Maps Show Why New Orleans Is Safe From Present Flood
Sub-Title
Weather Bureau, United States Engineers Chart Capacity Of Lower River Resevoirs
Verso-Title
Image of Bonnet Carre Spillway; Article titled, "Floods and Flood Fears Analyzed."
Subject
Two diagrams depicting "what will happen to the Ohio flood en route to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico." Flood control; Mississippi River low and high water levels from Cairo, Ill. to Gulf of Mexico; Yazoo Basin, cut-offs, Tensas Basin; Atchafalaya Basin; Bonnett Carre Spillway; Bohemia Spillway; levees; resevoirs
Date
1937 Jan 31
Mapmaker
Item Tribune Art Department
Publisher
Sunday Item Tribune newspaper
Place of Publication
New Orleans, La.
Accession Number
1996.071.295.03
Condition
Fair. Acidified; weak along fold lines; tears in margin; needs conservation
Curatorial Notes
From the J. Aron Collection
Insets
[Map of Mississippi Rivir from Arkansas City, Ark., to Gulf of Mexico] and [Chart Delineating Mississippi River Low and High Water Levels from Cairo, Ill. to Gulf of Mexico]
Media Type
newsprint
Size
21 1/2 x 17 1/4
Storage
c06d08