Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images
April 30, 1927
Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A gelatin silver print of the 1927 flooding of the Mississippi River. This is a set of four images on one sheet of paper, itself pasted onto a scrapbook page. At top left: Boyer Service Station; at top right: two-story wood frame house; at bottom left: two-story building with four columns; at bottom right: house with two cars flooded.
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Catalog reference: 2011.13.3
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