Natural disasters in the United States (1936)

Waves wash over the city embankment.

A car moves along a flooded road.

Waves wash over the pier, smashing small boats and yachts.

People try to pull a yacht ashore.

Moored small craft are battered by waves against the pier.

Waves wash over the embankment and coastal streets of Pittsburgh during the flood of March 17-18, 1936. Streams of water from an overflowing river.

A stream of rising water overflows a highway bridge.

Water spills over the bridge's roadway.

Views of flooded Pittsburgh streets.

People in boats on flooded city streets.

Views of a flooded Liberty Avenue.

Panorama of the bridge, rushing streams of water.

Flooded streets of Pittsburgh, water currents and whirlpools.

Rescuers row along one of the streets.

A firefighter rows while inspecting flooded streets and searching for people.

Rescuers throw a box of groceries to a man on the second floor of a flooded house.

Stores flooded to the rooftops.

Rescuers in a boat.

City residents flee the flooding on the upper floors of their buildings.

Residents of one of the houses are being evacuated; rescuers help a woman into a boat.

A view of a flooded street; two chickens float on a board.

Turbulent streams of water on city streets; people cross the torrent using the wires of a de-energized power line.

Residents of a US town clear rubble after a fire.

Boats washed ashore.

Forest fires in the US. Firefighting by hand.

Burning trees.

Panorama of a forest fire (from above).

Firefighters extinguish the fire with a hose.

Cowboys rescue horses from the fire.

Forest fires in the US. Smoke from forest fires.

Panorama of a burning town.