Scrapbook of the 1937 flood
The Ohio River flood of 1937 devastated communities along the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois. It was the deepest Ohio River flood on record in many major cities of the Ohio River Valley. Majorly affected cities include Cincinnati, Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky; Jeffersonville, Indiana; Evansville, Indiana; Paducah, Kentucky; and Harrisburg, Illinois. Throughout the entire Ohio River Valley, the flood left about a million people homeless, claimed at least 385 lives, and caused over $500 million (at the time) in damages.
The collection contains one scrapbook of newspaper clippings highlighting all aspects of the infamously devastating 1937 Ohio River flood. The scrapbook was compiled in 1937 by Mrs. George W. Lee inside the pages of a 1931 Remedial English textbook (which was actually used a textbook by Elizabeth Withers in 1936).