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Interview with Ruth Richardson Frederick

Description: Ruth Richardson Frederick was 15 at the time of the flood. She describes her life in Jeffersonville and Port Fulton and the devastation that occurred as seen through her teenage eyes. For the story from her mothers point of view, look at the Oral history interview of Catherine Banks Richardson. The thumbnail image was her high school senior picture as published in the Jeffersonville High School Yearbook. For images of what our interviewee experienced, copy the following link to Mud, Sweat, and Tears at the Indiana State Library in your web browser. (http://cdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16066coll24/searchterm/MudSweatTears1937/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/title)
Origin: 1983-08-10
Created By: Frederick, Ruth Richardson; Day, Stephen
Contributor(s): Winston, Vaughn, technical assistant; Jackson, Larry, technical assistant; Weidner, Jen, transcription
Source: http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll12/id/27
Collection: Jeffersonville Township Public Library
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/;
Subjects: Floods--Indiana--Clark County
Floods--Ohio River Valley
Floods
Oral history

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