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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: The Bessie Levee augmented with sand bags during the 1937 flood near Tiptonville, Tennessee]
1937 · Tiptonville, Tennessee, United States
by Walker Evans
A sandbag-lined levee stretches into a flooded landscape with bare trees on both sides.
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American vernacular, 1935–38 — Library of Congress
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection
FSA/OWI photographs are works of the U.S. federal government in the public domain
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