City's Flood-Hit Records Restored to Normal Status
Title
City's Flood-Hit Records Restored to Normal Status
Subject
Floods
Description
Undoing the work of the 1937 flood was the job assigned to six W.P.A. employees last September when the City decided to have its records put back in shape....until last September very little effort was made to file or bind the records - some going back as far as city's founding. Tax receipts, city council reports, bonds, burial permits, building permits, assessment rolls, ... imagine 110 years of those filed helter-skelter in the middle of the basement room, and then turn on the water and let them float around for a few months... Now, in the 15-foot-square basement room which has been cleaned and white washed, nearly all of the records have been bound securely, marked, catalogued and placed in shelves on all four walls...
Creator
New Albany Tribune
Source
New Albany Tribune
Publisher
New Albany-Floyd County Public Library
Date
1941-04-01
Contributor
Bob Johnson
Rights
All applicable copyright to this article belongs to the New Albany Tribune.
Format
image/jpeg
Language
en
Type
Text
Identifier
MFNAT1941040112
Coverage
New Albany (Ind.)
1937 Flood (New Albany, Ind.)
Original Format
Newspaper
Files
Citation
New Albany Tribune, “City's Flood-Hit Records Restored to Normal Status,” Digital Exhibits, accessed March 29, 2024, https://nafcdigital.omeka.net/items/show/183.