day Flood relief
  • Date
  • 1936
  • Identifier
  • 20181026-hpichswp-0108
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP_371_B005_F008_I01
  • Description
  • Workers unpack bottles of spring water, ginger ale and soda in the men's hat department. The store's first floor selling departments temporarily offered non-perishables and staple goods in the wake of the St. Patrick's Day Flood of 1936.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Kaufmann's Department Store.
    Department stores--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Floods-​-​Pennsylvania-​-​Pittsburgh-​-​1936.
    Bottled water industry.
    Disaster relief--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Kaufmann's Department Store Photographs, c1880-2001, MSP 371, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Kaufmann's Department Store Photographs
  • 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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