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Description
Staff photographers, known as “Photo reporters,” covered the unprecedented 1936 flood disaster from land, air, and even from the water.
Photo reporters paddled boats through ordinarily busy city streets with camera equipment. They documented the flood’s impact, including a battered outbuilding, tilted on its side. In the floating debris, toward the left of the titled garage, is a flight of wooden stairs torn loose from the side of the building.
About This Item
- Title: Submerged outbuilding in floodwater, Saco, 1936
- Creator: Portland Press Herald
- Creation Date: 1936
- Subject Date: 1936
- Location: Saco, York County, ME
- Media: glass negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.19590
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Canoes and canoeing
- Canoes and canoeing--Maine--Saco
- Disasters
- Disasters--Maine--Saco
- Floods--Maine--Saco
- Photojournalism
- Photojournalism--Maine
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