This collection contains photographs of floods, blizzards, landslides and tornadoes that occurred in Schenectady County. The bulk of the photographs are of floods in the city of Schenectady.
In early 1913, a severe winter storm hit the Eastern, Midwest, and Southern parts of the United States. It was the most geographically widespread natural disaster the United States had suffered up to that point in its history, and was considered worse than the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire by many.
The Albert R. Stone collection of the Rochester Museum & Science Center consists of local images made for the Rochester Herald and the Democrat and Chronicle between 1904 and 1936. Albert R. Stone, staff photographer for those newspapers, took pictures of newsworthy events and the people and places associated with those events.
Aerialview of Corning, NY. Collection of the Rakow Research Library of The Corning Museum of Glass. Rights held by The Corning Museum of Glass. Contact rights@cmog.org for information on use of images for publication.
