[Mississippi River flood] – Antique Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Mississippi River flood], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Catalog tags on this American Red Cross photoprint link it to refugees and Black residents displaced by the Mississippi River flood, though the caption data has not been verified. The 1927 flood was among the most destructive in the nation's history, as levees gave way across the Mississippi Delta and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. The Red Cross ran relief camps in the affected states, where families received food, shelter and medical care while floodwaters stayed high for weeks. Images from this relief effort document both the conditions in those camps and the scale of displacement that followed.
| Created / published | 1927 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint by American Red Cross. No. RC19289. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Rivers--Miss.; Floods; Refugees; Red Cross; Negroes. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 89 (Disaster relief, flood). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,216 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150008 |
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