Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Recommended Repository Citation
Jeffrey, Jonathan. (2013). Looking Back: Librarian Describes Louisville Free Public Library Flood Damage in 1937. Kentucky Libraries, 77 (3), 10-12.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fac_pub/35
LFPL.jpg (390 kB)
This photograph documents some of the damage caused by the books as they ”swelled and exerted such a tremendous lateral pressure that many of the castings [of the cast iron stacks] were snapped in two.”
This photograph documents some of the damage caused by the books as they ”swelled and exerted such a tremendous lateral pressure that many of the castings [of the cast iron stacks] were snapped in two.”
Comments
Definitive version of this article in Kentucky Libraries (v.77, no.3), Summer 2013 as a column for Looking Back.