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Katrina's Houses I

2005

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A color photograph of flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. At center is a car, a four door sedan with its trunk open, abandoned in water up to the door handles. In the background are houses with water up to their front doors. At bottom center, under the image in black marker, is [A/P]. The photograph is signed and dated at bottom right, under the image in black marker. There are no marks on the back.

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Catalog reference: 2016.133.2

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