Sujet

Inundations in the United States: Front-Street, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Inundations in the United States: Front-Street, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1874. 'The swelling and overflow of the Cumberland river, a month ago, presented an extraordinary spectacle...We are indebted to Dr. D. F. Wright, of that town, and to his neighbour, Mr. M'Cormac, the skilful photographer, for the four views shown in our Engravings...[This one represents] Front-street, Clarkesville - or, rather, the place where Front-street ought to be. This row of buildings, forlorn and shabby as it looks, consists of the warehouses through which the largest tobacco trade in the Western States is transacted. There is no tobacco, however, in them now. It has all been removed to more recently built warehouses, in the upper part of the town, for fear of the flood. At low water these warehouses stand on a broad quay, from which a broader slope, forty or fifty yards in width, reaches down to the river, with which the warehouses communicate by drays'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A33_062

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Droits gérés

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5,9Mo (568,4Ko) / 14,9cm x 9,9cm / 1764 x 1169 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather river water building buildings destruction house houses town arts country art warehouse warehouses British geography Tennessee location disaster century flooded Britain catastrophe tobacco newspapers press destructive print concept flood floods B&W flooding bad weather engraved engraving United States of America Cumberland River 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century America USA The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper landscape united states Unknown water level 19th-century Clarksville The Illustrated London News