East Houghton Flood

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Title: East Houghton Flood
Photographer: J. T. Reeder
Subject Headings: Transportation - Railroads - Street - Railroads, Disasters - Natural Disasters, Persons
Condition: Good
Description: East Houghton Flood [A street car operator is astonished at the amount of water in the street.]
Source of Description: Reeder Negative Database [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Harry Reeder
Date of Photo: April 1912
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 10 cm x 13.7 cm
Polarity: Negative
Image No: MS042-065-999-Z795A
Collection Name: Reeder Photograph Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• Flooding was caused by overflow of old Hubbell Dam at the head of Hubbell Avenue. The flood formed a lake on Florence Street covering the street railway tracks and the flood receded before the roadbed was seriously damaged. [Taken from Daily Mining Gazette article dated April 6, 1912]
9/22/2010 10:14:15 AM by Christine Holland, Archives