View of "Natchez under the hill" at Natchez Miss. In the old steamboat days this section was the business part of the town. Today what is left of it is a slum inhabited by poverty-stricken Negroes.

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View of "Natchez under the hill" at Natchez Miss. In the old steamboat days this section was the business part of the town. Today what is left of it is a slum inhabited by poverty-stricken Negroes.

Artist Todd Webb (American, 1905–2000)

Title View of "Natchez under the hill" at Natchez Miss. In the old steamboat days this section was the business part of the town. Today what is left of it is a slum inhabited by poverty-stricken Negroes.

Date April 1947

Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 6 9/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16.7 × 23.9 cm)

Credit Line Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 79.200.XX.9.10

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Publisher Standard Oil Company, New Jersey

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