“Columbus Understands an Appeal Like This” The Columbus Dispatch 5 May, 1927.
“Poor Business” The Commercial Appeal 10 June, 1927
“Relieve the Flood Sufferers, but the Cure Lies at the Other End” New York Tribune 27 Apr., 1927.
Carl Van Vechten, Portrait of Bessie Smith
Advertisement for Rogers June 1 Flood Benefit at the Saenger Theater, New Orleans in the Times Picayune 1 June, 1927: 10.
“The Slave Ship, 1927” The Crisis Feb. 1928.
Frances F. Palmer, “High Water in the Mississippi” (1868), Currier & Ives Lithograph, reprinted in Black and White in Herschel Brickell, “Again the Old Dragon Mississippi Fumes,” NYT 1 May, 1927: SM9.
John Steuart Curry, Hoover and the Flood (1940), Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
