S S President at Lake Providence, Louisiana 1940
An excursion steamer which goes up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Saint Louis every summer. It stops along the way at various towns and cities, takes passengers on a four hour "moonlite" ride, has dance orchestra, elaborate ballroom and various kinds of entertainment and amusements. Here it is tied up at Lake Providence, Louisiana before its evening trip
- Date
- 1940
- Photographer / author
- Marion Post Wolcott
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 8,770 × 7,181 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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"S S President at Lake Providence, Louisiana 1940" (1940). Marion Post Wolcott, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_S_President_at_Lake_Providence,_Louisiana_1940.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 124525.
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