Collection Name
Collection Name
About
About
Photographs of flood damage
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
acfl065
IDEntry
7402
Creator
Arthur White
Date
1936-03
Collection Location
Hancock, Maryland
Coverage
Western Maryland, 1936
Body
Main Street, Hancock, near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue, March 1936
Marian Golden reported that her father, the photographer, told her that the 1936 flood was higher, more rapid, more intense that the 1985 flood. He said it was cleaner, in the sense there was only mud left behind, rather than the oily, polluted garbage that later floods have brought.
Notes
Photograph made available by Marian Golden, Arthur White's daughter.