File:CanalClaiborne1871Flood.jpg

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Alfred Waud  (1828–1891)  wikidata:Q2226717
 
Alfred Waud
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Alfred Rudolph Waud
Description American artist, illustrator and photographer
Date of birth/death 2 October 1828 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1891 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Marietta
Work period American Civil War
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Flood in New Orleans, 1871.

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.
Date originally published in "Every Saturday", July 8, 1871.
Medium engraving illustration by Alfred R. Waud & Samuel S. Kilburn
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