Panther Burn, Miss. 4-30-27

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Two gelatin silver prints of the 1927 flooding of the Mississippi River. The photos are unmounted and unattached, but together create a picture of a set of railroad tracks.

Catalog date

April 30, 1927

Recorded places

Panther Burn, Sharkey County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; American South; Communities; Great Migration; Photography; U.S. History, 1919-1933

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