Johnstown, Pennsylvania, c. 1890

Johnstown, Pennsylvania, c. 1890 presents a rare documentary view of the town nestled in a wooded Allegheny valley, with rows of houses, a church spire, and a rail yard tracing the valley floor below misty hillsides. Rendered in black and white, the photograph captures the industrial and residential character of a late nineteenth-century Pennsylvania town shaped by its rail and steel industries.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Vintage Documentary Photography Canvas Print.