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By Jackie Couture
Collection Overview
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.
Collection Historical Note
In January, 1937, six to twelve inches of rain fell in Ohio over a ten day period causing wide scale flooding in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. The floods left a million people homeless and communities throughout Kentucky were called upon to help house the refugees.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Ellis, William
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Box:
[Box 1],
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- 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
