Offered is a Knowlton Brothers stereoview depicting the ruins of George P Warner’s Button Factory in Leeds Massachusetts. The Mill River Flood of 1874. On May 16, 1874 a reservoir (Williamsburg Dam) supplying the villages of Williamsburg, Leeds and Haydenville swept down the hills and through the villages completely destroying them. Whole houses and factories were swept away. It was reported that 51 people perished from that factory alone and only the chimney remained standing. It is reported that the Knowlton Brothers took 19 different images of this incident. This is #79. Soiling to the top edge of the images. The mount is rough and corners badly rounded. See scans.