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

NAT-1941-April-Flood0000.jpg
NAT-1941-April-Flood0001.jpg

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.