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Looking at the Flooding from the Railroad Tracks

March, 1936

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Looking at the Flooding from the Railroad Tracks
  • Title
  • Looking at the Flooding from the Railroad Tracks
  • Date
  • March, 1936
  • Identifier
  • 20100130-ocl-0286
  • Source Identifier
  • 2009.09
  • Description
  • The railroad tracks through Oakmont, high enough to avoid a dousing during the St. Patrick's Day Flood in 1936, served as a popular vantage point. The photographer clearly took this picture from that spot, since the tracks are partially visible. This photo is taken across the expanded river towards a billboard and a bridge. A couple of people are just visible on the left side of the bridge. Over 130 buildings were damaged in Oakmont alone by this flood.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Oakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
    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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