[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Susquehanna River Flood of 1936]

Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 1936. Very good.. Twenty-seven leaves, illustrated with twenty-six photographs, each 4.75 x 6.75 inches, each with a manuscript caption in white ink beneath the image. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album, string tied, string partially perished. An exceptional album of vernacular photographs capturing scenes in and around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in the aftermath of the devastating Susquehanna River flood in March 1936. The manuscript title leaf reads, "Flood Photographs Wilkes-Barre, Pa March 1936." While vernacular, the photographs were composed by an obviously-skilled shutterfly. The subjects or locations of the photographs include Ross Street, River Street, Main Street, Hazel Street, St. Mary's Road, various elevated views from buildings or hills, two views of river water flowing into a mine cave on the Lackawanna River, and more. An uncommonly sophisticated album with captions printed in a clearly-executed italic hand beneath well-composed photographs capturing the devastation of this historically flood-prone Pennsylvania city.