[PW] Re: 1937 Flood pics in LIFE magazine

[Bill Davis]

Thanks to all who responded to my query.   No index seems available per se, 
but we have it narrowed down to the few issues that related to the 
flooding.  I will have to get access to those old issues and scan through 
them to see if there is such a photo.

Thanks Again,

Bill Davis


At 03:33 PM 8/9/2006, you wrote:


>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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