Keywords: LittleWoodsCamps1972.jpg New Orleans LITTLE WOODS AREA 07/1972 Shows the houses on piers in the shallows of Lake Pontchartrain common in the early 20th century The majority in New Orleans were destroyed in the 1920s and 1930s with the lakefront land reclamation and levee project; the exception being the collection here at Little Woods which survived for generations more Many of these were destroyed in Hurricane Georges in 1998; the rest in Hurricane Katrina in 2005 Photograph by John Messina for Series DOCUMERICA The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern compiled 1972 - 1977 NARA-image 544302 Converted from gif to jpg and border cropped before upload 1972-07 John Messina No restrictions PD-USGov 1972 in New Orleans Little Woods New Orleans Stilt houses in Louisiana DOCUMERICA John Messina - DOCUMERICA |