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<p>Flood in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, 1871.
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View shows Canal Street at Claiborne, after the breech of the Hagan Avenue Levee protecting the city from Lake Pontchartrain while the lake was swollen from the Bonnet Carree Crevasse.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alfred_Waud" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alfred Waud"><span title="American artist and illustrator (1828-1891)">Alfred Waud</span></a>
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From <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www-sal.cs.uiuc.edu/~friedman/canal/Pic048.htm">[1]</a>.