View of the Great Ohio River Flood at Cincinnati, O. 1884
View of the Great Ohio River Flood at Cincinnati, O. 1884
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- Description (Brief)
- Color print of a flooded city (Cincinnati) street lined with indusrial and commercial buildings. The buildings are indentified with trade signs. Numerous boats, many of them bearing the names of the businesses along the street, are in the flooded street removing people and goods from the buildings to dry land in the foreground. Charts beneath the image give the high water marks for the Ohio River between 1832 and 1884 and the levels at various points during the flood of 1884.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Date made
- n.d.
- maker
- Macbrair & Sons
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
- depicted
- United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
- Measurements
- image: 20 1/4 in x 33 1/4 in; 51.435 cm x 84.455 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.3744
- catalog number
- 60.3744
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Architecture, Commercial Buildings
- Ships
- Horses
- Architecture, Industrial Buildings
- Wagons
- Floods
- Ohio River Flood (1884)
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Clothing & Accessories
- Advertising
- Transportation
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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