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Document Type

Postcard

Description

Postcard depicting houses on Main Street and Washington Street that show significant flood damage and large piles of wreckage. Debris in the trees shows the heights floodwaters reached. Along the street are the bodies of horses that drowned in the flood. Transcript on back reads 'Pub. By The Acmegraph Co., Chicago' Main & Washington Sts., showing dead horses, Dayton, O.

Creation Date

3-26-1913

Repository

University Archives and Special Collections

Repository ID

NUN-2-60014

Keywords

St. Mary's Institute, University of Dayton, 1913 Dayton flood, Floods, Natural disasters

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