Flood, February Flash [Published]

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Title: Flood, February Flash [Published]
Abstract: Photo caption from published version of 54-5883_002: "RESCUE WORKERS - Two houses in the low lying area of Lancaster St. West across from the Grand River Golf Club were surrounded by four feet of water and firemen used a boat to take food to the stranded families."
Item description: Image of firefighters and a photographer standing in a boat in a body of water outside two residential homes.
General note: Title supplied by Kitchener-Waterloo Record staff.
54-5883_002 and a photo missing from envelope appeared on the front page Tuesday, February 16, 1954 edition of the newspaper as part of the article: "Move Residents by Boats As Rains Cause K-W Flood."
Publisher: Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Collection: Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection
Location: 54-5883
Identifier: 54-5883_002
Date created: 1954-02-16
Date published: 1954-02-16
Extent: 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 8 x 10 cm
Genre: negatives
Corporate creator name: Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Subject(s): Boats
Floods
Continent: North America
Country: Canada
Province: Ontario
Region: Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality)
Usage rights: Public Domain
Preferred citation: University of Waterloo Library. Special Collections & Archives. Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection. Flood, February Flash [Published]. 54-5883_002.