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Image: 1927 Mississippi Flood Blowing Levee

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Description: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, dynamiting through the levee to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, 14 miles below New Orleans. The crevasse was created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans.
Title: 1927 Mississippi Flood Blowing Levee
Credit: wea00739, Historic NWS Collection, [1]
Author: Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS
Permission: This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties.
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License: Public domain
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