Historic River Flooding Scenes

A collection of vintage photographs depicting rivers in flood, featuring flowing water, damaged infrastructure, and natural landscapes in Massachusetts.

Chicopee River, washed out culvert on Poole Street, Ludlow, Mass., 3:30 PM, Oct. 1, 1938 , New England Hurricane, 1938, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, roads

Ware River, looking downstream at Smiths Crossing (first bridge above Gilbertville), drainage area - 149 square miles, flow - 1790 cubic feet per second - 12.0 cubic feet per second per square mile, Gilbertville, Hardwick, Mass., 3:35 PM, Sep. 17, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Prince River, below Shaft #9 looking upstream, drainage area - 12.9 square miles, flow - 718 cubic feet per second - 55.6 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 3:40 PM, Sep. 16, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Chicopee River, washed out culvert on Poole Street, Ludlow, Mass., 3:30 PM, Oct. 1, 1938 , New England Hurricane, 1938, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, roads

Prince River, below Shaft #9 looking upstream, drainage area - 12.9 square miles, flow - 718 cubic feet per second - 55.6 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 3:40 PM, Sep. 16, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Danforth Brook, at swimming pool dam, drainage area - 6.6 square miles, flow - 194 cubic feet per second - 29.4 cubic feet per second per square mile (water to bottom of red keel mark), Hardwick, Mass., 5:50 PM, Sep. 16, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Danforth Brook, at swimming pool dam, drainage area - 6.6 square miles, flow - 194 cubic feet per second - 29.4 cubic feet per second per square mile (water to bottom of red keel mark), Hardwick, Mass., 5:50 PM, Sep. 16, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Overflow from Pratt Brook at Barre Plains, looking along road to Wheelwright, Hardwick, Mass., 11:55 AM, Mar. 12, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, towns, service stations, automobiles

Muddy Brook below Town of Ware pumping station, drainage area - 19 square miles, flow - 97 cubic feet per second - 5.1 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 3:40 PM, Mar. 21, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Ware River near degreasing plant of the Barre Wool Combing Co., drainage area - 103 square miles, flow over dam (visible in photo) - 690 cubic feet per second, flow through wheels - 220 cubic feet per second, total 910 cubic feet per second, Barre, Mass., 2:00 PM, Apr. 3, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Ware River, looking downstream at Smiths Crossing (first bridge above Gilbertville), drainage area - 149 square miles, flow - 1625 cubic feet per second - 10.9 cubic feet per second per square mile, Gilbertville, Hardwick, Mass., 3:00 PM, Apr. 13, 1934 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Floods - Arkansas and Mississippi River Flood, Aerial Photograph.

Flooded highway near mouth of Muddy Brook on Ware-Palmer Road, Ware, Mass., 3:35 PM, Mar. 19, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, roads, residential structures

Ware River, flooded meadows 1/4 above Old Furnace, drainage area - 137 square miles, flow 1120 cubic feet per second - 8.2 cubic feet per second per square mile, Hardwick, Mass., 2:50 PM, Apr. 3, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Ware River, looking downstream from bridge at Barre Plains, drainage area - 117 square miles, flow - 1413 cubic feet per second - 12.1 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 11:35 AM, Sep. 17, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Methuen Rt. 10 , Floods . Massachusetts

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Washout on Route #32 between Barre Plains and Wheelwright, Hardwick, Mass., 12:20 PM, Mar. 12, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, roads

Backwater from Muddy Brook and the Ware River, looking towards Vernon Street from the Ware-Enfield Road, Ware, Mass., 12:05 PM, Mar. 19, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, inhabited places

Beaver Brook below outlet at Beaver Lake, Ware, Mass., 9:35 AM, Mar. 13, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Ware River at sampling Station M-5, drainage area - 125 square miles, flow - 540 cubic feet per second - 4.4 cubic feet per second per square mile, Mass., Mar. 23, 1933 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Chicopee River, dam at Red Bridge hydroelectric station, Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, drainage area - 663 square miles, flow - 5500 cubic feet per second, 2.9 ft. of water over dam, no flow through canal, Ludlow, Mass., 2:00 PM, Apr. 5, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Overflow from Ware River at Gilbertville upper dam, Gilbertville, Hardwick, Mass., 2:40 PM, Mar. 19, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, railroads infrastructure, railroad stations, gasoline pumps, factories structures

Ware Mills, Otis Co. dam, drainage area - 168 square miles, flow - 1360 cubic feet per second over dam, 400 cubic feet per second through wheels, total - 1760 cubic feet per second - 10.5 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 10:20 AM, Apr. 17, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Ware River at sampling Station M-5, drainage area - 125 square miles, flow - 540 cubic feet per second - 4.4 cubic feet per second per square mile, Mass., Mar. 23, 1933 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Chicopee River, Ludlow mill pond, looking north at Ludlow Country Club golf course, drainage area - 686 square miles, flow - 7060 cubic feet per second - 10.3 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ludlow, Mass., 3:30 PM, Apr. 20, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, mill ponds, floods natural events, golf courses

Vintage Photograph. Flood Scene in Residential Area of Binghamton New York.

