WAVE Radio Flood Records, 1937, Jan. 22-Mar. 4n.d.

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Title

WAVE Radio Flood Records

Date

1937, Jan. 22-Mar. 4n.d

Repository

The Filson Historical Society Special Collections Louisville, Kentucky 40208 USA

Conditions Governing Access note

Open to researchers.

Preferred Citation Note

[Identification of item], WAVE Radio Flood Records, 1937, Jan. 22-Mar. 4, Special Collections, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville.

Extent

51 items

Scope and Content

Louisville radio station. Radio broadcasts and bulletins by WAVE, 22 Jan.-4 Mar. 1937, regarding the 1937 flood. Included are weather reports; statistics on flood levels; requests by Louisville mayor Neville Miller for help; descriptions of fires, devastation, closed roads and railroads, water shortages, and power failures; advice as to hygienic safeguards; and information on refugee locations, law enforcement, and rescue efforts

Subjects

• Afro-Americans-- Kentucky-- Louisville-- History-- 20th century.
• Afro-Americans-- Kentucky-- Louisville-- History-- Sources.
• Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)-- History-- 20th century.
• Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)-- History-- Sources.
• Floods-- Kentucky-- Louisville-- History-- 20th century.
• Floods-- Kentucky-- Louisville-- History-- Sources.
• Louisville (Ky.).-- Division of Fire-- History-- 20th century.
• Louisville (Ky.).-- Division of Fire-- History-- Sources.
• Miller, Neville, 1894-1977.
• Radio stations-- Kentucky-- Louisville-- Archives.