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Canal Street Flooding in New Orleans photo - picture in Montz, St.-John-the-Baptist Parish, Louisiana
Flood in New Orleans, 1871. View shows Canal Street at Claiborne, after the breech of the Hagan Avenue Levee protecting the city from Lake Pontchartrain while the lake was swollen from the Bonnet Carree Crevasse. Engraving illustration by Alfred R. Waud & Samuel S. Kilburn, originally published in Every Saturday, July 8, 1871. |
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| Tags: illustrations, floods, engravings |
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| See the Bonnet Carre Crevasse Historical Marker page.
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| Photo by Bill Lawson |
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Last updated: Jan 10 2021 19:40:41 |
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Latitude & Longitude:
30° 1' 51.2148",
-90° 25' 40.1412"
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