[PW] Re: 1937 Flood pics in LIFE magazine

[Jimm Wetherbee]

There is one more on pg. 779 of a drowned cow suspended in mid-air (from
the looks more that 18') by the head on a tree branch.

--jimm

Ted Nesbitt wrote:
> Bill:
>
> In the "Men Against the Rivers" article, June, 1937 issue of National Geographic, there are TWO cow photos:  p. 786, "Mooing cows climbing upstairs and walking out on your sleeping porch can be more than a nightmare in high-water times."  [The photo is identified as "a porch in Paducah."]  On p. 779, there is a gruesome photo of a cow dangling from a tree "below Eddyville, Kentucky."  "One theory is that the beast, swimming the high water, became exhusted, laid its head between forked limbs to rest, and was caught there as the flood subsided."
>
> I'd be happy to fax both photos, but their quality is not good.
>
> Ted Nesbitt
> Elbin Library 
> West Liberty State College
> West Liberty, WV - 2607 
>
> Bill Davis <wmadavis at iglou.com> 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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