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The Florence Flood Archived 5 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine News, archives, and photos for the Florence flood of 1966; Cities and Disaster: The Florence Flood of 1966 A summary of events surrounding the flood. CEDAF Documentation Center on Florence Floods. Preliminary inventory to the Harold W. Tribolet. Archive on the Florence Flood 1929 ...
Florence: Days of Destruction (Italian: Per Firenze) is a 1966 documentary about the 1966 Flood of the Arno River and its catastrophic effect on the city of Florence. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli , it is Zeffirelli's only documentary, and features the only known film footage of the flood.
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Horton and volunteers known as "Mud Angels", helped museums and libraries in Florence, Italy to recover books and manuscripts damaged from the 1966 flood of the Arno. Horton developed novel emergency conservation techniques which she also applied in the 1972 flood of the Corning Glass Museum in Corning, New York.
1966: 1966 Flood of the Arno River: Italy: 35: heavy rains and snowmelting 1967: 1967 Portugal floods: Portugal: The official death toll was 495 deaths. Unofficial ...
High water marks of Arno river floods on August 13, 1547 (left) and November 3, 1844 (metal plate on the right). Photographed in Via delle Casine. The flood on November 4, 1966 collapsed the embankment in Florence, killing at least 40 people and damaging or destroying millions of works of art and rare books. New conservation techniques were ...
A major flood of the Arno River in 1966 damaged nearly one-third of the library's holdings, most notably its periodicals and Palatine and Magliabechi collections. [1] The Restoration Center was subsequently established and may be credited with saving many of these priceless artifacts.