A boy wearing metal pails on his feet stands in water surrounding a house. Labeled time is 11:00. Image is stamped Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky.
A car parked in front of a building on a partially flooded street lined by houses. The water approaches the car's bumper. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. Original negative is...
A car parked next to debris in front of a large brick building. Water is on the ground. Labeled time is 1:15. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. Original negative is...
Floods; Automobiles; Automobile service stations; Buildings; Transportation; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Flood damage
A car ruined by the 1937 flood sits outside the Bybee Bros. service station. The car is covered in mud, inside and out, as is shown by the open car door and the front tire is flat. A sign for Standard Oil products stands above the gas pumps.
A child crouches in a small wooden boat next to an exposed front yard with two other children crouched in the yard. More people are on a porch in the distance. The flooded street is lined by houses. A tire floats in the foreground. Labeled time is...
Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Streets; People
A crowd of people stand on the sidewalks on an elevated portion of a Louisville street with flooded areas below. Cars are parked on either side of the street. Title supplied by cataloger.
A dark-colored horse is stuck in the high branches of a tree, possibly as a result of a tornado. Men in heavy clothing stand in front of the copse of trees.
Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; People
A figure stands in the middle of a creek or flooded field surrounded by trees. Labeled time is 2:30. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. Original negative is deteriorated.
A flooded residential street, presumably in Louisville, Kentucky, in the aftermath of the 1937 flood, including two small children standing on a lawn and a car parked beyond the floodwaters.
Streets; Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Buildings; Men
A group of men stand at the corner of Fehr Avenue and an unidentified street on an exposed patch of sidewalk facing a flooded street and intersection. Labeled time is 2:10. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners...
A group of men stand in front of a bar or restaurant with Falls City beer signs while more people stand at the doorway. The street in front of them is flooded with water at the base of the tires of a car by the restaurant. Labeled time is 10:30....
Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Bridges; Men
A group of men stand on a bridge with rising water on either side. Labeled time is 2:30. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. Original negative is deteriorated.
Streets; Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Buildings; Bridges; Pedestrian bridges; People
A group of people stand on a narrow wooden bridge running alongside a flooded street. Labeled time is 2:00. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky.
A group stands on a cobblestone road. A little boy wearing bib overalls and a straw hat holds a sign reading "Derby Bound." Next to him is a toddler in a small two-wheeled wagon that is strapped to a dog. Behind them is a man in a woman's...
A large boat is in the foreground of a partially flooded street lined by stores and houses. Two men sit in a rowboat at the intersection of Dixie Highway and St. Louis Avenue. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by...
Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Streets; Buildings; Houses; Vehicles; Street railroad tracks; Men
A large SilverFleet Moving Express truck backed up to the front of a house at the intersection of a flooded street. Water spills out of a manhole on the street. Three men stand in front of the truck on a gravel patch near the streetcar tracks....
A line of cars on a flooded and icy street at a residential intersection, possibly in Old Louisville. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky.
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.); Buildings; Schools
A little path trimmed in stones leads from a road to a house with a sign in front of it reading, "Practice House - Girls' Projects." The house is a couple of stories tall and made of wood. It has a covered porch by the front door and...
A long hallway has lockers on either side. Pendant lights hang down from the ceiling. A water fountain is mounted to the wall on the right and a number of radiators are mounted along the walls. In the distance is a double set of windows.
