Helena, Ark., loading refugees & stocks – Historic Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Helena, Ark., loading refugees & stocks in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Helena, Ark., loading refugees & stocks
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Helena, on the Mississippi bluffs in eastern Arkansas, is the setting here, and the river stood at a gauge reading of 52.1 feet when this photograph was taken on May 9, 1927. The picture shows people and livestock being moved onto barges, one of the improvised ways communities evacuated residents during the great flood that spring. The 1927 Mississippi flood inundated large parts of the lower valley and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and the Red Cross ran relief camps across the region. The image records that emergency work at the riverfront, where the water had made ordinary transport impossible.
| Created / published | 1927 May 9. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | In album: Flood photographs, Mississippi River and tributaries, high water 1927. 1st & 2d D. 44. Gage 52.1 ft. |
| Subjects | Disaster victims--Arkansas--Helena--1920-1930. Disasters--Arkansas--Helena--1920-1930. Floods--Arkansas--Helena--1920-1930. Barges--Arkansas--Helena--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,301 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-201564 |
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