Flash flood 1969 August

Flash flood 1969 August

Still Image


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Community Archive
A 4" x 4" color photo of Rosie Goldsborough's grandchildren delivering her an umbrella to the VITA Foods plant in Chestertown, Maryland during a flash flood. The children stand drenched and barefooted in a flooded stairwell. The young boy, in orange shorts and a white tank top, holds the black umbrella. A young girl in a yellow dress stands beside him holding a pair of shoes and raising her arm to her mouth. 1969

English
original photographs
Vita Foods Corporation, African American Children
Canneries, Factories, Floods, African American children, African American boys, African American girls, African American grandmothersMaryland--Chestertown, Maryland--Kent County Chestertown


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