Perry County, Mo., back water effect – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Perry County, Mo., back water effect in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Perry County, Mo., back water effect
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Rather than the river's main channel, this print records backwater, the flooding that spread up creeks and low ground in Perry County, Missouri, when the swollen Mississippi pushed water back into its tributaries. It belongs to a set of flood photographs from April 1927, when record high water along the Mississippi and its tributaries inundated farms and towns across several states. Albums like this one were often assembled to document the scale of the disaster, and this view suggests how far the damage reached beyond the river's banks.
| Created / published | 1927 April. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | In album (disbound): Flood photographs, Mississippi River and tributaries, high water 1927. Secty 19. |
| Subjects | Disasters--Missouri--Perry County--1920-1930. Floods--Missouri--Perry County--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 887 × 709 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-205450 |
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