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Floods -- Ohio River

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Physical Plant general office files

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1973_214-UA
Dates: 1900-1945
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Postcards of flood and Camp Knox

 Collection
Identifier: 1992_036-UA
Content Description

Postcards (many by Caufield and Shook) depicting 1937 Louisville flood and a Thanksgiving dinner program for Battery D, 68th Field Artillery, Nov. 28, 1918, at Camp Knox (now Fort Knox) Kentucky.

Dates: 1918-1937
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Postcards of flood and Camp Knox

Ruth Perkins Flood of 1937 scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2017_029
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Tom Schulze papers

 Collection — Item 1
Identifier: 1988_032-UA
Content Description

This collection consists of a scrapbook of the 1937 flood in Louisville, Ky. The clippings include almost entire copies of twelve flood edition issues published by Louisville papers and printed out of town.

Dates: 1937
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Tom Schulze papers

Patsie E. Sloan papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2000_077-UA
Content Description

The Patsie E. Sloan papers document her police service and her role as a PTA leader. They also include a report on the 1937 Ohio River flood and her 1937 student paper, "A Study of the Louisville Division of Police." A small portion of the collection relates to Sloan's son, John Steward Sloan, and her other children.

Dates: 1922-1947
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Patsie E. Sloan papers

Eva Sesmer and Herbert Mitchell Snyder papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1980_009-UA
Scope and Contents This collection is foremost a reflection of the numerous interests of Eva Semser Snyder. There is a body of letters, with a few photographs interspersed, from Allied soldiers that she met during World War I. A few items illustrate her work as a Public Health Nurse during the 1937 Flood. For the World War II era and following, there are commendations, citations, and numerous job applications, usually for positions utilizing her skill in Russian. Newspaper clippings, with related...
Dates: 1907-1979
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Eva Sesmer and Herbert Mitchell Snyder papers

Social Sciences 542 - Historic Louisville student papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1985_035-UA
Dates: 1984
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

William A. and Fannie Spindle ledger book

 Collection
Identifier: 2012_083-UA
Content Description A ledger book divided into three sections: 1991-1912; 1942-1947; and 1937-1950. The earliest portion of the volume consists of the minutes, 1911-1912, of the Parkland Improvement Club maintained by lawyer William A. Spindle. The center section of the volume served as a general ledger recording the monthly personal expenses and the income and expenses, 1942-1947, associated with rental property presumably owned by Spindle's widow, Fannie. The last section provides a detailed accounting of...
Dates: 1911-1950
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / William A. and Fannie Spindle ledger book

William Weber flood scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2011_058-UA
Content Description

Scrapbook from the 1937 Ohio Valley flood, including clippings from Louisville and Chicago newspapers as well as official flood documents. The collection also includes loose newspaper clippings of the 50th anniversary flood commemoration as well as other newspaper issues circa 1940.

Dates: 1937-1987
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / William Weber flood scrapbook