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Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

April 30, 1927

Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

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

A gelatin silver print of the 1927 flooding of the Mississippi River. This is a set of four images on one sheet of paper, itself pasted onto a scrapbook page. At top left: Boyer Service Station; at top right: two-story wood frame house; at bottom left: two-story building with four columns; at bottom right: house with two cars flooded.

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Catalog reference: 2011.13.3

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