[PW] Re: 1937 Flood pics in LIFE magazine

[Bill Davis]

My informant indicated the photo appeared in LIFE magazine.   She is 
elderly and this was so long ago that I won't be suprised if she is mistaken.

Is there an index to Life Magazine detailed enough that it would pick up, 
say, "Warsaw, Kentucky?"

Thanks,

Bill Davis




At 02:43 PM 8/9/2006, you wrote:

>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
> >>