
Jackson, Mississippi, March 1914
Photographer Albert Fred Daniel (yes, that is three first names) captured Capitol Street as it disappear underwater from the spilled banks of Town Creek, literally making the town a creek.
Oscar Lamb Sales took a huge hit, as well as the Heidelburg building movie house (ironically showing an epic about the Titanic), which reported its organ and all its seats total losses. The boardinghouse proprietor below tries to keep track of several of the boys who found wading in the cesspool an absolute delight.
Now that’s a big disaster in a little town, Kerbey.
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A movie house with an organ! They knew how to do movies in 1914.
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Much snazzy.
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What priceless pictures. Amazingly Jackson appears to have survived without FEMA.
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D’oh! You said it.
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Yikes! And celery tonic! I actually shuddered.
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LOL. I also would give that a hard pass.
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Awful situation !
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