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Up for sale is an exceptional, historically significant lot of seven original vintage black and white snapshot photographs meticulously documenting the catastrophic Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 in Paducah, Kentucky. This historic disaster inundated 90% of McCracken County, making this set a premier primary-source archive.The photographs capture candid, haunting views of completely submerged city avenues, water creeping up the steps of historic brick commercial blocks, flooded utility poles, and completely cut-off roadways.What sets this lot into a premier tier for advanced historians is the extraordinary, detailed handwritten location ledgers across the reverse sides of the photo stocks, reading:
* \"10th & Ky ave looking South on 10th st.\"
* \"2nd st at Caldwell looking south.\"
* \"Second st at Washington looking south on 2nd with the N.+N. trucking thry water the second building is the W.A.A. Head quarters just past the Hawkins building on Corner.\"
* \"Paducah Gun Club Routs 45 N. 8th st looking East towards Brookport Ill.\"
* \"19th + Ky ave looking East on Ky ave with I.C.R.R. [Illinois Central Railroad] shop in the Distance.\" (Features a prominent roadside billboard for the \"Home Ice Co. Open\" visible along the flooded canal edge).
* \"2nd + Jefferson looking East on Jefferson by the side of the International Shoe Co.\"An incredible centerpiece acquisition for collectors of Kentucky local history, genealogy researchers tracking Paducah families, or museum archives documenting the 1937 Great Flood.
