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Source Collection
Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0475.73547_01.003
Description
Summer Avenue (then known as Bristol Hwy) looking east near the Wolf River during the 1937 flood. Note on the back of the image states that the crest was about 4 feet higher than when this photograph was taken.
Date Created
6-30-2021
Date
1937
Recommended Citation
"Summer Avenue near the Wolf River, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937" (2021). Memphis. 65.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-mpressscimitar5/65
Keywords
Wolf River (Miss. and Tenn.), River flood
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Archival Statement
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