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Gelatin silver print snapshot, March 20, 1936. Image depicts a view of the intersection of Essex and Lawrence streets in Lawrence, Mass., during the flood of 1936. The water appears deeper in the foreground, splashing over car tires, but the street appears dry in the background. This intersection is three blocks north of the Merrimack River. See also item 23 in this folder. 12.5 x 10 cm.

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Gelatin silver print snapshot, March 20, 1936. Image depicts the Warner Bros. Theatre, a movie theater located at 1 Lawrence Street in Lawrence, Mass., during the flood of 1936. Two men stand in front of the theater but the floodwaters have virtually reached the theater doors. 12 x 10 cm.

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Gelatin silver print snapshot, March 20, 1936. Image depicts the Boston & Maine Railroad station underpass in Lawrence, Mass., during the flood of 1936. A railroad engine is pulling a railroad car (or more) over the underpass, but floodwaters underneath have reached nearly to the roofs of the cars parked on the left. 12.75 x 10 cm.

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Gelatin silver print snapshot, March 20, 1936. Image depicts a view of the intersection of Essex and Lawrence streets in Lawrence, Mass., during the flood of 1936, taken from a high angle, probably the upper floor in a nearby building. Cars and buses navigate the intersection which has partially filled with water. Note the large number of pedestrians on either side of the street. This intersection is three blocks north of the Merrimack River. See also item 20 in this folder. 12 x 9.5 cm.

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Gelatin silver print, 1893. Image depicts a fountain on the Lawrence Common in Lawrence, Mass., frozen in the winter of 1893. 11 x 15.75 cm.

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Gelatin silver print snapshot, March 20, 1936. Image depicts a view of the high water at the railroad bridge in Lawrence, Mass., during the flood of 1936. This bridge, formally known as the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad Bridge, is just downstream on the Merrimack River from the Lawrence Dam. The floodwaters have reached to the flooring of the bridge, leaving the railroad coal cars on the bridge very close to being overtaken by the river. 12.5 x 9.5 cm.

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Gelatin silver print snapshot, March 20, 1936. Image depicts a view of the Merrimack River at the Lawrence Dam in Lawrence, Mass., during the flood of 1936, taken from the north side of the river. Water rushing over the dam (from right to left) is virtually crashing into the bridge, just downstream of the dam. See item 27 in this folder for a view of the dam from the south side taken a day later. 12.5 x 9.5 cm.

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Gelatin silver print, March 21, 1936. Image depicts a view of the Merrimack River at the Lawrence Dam in Lawrence, Mass., during the flood of 1936, taken from the south side of the river. Water rushing over the dam (on the left) is virtually even with the floodwaters on the right. Written on the reverse: "Dam from South Side - Water eventually overran this territory." See item 26 in this folder for a view of the dam from the north side taken a day earlier. Copy A. 17.5 x 12.5 cm.

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Gelatin silver print snapshot, March 20, 1936. Image depicts the Balmoral Spa in Shawsheen Village (part of Andover, Mass.) during the flood of 1936. Water has reached halfway up the first-floor windows. Several men in a rowboat in the left background. See item 29 in this folder for a view taken a day later. 12 x 9.25 cm.

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print snapshot, March 21, 1936. Image depicts the Balmoral Spa (left background) and Shawsheen Square in Shawsheen Village (part of Andover, Mass.) during the flood of 1936. Water is now about three-quarters of the way up the first-floor windows. See item 28 in this folder for a view of the Spa taken a day earlier. Written on reverse of photo: "Shawsheen Square - Water was later as high as the bottom of the light on Silent Policeman." The Silent Policeman is probably the...