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Contents

Introduction
1Floods
2Floods and the photographic evidence of survival amidst tragedy
3Floods in Nantes, France (1843)
4The Great Sheffield Flood (11 March 1864)
5Johnstown Flood (1889)
Photographers
6Édouard Baldus: Inondations du Rhône à Lyon et Avignon (1856)
7J.N. Walton: View of Main St, Aurora, Ind. During the Flood. Feb 15th. 1883
8J. Landy: The Flood of 1884 - Cincinnati, Ohio
9Margaret Bourke-White: Ohio River Flood (1937)

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