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    <abstract id="aspace_d606246dbd7b4184bf21a220cfb1f96d">Newspaper clippings, picture-books, postcard albums, and government reports relating to floods along the Ohio River Valley especially at Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and Parkersburg.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ohio Valley Floods, Papers, A&amp;M 2408, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054720" source="lcsh">Pittsburgh (Pa.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85094291" source="lcsh">Ohio River Valley</geogname>
    <geogname source="ingest">Parkersburg.</geogname>
    <subject source="local_LC">Floods  -- West Virginia -- Wheeling</subject>
    <subject source="local_LC">Floods  -- West Virginia -- Parkersburg</subject>
    <subject source="local_LC">Floods  -- West Virginia -- Ohio River</subject>
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    <subject source="ingest">Ohio Valley - floods.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Rivers and river valleys.</subject>
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