0757a_Riv_Flood_Sweeps_Paducah_WPA_Scan_1937_01_RG2920J

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In Folder: Division of Community Service- Writers' Project, Photos Rivers and Bridges (0726-0798), 1937-1940

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0757a_Riv_Flood_Sweeps_Paducah_WPA_Scan_1937_01_RG2920J

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title: "The Flood Sweeps Paducah--Business section of the city of Paducah, Ky., under water in the great flood of January 1937," Photo 0757, January 1937

creator: United States. Division of Community Service- Writers' Project

contributor: United States. Works Project Administration in Kentucky

date: 1937-01

description: "The Flood Sweeps Paducah--Business section of the city of Paducah, Ky., under water in the great flood of January 1937," Photo 0757, January 1937- scannedBlack and white aerial photograph showing a city covered by underwater by a flood. The flood line appears to reach up to the roofs for most of the building structures with only the church and a few taller structures just above.

subject: Rivers

subject: Bridges

subject: Inland water transportation--United States

subject: Photographs

type: Image

identifier: Riv0757_M0047-A1992-464-RG2920J

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