The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 A crevasse in the levee at Junior, Louisiana, on April 23, 1927 Caused by an out-of-control steamship striking the levee From: "The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin", Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927 Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29

Image ID: wea00744, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection
Photographer: Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS


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