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Gelatin silver print of two 1927 Mississippi River flood images
- Commissioned by
- Illinois Central Railroad, American, founded 1851
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 7 7/8 x 10 1/16 in. (20 x 25.5 cm)
- Description
- A gelatin silver print of the 1927 flooding of the Mississippi River. This is a set of two images on one sheet of paper, itself pasted onto a scrapbook page. At left: Temporary Trestle necessary to drive about 2 miles west of Delta Point; at right: Temporary Trestle just East of Mounds, Louisiana.
- Place captured
- Mound, Madison Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- American South
- Communities
- Great Migration
- Photography
- U.S. History, 1919-1933
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2011.13.10
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 1927 Illinois Central Railroad