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Source Collection
Twentieth century photograph collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0462.01_01.002
Description
Workers on a barge using rocks to sink a willow mat into the Mississippi River at Mellwood Bend, Arkansas, in 1939. Men on the dock are maintaining the tow ropes and the barge is being pulled by the stern-wheeler "Chisca".
Date Created
6-29-2021
Date
1939
Recommended Citation
"Reclamation work on the Mississippi River, 1939" (2021). Other images. 97.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-20thcenturyphoto3/97
Keywords
United States--Mississippi River--Reclamation.
