Where the Levees Broke and Why
Subject
Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to Gulf of Mexico; 1927 Flood; levee; New Madrid Break, Doreno Break, White Hall Break, Laconia Break, Three Pendleton Breaks, Greenville Break, Cabin Teele Break, St. Joseph Break, Four Glasscock Breaks, Bayou de Glaises Breaks, McCrea Break, Melville Break, Poydras Cut, Junior Break
Date
1927 c.
Mapmaker
[Kemper, J. P. ?]
Place of Publication
[New Orleans, La. ?]
Accession Number
T0055.1997.0185
Condition
Fair. Some foxing, staining, pencil and ink marks.
Curatorial Notes
See also T0055.1997.0198-199; printed version of this map, untitled, located T0055. 1997.0228.
Notes
Includes note concerning estimated of the volume of water, in cubic feet per second, entering the Mississippi River below Cairo, Illinois on April 20, 1927, before the levees began to break thereby "causing the inundation of about 20,000 square miles of the alluvial plain through the crevasses here shown."
Media Type
manuscript on blue drafting cl
Size
9 1/2 x 4
Storage
c05d08