Cleaning up after the Flood

View of the intersection at Penn Avenue and Stanwix Street, showing the corner of Horne's Department Store and its ornate lighting. Also visible are men on clean up detail from the 1936 flood and some residual waters. The Joseph Horne Company (known as Horne's) was founded in 1849 and closed in 1994. Architect Charles Tattersall Ingham was one of its designers.

March 22nd, 1936

Location

Downtown

Address

216 Penn Avenue

Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection

More Details

Source

Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-2002, AIS.1971.05, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh Original URL

Subjects

Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.); Floods--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.; Disasters--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.; Joseph Horne Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Identifier

715.3627644.CP

Rights

Public Domain - Anybody may use this photo for any purpose

Nearby Photos

Curry College

Joseph Horne Co.

Center Marker

Start by dragging the marker to where the photo was taken from

Oops, there no search results. Try searching again or pressing Center Marker

Oops, there is no Street View image for this spot. That's OK though, the map is more important