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© Margaret Bourke-White, 1937, Louisville, Kentucky, Great Ohio River Flood

Bourke-White’s classic Great Depression photograph was originally only one of many images she made while covering a far more particular, localized catastrophe: namely the devastating Ohio River flood of 1937, which claimed close to 400 lives and left roughly one million people homeless across five states in the winter of that terrible year. (+)

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