By Jackie Couture
Collection Overview
Title: Louisville Flood Scrapbook, 1937
Extent: 0.15 Cubic Feet
Date Acquired: 07/30/1984
Languages: English [eng]
Scope and Contents of the Materials
A scrapbook with news clippings from the Louisville area during and after the 1937 flood of the Ohio River Valley. The clippings include many photographs of water levels, police enforcing the quarantine, and damage to property. Also included are five postcards showing water levels on various street corners.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Source:
Ellis, William
Box and Folder Listing
- Box 1
- Barcode: 31234013923691
- Folder 1: Postcards, 1937
- Five postcards showing water levels in Louisville during the 1937 flood.
- Item 1: Barrel and Broadway Beat Station, 1937
- Item 2: First and Breckinridge, 1937
- Item 3: Fourth and Broadway, Looking East, 1937
- Item 4: Fourth Street Looking North, 1937
- Item 5: Third and Chestnut, Looking South, 1937
- Folder 2: Scrapbook, 1937
- Newspaper clippings of the flood in and around Louisville. Also includes a "Souvenir of the 1937 Louisville, Jeffersonville, New Albany Flood," published by K.S. Caufield of Louisville.
- Folder 3: Newspaper, 1937
- Item 1: Courier-Journal and Times, 26 Jan 1937
- Flood edition