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coll399Budden - 52 Chuck Budden standing in the Crevasse at Melville
12017-07-25T08:49:52-07:00Special Collections, Edith Garland Dupré Library0d0dc2592d85ffae32e8b7bf0b1e276aa3f654cf205503Williams, H.S. 1927. Coll. 399, Allen "Chuck" Budden Collection. University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection, Edith Garland Dupré Library, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA.plain2017-09-21T08:48:24-07:00Special Collections, Edith Garland Dupré Library0d0dc2592d85ffae32e8b7bf0b1e276aa3f654cf
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12017-08-08T12:23:45-07:00Photographs from Allen "Chuck" Budden10Photographs from Allen Budden, who helped rescue victims of the floodplain4885712017-09-21T13:46:12-07:00 The following section contains photographs collected by Allen "Chuck" Budden (1902-1994). The photographs were mostly taken by his brother-in-law, H.S. "Swan" Williams, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard during the rescue operations during and after the flood. Williams gave Budden the photographs.
Budden was 24 years old during the flood and living in Palmetto. He went out with others to rescue people from their rooftops in the Palmetto, Melville and Bayou Current area. He also described how they collected the carcasses of dead animals that were contaminating the water -- doctors feared the spread of typhoid. In 1934 he opened Budden’s General Merchandise Store in Palmetto which is still in operation today. He lived his entire life in Palmetto and served several terms as mayor.
These photographs can be found in Collection 399 at the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection.
