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Damaged plantation homes after Civil War, barren land, and African American family migration
Activities around the Mississippi river in the United States in the early 1900s, in areas still affected by the Civil War. Text of General Robert E. Lee's announcement about surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865. Image of flames and fire burning a town or city. United States Civil War aftermath in the South. Scenes of several different empty and burned down plantation homes in the southern United States. View of the barren land and effects of erosion. Poor African American family with many things in a horse drawn wagon, walking on foot during migration to a new area of the United States in the north or west. View of the Mississippi River as seen from a moving boat at water level.
Trees are cut by wood saw,logs piled on ground and carried by the Mississippi river in the United States
The lumbering activity around the Mississippi river in the United States. View of the mountains covered with pines. A mark of an axe on the tree trunk. A tree being cut. Tree falls on ground. A wood saw used to cut trees. Logs in a flume and floating in the Mississippi river. Several views of the pile of logs on ground. Explosives being used to break up log jams. Logs being cut into boards in a saw mill.
The processing and transportation of iron and coal along the Mississippi river on steamboats in the United States
The activities around the Mississippi river in the United States. Smoke from steel mills and factories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wheeling, West Virginia. A crane lifts the iron ore. A crane lifts coal. View of factories spewing smoke and ash. Hot, molten iron being poured, with flames and sparks shooting outward as it is tipped to pour. Cotton bales on a conveyor. Making of cotton thread. Workers work on cotton bales. The cotton bales being loaded onto barges and a steamship. The steamboat in the Mississippi river travels to various places. Brief scenes of various known city views including St Paul and Minneapolis Minnesota; Davenport Iowa; Moline Illinois; Cincinnati; St. Louis; Omaha; Kansas City; New Orleans.
Water level increases causing a flood in the Mississippi river in the United States
The causes of flood in the Mississippi river in the United States. View of mountains. Views of the trees cut to build houses. Ice on a tree bark. Water flowing down the mountains. The increase in the flow of water on mountains in the passing years. A flooded river. View of the houses submerged in water due to floods in the Mississippi river. Water in the river gushing from under the bridge.
People being evacuated and taken to the relief camps during a flood in the Mississippi river in the United States
The causes and effects of flood in the Mississippi river in the United States. A man walks on the river bank carrying a lamp. Man in a boat. Man checks the water level. The board shows the water level rising. Patrol boats in the river. Men put sand bags on river embankment. People on the platform. A railroad train arrives. The men from navy,engineers and many more put sand bags to stop river water from entering the valley. Navy men on patrol boats. Submerged houses in the river. People being rescued in boats. People walk towards the railroad. Luggage kept on ground. A car pulls a cart. People vacate the place in a cart. People move in front of the relief tents. Food being served to the people at a relief camp. A woman feeds a child. View of the houses submerged in water.
Damaged property and activities in a home reflecting poverty, after a flood in Mississippi River in the United States
The effects of flood in the Mississippi river in the southern United States during the Great Depression. Damaged houses and property caused by the flood water. Top soil being washed away by the flood. Huge mounds of dirt moved and misplaced by flood. The damaged houses and shacks, and poor residents. Farmers and workers in the south hand pick cotton from a field. A child in front of a cotton stack in a house. A person on the cotton stack. A young boy sits on the ground and plays with cans. Inside view of a kitchen area in a simple rural house. Hand of a woman cutting vegetable. A woman holding an infant child as she works in a kitchen. Members of a family in the kitchen. Group of boys playing on the floor while an older boy brings in wood for the stove fire. Children dine at a table. Group of children getting ready for bed, sleeping in close quarters. A woman helps the children get ready to sleep. View of the Mississippi River.
