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Looking Back: Librarian Describes Louisville Free Public Library Flood Damage in 1937
Kentucky Libraries
  • Jonathan Jeffrey, Western Kentucky University
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7-1-2013
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Definitive version of this article in Kentucky Libraries (v.77, no.3), Summer 2013 as a column for Looking Back.

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Jonathan Jeffrey. "Looking Back: Librarian Describes Louisville Free Public Library Flood Damage in 1937" Kentucky Libraries Vol. 77 Iss. 3 (2013) p. 10 - 12
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jonathan_jeffrey/28/
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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.”