Type: Photograph – Mounted - Collodion POP

Subject: “Grand View Cemetery”, “”Unknown Dead” Plot”, “Johnstown, Pa.” (titled in the negative)

Photographer: The Boston Art Co.

Studio Location: Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Date: 1894-1900

Size: 8 5/16 x 6 1/4 inches (photograph), 10 x 7 inches (mount)

Content & History: The Unknown Plot contains the bodies of 777 victims of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.

The Boston Art Co. purchased the studio owned by George Miles Greene in 1894. ‘

Condition: Stain/Soiling on the lower left corner area, vertical crease down the right side, other soiling and wear. Mount is also missing its two top corners. See pictures. 

References:

The Photographic Times, Volume 27. 1895 (pg. 186)

Item Number: 000090