Mrs. Roosevelt sees grandson married in ceremony at the Episcopal church of Saint Augustine-by-the-sea at Santa Monica, California. Widow of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she watches i...
Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.Photo is dated 1950.Muddy Mississippi River water streaming thru the Bonnet Carre Spillway Spring, 1950. John McDonogh proposed this river control more than a centur...
New Orleans - Aerial view of Bonnet Carre Spillway and its gates and levees. Back in 1816, John McDonogh was suggesting a spillway to relieve city of flood danger--and at Bonnet Carre, too!Photo is...
Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.Photo is dated 02/10/1950.New Orleans - General aerial view as Spillway opened...wall of water advances over grassy basin. The level of Mississippi floodwaters at Ne...
New Orleans - Thrice successfully operated Bonnet Carre Spillway is pictured as it poured Mississippi River waters into Lake Pontchartrain during 1950. The huge safety valve is opened by the Engine...
