Engine buried in Drift. Thirty freight locomotives from destroyed round house at Conemaugh, rolled down the Conemaugh River, totally destroyed and buried in drift.
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Engine buried in Drift. Thirty freight locomotives from destroyed round house at Conemaugh, rolled down the Conemaugh River, totally destroyed and buried in drift.
1889
negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose sheet film from Eastman paper-backed negative
Other: 15.2 x 20.3 cm
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1982.1592.0059
Inscriptions on original negative envelope (ink): Johnstown Flood / Engine buried in Drift / Thirty freight locomotives from destroyed round house at Conemaugh, rolled down the Conemaugh River, totally destroyed and buried in drift. / This is a paper negative. A 48 exposure roll given to me by George Eastman in May 1889. Paper removed in hot water leaving gelatine film to be transferred to glass, then stripped. / W.N. Jennings Photo
