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Illustrations of the Flood at Sheffield: drowned cattle at High Bank, on the River Don, 1864. Creator: Unknown.

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Illustrations of the Flood at Sheffield: drowned cattle at High Bank, on the River Don, 1864. Aftermath of a burst reservoir, caused by inadequate building materials. Over a hundred people were killed. '...a number of cattle...lay at High Bank, having been carried down by the flood to that part of the river - their carcasses hugely swollen, and plastered with mud and clay, an ugly spectacle, and such as may seldom be found in the suburbs of a great commercial town. When daylight broke, on the Saturday morning, large trees and dead cows and horses were lying mixed with several human bodies in the very streets of Sheffield'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A25_448

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,0Mo (2,9Mo) / 32,7cm x 23,0cm / 3863 x 2715 (300dpi)

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weather animal England female women woman people male man men destruction arts livestock cattle art guy British color dead death disaster century flooded Britain catastrophe newspapers press print concept flood floods B&W flooding south yorkshire bad weather farm animal engraved engraving farm animals Sheffield Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century