COLLECTION NAME:
Bill Powell Collection
Record
Filename:
MCPL_BPC_0059.jpg
Identifier:
MCPL_BPC_0059
Title:
600 Block of Broadway
Subject:
Floods
Subject:
Architecture -- Paducah (KY)
Subject:
Business enterprises -- Paducah (KY)
Subject:
Signs and signboards
Description:
Black and white photograph of the 600 block of Broadway in Paducah, KY, during the 1937 Flood. Visible are businesses such as West Kentucky Motor Company (611 - 615 Broadway), the Weille Building (617 - 619 Broadway), Meacham Stores (621 Broadway), Johnston Cleaners (623 Broadway), Broadway United Methodist Church, and more. The photograph appeared in the March 7, 1937 edition of Paducah Sun-Democrat with the caption, "FROM A WINDOW in the Irvin Cobb Hotel the camera saw (top left) flood waters climbing higher on the West Kentucky Motor Company and other Broadway buildings adjoining it."
Publisher:
McCracken County Public Library
Contributor:
Bill Powell
Contributor:
John Robertson
Date:
1937
Type:
Still image
Format:
Image/JPEG
Language:
English
Coverage:
Paducah (KY)
Rights:
Permission for reuse of this image must be obtained through the McCracken County Public Library Local and Family History Department.
