- Created by
- Unidentified
- Commissioned by
- Illinois Central Railroad, American, founded 1851
- Date
- May 3, 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 photo depicts men in rail cars with stacks of sand bags as they prepare to fortify the walls holding back the Mississippi floodwater.
- Place captured
- Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- 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
- 2011.13.58
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 1927 Illinois Central Railroad
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




