Great Flood of 1927. A Coast Guard boat stacked with supplies in the right mid-ground. Two men, one on the boat, are exchanging a bag of sugar. Refugees under a shack, with dogs, are in the background.
A Coast Guard boat makes its way down the submerged Main Street of Melville, Louisiana, during the 1927 Mississippi River flood. The Able Hotel, Able's Café, a drugstore, a Pan Am-related business, and two paddlers in canoes are in the background.