[PW] Re: 1937 Flood pics in LIFE magazine

[Copper Queen]

I'm from Louisville, KY and I have seen the photo she is talking about. I 
was born in 1941, so either I saw it in a magazine that was contemporary to 
the time of the flood that one of my relatives may have saved or I saw it 
more recently, like 1957 when there was, I believe, an historical "replay" 
of the 1937 edition. I lived with my grandparents and they subscribed to 
LIFE in the 1950's.

I have never subscribed to National Geographic nor have any of my family 
that I know of.

I don't know of an index to LIFE.

cq

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Davis" <wmadavis at iglou.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:33 PM
Subject: [PW] Re: 1937 Flood pics in LIFE magazine


>
> 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
>> >>
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