Image: NewOrleansEast1972

Description: New Orleans, 1972. Shows automobile passing sign "This Is New Orleans East", promoting new subdivision being developed to east of the city. Billboard promoting the New Orleans East "New Town" development, 1972. Note the darker-toned 'Current Development' portion, encompassing present-day Village de L'Est and Oak Island, as well as Venetian Isles and a sliver of Irish Bayou. The light-toned portion is now mostly Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge.
Title: NewOrleansEast1972
Credit: Photograph by John Messina for Series: DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, compiled 1972 - 1977   This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 544287. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. English | Español | Français | Italiano | Македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | 中文（简体） | 中文（繁體） | +/−
Author: John Messina
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