Photograph of the side of train #805 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Written below the image are "[sic] Shreveport, La. July 1952." and "H.K.Vollrath."

Photograph of train #805 in Shreveport, Louisiana. There is a train visible behind the engine. Below the image are written "Shreveport, La. July 12 1949" and "R.H.Carlson."

Photograph of train #805 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Written underneath are "Shreveport, La. July 21st 1949" and "Charles E. Winters."

Photograph of T&P train #808 in Shreveport, Louisiana. There is a large plume of black smoke rising from the engine and a house visible in the background. Written below the image are "Shreveport, La. July 1951 (Pipe for the 'Big Inch')" and "H. K. Vollrath."

Photograph of a train engine and attached car on railroad tracks, viewed from the side. "636" and "Texas & Pacific" are visible on the side. Another train sits on the tracks just behind. Handwritten text below the image says, "Shreveport, LA. July 1949."

Photograph of R. T. Douglas and his field. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Pig weeds grow on fertile land where I planted corn twice this year,” says R. T. Douglas. “My fist planting washed out and the second planting had just started growing when this field was flooded a second time, I’ve got about 75 acres on which there will be a total crop loss this year. If my new drainage system had been completed in time I expect I’d have made 40 bushels of corner per acre here from the first planting.”