[PW] Re: LIFE magazine index [Was 1937 Flood pics in LIFE magazine]

[Bill Davis]

Thanks for finding this.     If it says Warsaw at all, that is probably the 
photo my informant was thinking of.  She may have confused her knowledge of 
the event with what photo actually showed.   Or she may have confused it 
with other photos that appeared in the newspapers.   There is a whole side 
story to all this, involving the ferries from nearby towns taking cows to 
higher ground.

Does someone on the list have the capability of scanning the photo and 
emailing it to me?

Thanks,

Bill Davis
wmadavis at iglou.com




At 03:45 PM 8/14/2006, you wrote:


>On pg. 10 of the Feb. 8, 1937 issue of _Life_, there is a picture with the
>following caption:
>
>"A herd of cows was trapped when the Ohio rolled over this farm near
>Warsaw, Ky."
>
>There is no porch, and it looks to be an aerial view, so the cows are very
>small. They are just standing in the water. Could the patron have merged
>the memory of the _National Geographic" photo and this one into one photo?
>
>
>--Andrea
>   St. Paul Public Library
>
>
>On Mon, August 14, 2006 12:01 pm, Denise Montgomery said:
> > I checked the Retrospective version of Reader's Guide online, which
> > reminded
> > me of the Ohio Valley floods during the early part of 1937, which I had
> > heard about on my visits to Louisville, KY.
> >
> > So I went into Proquest Historic Newspapers, searched for Louisville, KY
> > and
> > flood and limited to the time period of January 15 to March 31. The flood
> > that left 50,000 homeless was reported in the NY Times on January 22, and
> > had stories about the cleanup as late as Feb. 21, 1937. So I imagine the
> > story the patron is looking for is in the issues between the dates covered
> > from January 22, 1937  through the end of Febrary, 1937, not a very long
> > period of time to have to look at.
> >
> >                                                        Denise Montgomery
> >                                                        Valdsota State
> > University Library
> >