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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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a line of two-story brick rowhouses in a state of disrepair. A light-skinned young woman and toddler peer out from the nearest doorway; on the balcony above her, a dark-skinned woman faces away from the camera. On a porch in the middleground sit two dark-skinned men facing one another.
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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. | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.200.XX.9.10