Browse images of floods

Interior of a farmhouse near Ridgeley, Tennessee, after the 1937 flood waters had subsided. 1937 Feb.

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Interior of a farmhouse near Ridgeley, Tennessee, after the 1937 flood waters had subsided. 1937 Feb.

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Interior of a farmhouse near Ridgeley, Tennessee, after the 1937 flood waters had subsided. 1937 Feb.

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Tennessee farmhouse near Ridgeley after flood had subsided. 1937 Feb.

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Farmyard covered with flood waters near Ridgeley, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Visiting day in an improvised hospital for flood refugees at Sikeston, Missouri. 1937 Feb.

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Mother and child, flood refugees in a schoolhouse at Sikeston, Missouri. 1937 Feb.

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Exhausted flood refugee resting, Sikeston, Missouri. 1937 Feb.

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Refugees from the flood in a schoolhouse at Sikeston, Missouri. 1937 Feb.

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Flooded farm near New Madrid, Missouri. 1937 Feb.

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Flooded farm near New Madrid, Missouri. 1937 Feb.

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Houseboat washed high and dry amid debris. Maunie, Illinois. 1937 Feb.

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Damage to state highway and soil by flood. Near Hazleton, Indiana. 1937 Feb.

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An organ deposited by the flood on a farm near Mount Vernon, Indiana. 1937 Feb.

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State highway flooded by the White River. Near Hazleton, Indiana. 1937 Feb.

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Section of camp for Negro flood refugees set up in Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Household goods of a family moving into the camp for flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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A flooded street in North Memphis, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Flood in North Memphis, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Flood in North Memphis, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Memphis houses half submerged by the flood. Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Farmland submerged by the 1937 flood at Bessie Levee near Tiptonville, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Submerged farmland at Bessie Levee near Tiptonville, Tennessee, during the 1937 flood. 1937 Feb.

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Submerged farmland at Bessie Levee near Tiptonville, Tennessee, during the 1937 flood. 1937 Feb.

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After the flood waters receded from a sharecropper's house in Ridgely, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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After the flood waters receded from a sharecropper's house in Ridgely, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Furniture brought by colored flood refugees to the camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Flood refugee camp for Negroes from the bottom lands. Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Food line in flood refugee camp for Negroes from the bottom lands. Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Tents in the flood refugee camp for Negroes from the bottom lands. Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Tents in the flood refugee camp for Negroes from the bottom land at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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A street of tents in the camp for flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Three refugees from the 1937 flood in their tent of the camp in Marianna, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Negro flood refugees lined up and waiting for food in Forrest City, Arkansas, camp. 1937 Feb.

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Mess line at the camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Negro refugees from the flood of February 1937 in camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Lined up and waiting for a meal in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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View taken from train en route to Forrest City, Arkansas from Memphis, Tennessee during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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View taken from train en route to Forrest City, Arkansas from Memphis, Tennessee during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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View taken from train en route to Forrest City, Arkansas from Memphis, Tennessee during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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View taken from train en route to Forrest City, Arkansas from Memphis, Tennessee during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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View taken from train en route to Forrest City, Arkansas from Memphis, Tennessee during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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View taken from train en route to Forrest City, Arkansas from Memphis, Tennessee during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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View taken from train en route to Forrest City, Arkansas from Memphis, Tennessee during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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View taken from train en route to Forrest City, Arkansas from Memphis, Tennessee during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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Interior of cotton compress at Forrest City, Arkansas where sick Negro refugees from flood of 1937 are housed. 1937 Feb.

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Interior of cotton compress where sick Negro flood refugees are housed during the flood, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Interior of cotton compress at Forrest City, Arkansas where sick Negro flood refugees are housed. 1937 Feb.

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Interior of cotton compress at Forrest City, Arkansas where sick Negro flood refugees are housed. 1937 Feb.

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Interior of cotton compress at Forrest City, Arkansas where sick Negro flood refugees are housed. 1937 Feb.

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Household goods and personal effects rescued from the path of the flood and brought to the camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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A Negro flood refugee family who, with their rescued household goods have moved into the camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Negro flood refugee washing clothes in the camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Negro flood refugees wearing identification tags after registering in the camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Poultry saved from the flood in the camp of Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Negro flood refugees wearing identification tags after registration in the concentration camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Awaiting registration in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Awaiting registration in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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A family of flood refugees and their salvaged household goods in the camp at Forrest City. 1937 Feb.

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Negro refugees from the flood of 1937 in camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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A street of tents in the camp for flood refugees of Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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A street of tents in the camp for flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Young flood refugee in the camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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View in Memphis, Tennessee during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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Billboard in Memphis during the flood, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Workers on the levee during the flood, Memphis, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Memphis, Tennessee, during the flood. 1937 Feb.

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A boy at mealtime in the camp for white refugees from the flood, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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An old lady at mealtime in the camp for white refugees from the flood of 1937, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Man at work in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Woman at mealtime in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Small boy at mealtime in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Woman at mealtime in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Part of the mess line in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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A boy refugee from the flood, 1937, camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Line of flood refugees at mealtime in camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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White refugee from the flood in camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Part of the mess line at mealtime in camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Part of the mess line at mealtime, in camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Families move out as rising waters threaten their homes, Ridgeley, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Supper at Marianna, Arkansas flood refugee camp. 1937 Feb.

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Family on the move during the flood of 1937, Ridgeley, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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A family flooded out built themselves this ark, Marianna, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Typhoid inoculation at Marianna, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Flood refugees lined up and waiting for food at Marianna, Arkansas, refugee camp. 1937 Feb.

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Warning sign in Smithland, Kentucky. 1937 Feb.

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Interior of house demolished by flood of 1937, Smithland, Kentucky. 1937 Feb.

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Flooded farmland near Ridgeley, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Negroes in the lineup for food at meal time in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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The Bessie Levee augmented with sand bags during the 1937 flood near Tiptonville, Tennessee. 1937 Feb.

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Negroes in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Negroes in the lineup for food at the flood refugee camp, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Refugees lined up at meal time in the camp for white flood refugees in Forest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Negro with a fur cap, a flood refugee in the camp at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Negroes in the lineup for food at meal time at the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Negroes at mealtime in the flood refugee camp, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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The kitchen in the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Vaccination in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Marianna, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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Sign posted in Marianna, Arkansas during the 1937 flood. 1937 Feb.

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Negroes in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. 1937 Feb.

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