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
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