- 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: 20 x 25 1/2 in. (50.8 x 64.8 cm)
- Description
- 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: Building Boats Along Y. & M. Y. April 1927; at top right: Lake View 4-27-27; at bottom left: Lake View 4-27-27; at bottom right: Lake View, Miss. 4-24-27.
- Place captured
- Lake View, DeSoto County, Mississippi, 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
- 2011.13.18
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 1927 Illinois Central Railroad
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.