“How High’s the Water, Mama?” — 1908
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
A great panoramic photo by Clogenson, showing the old Commerce Street bridge partially submerged by the Trinity River (which is pretty dang high … and rising).
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Photograph by Henry Clogenson, from the collection of the Library of Congress; accessible here.
Previous Flashback Dallas posts on the Great Flood of 1908 can be found here and here. And a fantastic photo of what the Trinity looked like before it was straightened and moved is here.
And, really, you MUST hear Johnny Cash sing the pertinent “Five Feet High & Rising,” here.
Click picture for a REALLY big image.
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