Select 1955 Flood Photos - Devastation on the Delaware


SELECT SHOTS – 1955 FLOOD	High resolution, print-ready photos similar to those used inside the book. These may be freely downloaded for use in media features about the book, provided proper credit is given to the copyright holders as listed in the captions. Under no circumstances may these images be reproduced for any commercial purpose.
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I WAS THERE!	Aerial view of the remnants of Camp Davis, showing where the Lecropane sisters and a friend walked over to Pinebrook Bible Retreat just before the flood. Courtesy Scranton Times-Tribune	This caption accompanied the original shot in the Scranton Times: "The President is shocked. Pointing his finger out plane window and with a surprised expression on his face, President Eisenhower views northeast's flood wreckage from the air today." Courtesy Scranton Times-Tribune	Workers for the Erie Railroad clean up the massive debris trail left by the Roaring Brook as it receded from where it crashed into the shop buildings in the maintenance yard. Courtesy Scranton Times-Tribune	This caption accompanied the original shot in the Scranton Times: "Members of the Mennonite & Brethren church from Bucks & Montgomery counies take a break for lunch in this flood stricken area where they are volunteering their help in cleaning up flood damage to homes & property." Courtesy Scranton Times-Tribune
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	Recovery volunteers, under the guidance of the Monroe County coroner, use makeshift gurneys to move bodies of flood victims to the truck that was serving as a hearse. Courtesy Scranton Times-Tribune	Lydia Gudemann of New Hope, Pennsylvania talks with neighbors about the ravages of the flood as they stand amid ruined furniture on their block of North River Road, . Collection Dorothy Grider	Young Richard Scheet holds his baby sister, Pat, above the floodwaters that inundate Lambertville, New Jersey's North Union Street. Collection Heather Buchanan	A few days after the flood, the Koehler property on Canal Street in Riegelsville is the subject of much activity as trucks haul away piles of debris that was left by floodwaters. Collection Chris Koehler Wristen

SELECT SHOTS –
1955 FLOOD

High resolution, print-ready photos similar to those used inside the book.
These may be freely downloaded for use in media features about the book,
provided proper credit is given to the copyright holders as listed in the captions.
Under no circumstances may these images be reproduced for any commercial purpose.

HOME

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containing the high-resolution version.

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Mennonite cleanup volunteers in Monroe County, PA

Aerial view of the remnants of Camp Davis, showing where the Lecropane sisters and a friend walked over to Pinebrook Bible Retreat just before the flood.

Courtesy
Scranton Times-Tribune

This caption accompanied the original shot in the Scranton Times:
"The President is shocked.
Pointing his finger out plane
window and with a surprised
expression on his face, President Eisenhower views northeast's flood wreckage from the air today."

Courtesy
Scranton Times-Tribune

Workers for the Erie Railroad clean up
the massive debris trail left by
the Roaring Brook as it receded from
where it crashed into the shop
buildings in the maintenance yard.

Courtesy Scranton Times-Tribune

This caption accompanied the original shot in the Scranton Times:
"Members of the Mennonite & Brethren church from Bucks & Montgomery counies take a break for lunch in this flood stricken area where they are volunteering their help in cleaning up flood damage to homes & property."

Courtesy Scranton Times-Tribune

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North Union Street & Arnett Avenue - Lambertville, NJ

Recovery volunteers, under the guidance of the Monroe County coroner, use makeshift gurneys to move bodies of flood victims to the truck that was serving as a hearse.

Courtesy Scranton Times-Tribune

Lydia Gudemann of New Hope, Pennsylvania talks with neighbors
about the ravages of the flood as they stand amid ruined furniture on their block of North River Road, .

Collection Dorothy Grider

Young Richard Scheet holds his baby sister, Pat, above the floodwaters that inundate Lambertville, New Jersey's North Union Street.

Collection Heather Buchanan

A few days after the flood, the Koehler property on Canal Street in Riegelsville is the subject of much activity as trucks haul away piles of debris that was left by floodwaters.

Collection Chris Koehler Wristen