Destruction from an Ohio River flood : Flood refugees

Item Information

Title:
Destruction from an Ohio River flood : Flood refugees
Description:
Copy image: It takes more than flood or famine to keep the stork from going on his appointed rounds. Here is a scene in the market auditorium, Wheeling refuge for flood sufferers, where a temporary lying-in hospital was set up for Mrs. Carrie Rollison who expected a baby hourly. Shown in the photo left to right are male nurse Warren Melzdorf, Mrs. Rollison, Jackie and Betty Rollison, two of her children, and nurse Gertrude Walters. Int. News Photo.
Photographer:
Blackington, Alton H.
Date:
[ca. January 25, 1937]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Black-and-white photographs
Black-and-white negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Alton H. Blackington Collection
Subjects:
Disaster relief--West Virginia--Photographs
Floods--West Virginia--Photographs
Natural disasters--West Virginia--Photographs
Nurses--West Virginia--Photographs
Melzdorf, Warren
Rollison, Betty
Rollison, Carrie
Rollison, Jackie
Walters, Gertrude
Places:
West Virginia
Extent:
1 photograph ; 12.5 x 10 cm.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl223-i001
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Wheeling (W.Va.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph061-sl223-i001