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Source Collection
Twentieth century photograph collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0462.012_002.002
Description
View looking south along the Wolf River, Memphis, Tennessee, of the sandbags erected to protect industrial and residential areas near N. Front Street from the flooding of the Mississippi River, February 9, 1937. The American Snuff Company plant is at left.
Date Created
2021
Date
1937 February 9
Recommended Citation
"Mississippi River flooding, Memphis, 1937" (2021). Other images. 279.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-20thcenturyphoto3/279
Keywords
Floods--Mississippi River.
