Bibframe Instance

Title

Barbecue restaurant sign in Cairo (pronounced CARE-o), Illinois, a small city at the southern tip of the state, wedged between Kentucky and Missouri. Once a booming river town of 15,000 population in the early 20th Century, Cairo declined into what some call a ghost town one-fifth the population a century later following several racially tinged riots and severe flooding, including one in 2011 in which the entire city was evacuted

Genre Form

Pictures (LCGFT)

Identified By

Lccn: 2020721593

Color Content

color

Note

Physical details: digital, tiff file, color. Applies To: Applies To: all

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Extent

1 photograph

Provision Activity