Gelatin silver print of two 1927 Mississippi River flood images
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Gelatin silver print of two 1927 Mississippi River flood images

Illinois Central Railroad, American, founded 1851 · 1927

silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

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.

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