Mississippi River, Columbus, Ky. – 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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Mississippi River, Columbus, Ky. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mississippi River, Columbus, Ky.
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Columbus, Kentucky, stands on high bluffs above the Mississippi, so this aerial view from April 20, 1927, shows a town looking down on floodwater spread across the lowlands below. The river stood at 56.4 feet on the Cairo gage that day. The print belongs to a group of flood photographs in an album covering the Mississippi and its tributaries during the high water of 1927, when aerial views helped officials track where the water had gone and which levees were holding. That flood was one of the largest disasters in the Mississippi Valley, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes across several states.
| Created / published | 1927 April 20. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Aerial photographs 1920-1930.Gelatin silver prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | In album (disbound): Flood photographs, Mississippi River and tributaries, high water 1927. 1st & 2d D. 4. Cairo gage 56.4 ft. |
| Subjects | Disasters--Kentucky--Columbus--1920-1930. Floods--Kentucky--Columbus--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128958 |
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