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Diagram Showing the Inundated District, Sauvé’s Crevasse

Map of New Orleans showing the Mississippi River crevasse at lower left and portions of the city inundated by the 1849 flood in darker shading.

Diagram Showing the Inundated District, Sauvé’s Crevasse

Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection

Diagram Showing the Inundated District, Sauvé’s Crevasse. Ludwig von Reizenstein, delineator

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Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection
Date 1886
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