Pratt Brook at North Brookfield-Barre Plains Road, drainage area - 8 square miles, flow - 35 cubic feet per second - 4.4 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 11:30 AM, Mar. 22, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, road bridges, floods natural events

Elsevier photo collection. Flood Maas Cuyk. January 1920. Cuijk, Maas

Floods - Effects. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Flood Effects - Illinois. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Ware River, southwest of Ware, behind house #110 on the Palmer Road, west bank, looking northeast, Ware, Mass., 3:00 PM, Apr. 1, 1932 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, residential structures

Floods - Effects. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Flood Effects - Illinois. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Flood damage , Floods, Buildings. Lawrence

Flood damage , Floods, Streets. Lawrence

Wachusett Reservoir, 10-15-year-old burned over sprout land, Boylston, Mass., Feb. 7, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry

Family Units: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Ware River, at mouth of Prince River looking northeast, drainage area - 117 square miles, flow - 1410 cubic feet per second - 12.1 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 10:20 AM, Sep. 17, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Flood damage , Floods, Buildings. Lawrence

Muddy Brook, looking at G.H. Gilbert Manufacturing Co. dam, drainage area - 18 square miles, flow - 92 cubic feet per second - 5.1 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 3:55 PM, Mar. 21, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Floods - Alabama - Geneva, Aerial Photograph.

Danforth Brook, above bridge on Hardwick-Gilbertville Road, drainage area - 5 square miles, flow - 144 cubic feet per second - 28.8 cubic feet per second per square mile, Hardwick, Mass., 5:30 PM, Sep. 16, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Flood Effects - Iowa. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Flood Effects - Iowa. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Mass. Ave. & Salem St., N. And. , Floods, Streets . Massachusetts

The "Rasputicza", time of unemployment, possibly flooding of the Styr.

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Elsevier photo collection. Flood Reeuwijk Gouda. January 1926. Reeuwijk

Low lands at mouth of Prince River, flow - 99 cubic feet per second - 7.7 cubic feet per second per square mile, drainage area - 12.9 square miles, Barre, Mass., Mar. 9, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Beaver Brook at outlet of Beaver Lake, Ware, Mass., 9:30 AM, Mar. 13, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, dams hydraulic structures

Flood Effects - Iowa. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Swift River - East Branch, ice going out at the Greenwich Village Dam, flood photo, Greenwich, Mass., Mar. 19, 1936 : Parcel no. 371-50 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Ware River, meadows on south side of mill pond from Route #32, Ware Mills of Otis Co., drainage area - 168 square miles, flow 1280 cubic feet per second - 7.6 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 4:10 PM, Apr. 3, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, railroads infrastructure

Winimusset Brook near mouth, New Braintree, Mass., Jan. 31, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions

Chicopee River at Indian Orchard dam, Ludlow and Springfield, Mass., 2:30 PM, Mar. 13, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, dams hydraulic structures

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Flood Effects - Iowa. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Swift River - East Branch, ice going out at the Greenwich Village Dam, flood photo, Greenwich, Mass., Mar. 19, 1936 : Parcel no. 371-50 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Recreation For Profit - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Ware River at dam above East Street, Ware, Mass., 3:05 PM, Sep. 24, 1938 , New England Hurricane, 1938, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, dams hydraulic structures

Ware River, meadows 1/4 mile above Old Furnace looking northwest from Route #32, drainage area - 137 square miles, flow - 1475 cubic feet per second - 11.8 cubic feet per second per square mile, Hardwick, Mass., 11:15 AM, Sep. 18, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Orphan,water rising , Floods, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

Reservoirs - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Sludge in Chicopee River at Bircham Bend, Chicopee and Springfield, Mass., Jul. 21, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions

Danforth Brook at swimming pool dam, drainage area - 6.6 square miles, Gilbertville, Hardwick, Mass., Mar. 9, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Peppers Mill Pond dam showing washout, Ware, Mass., 9:55 AM, Mar. 19, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, dams hydraulic structures

Danforth Brook at swimming pool dam, drainage area - 6.6 square miles, Gilbertville, Hardwick, Mass., Mar. 9, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Photo collection Government information service. Wieringermeer, inundation and reconstruction. undated. Kolhorn

Tree damage , Tornadoes, Trees. Lawrence

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Erosion Effects - Mississippi. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Tree damage , Tornadoes, Trees. Lawrence

Dams - Completed. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Flood Effects - Iowa. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Subjects: Wildlife refuges; Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge; aircraft; ARLIS.

Donauststrom - ice breath , postcard, Verlagsanstalt Grapha Vienna, producer

Anefo photo collection. Chio in Rotterdam to contend with water flowing, overview. September 3, 1965. Rotterdam, South Holland

Swift River - East Branch, Greenwich Village Dam, flood photo, Greenwich, Mass., Mar. 19, 1936 : Parcel no. 371-50 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Water shortage 1953.

Water shortage 1953.

Civilian Conservation Corps - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Cleaning snow from N.Y. streets

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