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Marksville, La., Red Cross camp / Tarver photo. – Historic Photograph Print

Marksville, La., Red Cross camp / Tarver photo., 1927 May 21. — historic photograph
Marksville, La., Red Cross camp / Tarver photo., 1927 May 21.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Bell tents stand on the grounds at Marksville, Louisiana, in this May 21, 1927 view of an American Red Cross relief camp. Such tents, with their conical canvas roofs and central poles, sheltered families driven from their homes when the Mississippi and its tributaries spilled over their banks that spring. The Red Cross ran camps like this one to provide food, shelter, and medical care for people who had lost nearly everything. Tarver's photograph comes from an album of flood images, and it documents how emergency housing was organized in central Louisiana during one of the most destructive river floods in American history.

Created / published1927 May 21.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenreGelatin silver prints 1920-1930.
NotesIn album (disbound): Flood photographs, Mississippi River and tributaries, high water 1927. 4th-102. No. 14.
SubjectsAmerican Red Cross--Facilities--Louisiana--Marksville--1920-1930. Disaster relief--Louisiana--Marksville--1920-1930. Floods--Louisiana--Marksville--1920-1930. Bell tents--Louisiana--Marksville--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,138 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142530

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