{"id":18026,"date":"2024-04-27T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=18026"},"modified":"2024-04-27T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:31:42","slug":"the-karolyn-hall-luther-photograph-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2024\/04\/27\/the-karolyn-hall-luther-photograph-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Karolyn Hall Luther Photograph Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

April showers have been giving us a good soaking these last few days of the month — hopefully we will see no flooding along area waterways as a result. The waters of Davenport’s Duck Creek often jumped their banks in the past, and thanks to Karolyn Hall Luther, we have evidence of an instance in the late 1940s-early 1950s. Sometime during this period, Karolyn (and her husband Roy) photographed a summertime flood at her residence, the Davenport Motor Court trailer park at 3202 Harrison Street (close to the Creek). She saved her black and white snapshots in a scrapbook, the pages of which her family has kindly donated to the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center. We’ve recently digitized and uploaded the images in the Karolyn Hall Luther Photograph Collection<\/a> (#2023-11<\/a>) to the Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive (UMVDIA). A selection of these flood photographs is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n