Sep 28, 2018
A `Crevasse’ on the Mississippi | Mark Twain’s Mississippi | NIU Digital Library
This image, found in William Cullen Bryant’s Picturesque America (1872) is another example of the work of Alfred R. Waud. In depicts a breach, or crevasse, in a levee bordering the Mississippi River, presumably during a time of flood or high water.
Posted by Drew VandeCreek, Director of Digital Scholarship, Northern Illinois University Libraries