Welcome to a photographic odyssey that begins as we join a most unusual couple on a journey down the Mississippi River in a floating portrait studio. The incredible family story and professional work of Hugo and Gayne Preller spanned more than half a century, from 1895 to 1950. Hugo Preller’s quest to document the untrammeled river Delta, combined with his wife’s gift of putting people at ease before a lens, created a visual history that has earned its reputation as “the Delta’s newest cultural treasure.”

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