Views of the Mississippi River,tributaries after the flood of 1927

Views of the Mississippi River and tributaries after the flood of 1927
Title: Views of the Mississippi River and tributaries after the flood of 1927
Related Names:
Ewing, Inc. , photographer
Date Created/Published: 1927.
16 photomechanical prints : halftone ; 21 x 13.5 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes flood waters and recovery efforts in parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri. Many photographs show crevasses in broken levees; construction of new levees; inundated towns; disaster victims and their household goods on the levees; Red Cross rescue operations; temporary tent cities on the levee; silt and earth piled up in buildings as water recedes.
Notes:
Photographs originally presented in two albums which were disbound by the Library for preservation purposes in 2001. Original album covers bearing titles in gold lettering were retained for reference purposes. They are filed under call number (LOT 3375) in the P&P Supplemental Archives filing series.
Images are mounted on 11 x 14 in. album pages made of black construction paper.
Captions accompany many of the photographs.
Many photographs copyrighted in 1927 by Ewing, Inc. Some images, reproduced as photomechanical prints, are credited to various commercial photographers and the U.S. Army Air Corps.
A digitized image of each print along with its associated identifying information is available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Gift; 1928; James M. Parker and Senator W. L. Jones.
Subjects:
Floods--Mississippi River Valley--1920-1930.
Rescue work--Mississippi River Valley--1920-1930.
Disaster victims--Mississippi River Valley--1920-1930.
Mississippi River--1920-1930.
Gelatin silver prints--1920-1930.
Halftone photomechanical prints--1920-1930.
Bookmark /2002715116/
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