[PW] Re: 1937 Flood pics in LIFE magazine

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Bill--


I found a picture of a cow on a porch on p. 786 of the June 1937 National
Geographic. I can scan it for you later this afternoon.


--Andrea


On Mon, August 7, 2006 10:50 pm, Ellen Cousins said:
> Hello Bill,
>
> This page says that a photo appeared in National Geographic of a cow on
> a Kentucky porch in 1937:
>
>   ...The area's most devastating event of the twentieth century was the
> flood of 1937 when 90% of Paducah was covered with flood waters.  Over
> 27,000 residents were evacuated.  After six weeks of rain in the Ohio
> River Valley, the river crested at 60.8 feet, nearly 11 feet above the
> elevation of this present sidewalk.  National Geographic featured a
> photo of a cow on the second story porch of a Lower Town neighborhood
> home...
>
> http://www.nostalgiaville.com/travel/Kentucky/paducah/paducah22001.htm
>
> The accompanying photo montage may show your cow in the top right
> corner, but it is not clear at this resolution. The National Geographic
> photo (if it was NG) probably ran in June 1937:
>
> Title: 	 Men Against the Rivers
> Date: 	June 1937
> Pages: 	767-794
>
> Contributor(s): 	Simpich, Frederick Author
> Subject(s): 	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
> Floods
> Rivers
> Mississippi River and Valley, U.S.
> Ohio River and Valley, U.S.
>
> HTH
>
> Ellen C.
>
>
> Bill Davis wrote:
>> An elderly lady told me that she believed at the time of the 1937 Ohio
>> River flood, LIFE Magazine carried photos of cows standing on the porch
>> of
>> a house near Warsaw, Kentucky.
>>
>> I've found some magazine guides indicating the flood was featured in
>> issues
>> in February of 1937 and in later followup issues, but does anyone have
>> access to an index specific enough to indicate which issue and page this
>> may have appeared in?
>>
>> Ultimately I'd like to see this photograph, if it existed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill Davis
>>
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