Geological Survey - Library destroyed by Hurricane Agnes flood

Pennsylvania Geological Survey - Hurricane Agnes Flood Photographs

About

Subject

Hurricane Agnes, 1972
Geological Survey of Pennsylvania
Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, History

Description

Library of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey destroyed by Hurricane Agnes flood. Nearly 40,000 volumes were lost.

Creator

Sevon, William D.

Date

1972-06~

Location Covered

Dauphin

Type

Image

Original Format

Photographs

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Source

B-8

Note

At the time of the flood, the office was located on North Cameron Street in Harrisburg, in the Paxton Creek lowland.

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Contact

For further information contact RA-pagslibrary@pa.gov or call 717-702-2020.

Contributing Institution

Pennsylvania Geological Survey

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.