Print, Engraved - "The Mississippi Floods"

 
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Print, Engraved - "The Mississippi Floods"
Print, Engraved - "The Mississippi Floods"
Print, Engraved - "The Mississippi Floods"
Print, Engraved - "The Mississippi Floods"

Print, Engraved - "The Mississippi Floods"

Object number1991.004.05
DateMarch 25, 1882
Mediumpaper and ink
Dimensions23 x 16 in. (58.4 x 40.6 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
DescriptionEngraved print from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper entitled: "The Mississippi Floods - Scenes Among the Sufferers and Incidents of the Movement for their Relief"

1. Dealing out government rations to refugee sufferers.
2. Innundation of Tensas Parish, Louisiana after the break of the levee at Hard Times.
3. Escape of Mr. Monroe Rown of Cypress Bend, Arkansas.
Status
Not on view