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

[Bill Davis]

Andrea Herman has sent me a scan of the photo from LIFE.

Thanks again to all who helped me with my query.

Bill Davis



At 04:33 PM 8/14/2006, you wrote:


>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
> > >