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Source Collection
Norris C. Blackburn papers, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0455.001_004.003
Description
Cotton bales, belonging to the Union Compress & Warehouse Company, being stored on the football field at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College). During the 1937 Mississippi River flood many warehouses along the river front were forced to move their products elsewhere to protect them from the rising flood water.
Date Created
2022
Date
1937
Recommended Citation
"Cotton bales at Southwestern campus, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937" (2022). Images. 6.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-blackburnnc1/6
Keywords
Floods—Tennessee—Memphis--Photographs., Southwestern at Memphis, Cotton trade--Tennessee--Memphis.
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