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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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