Safe,levee,breakfast scene,flood,Boat race,overflows,Mississippi River,1987

Title: Safe on the levee, breakfast scene during flood of 1897. Boat race in the overflow, scene during the flood of 1897
Date Created/Published: [photographed 1897, printed 1901?]
Summary: Afro-Americans gathered on a levee with pots and pans on the ground; group portrait of Afro-Americans attending a boat race showing 4 canoes with participants.
Notes:
Engraving by Brinkerhoff & Barnett Co. of Chicago and Gatchell & Manning of Philadelphia.
Illus. in: Riparian lands of the Mississippi River ... / by Frank H. Tompkins. Chicago : A.L. Swift & Co., c1901, p. 271.
Reference copy also available in Specific Subj. File - Floods - Mississippi? Mississippi River 1897.
Subjects:
African Americans--1890-1900.
Levees--Mississippi River--1890-1900.
Floods--Mississippi River--1890-1900.
Canoes--Mississippi River--1890-1900.
Book illustrations--1900-1910.
Group portraits--1900-1910.
Halftone photomechanical prints--1900-1910.
Bookmark /91796520/
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