Christmas wishes from the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans
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New Orleans after Katrina: Odoriferous defunct refrigerator on curb has graffitti critical of George W. Bush
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1838 New Basin Canal lighthouse still standing after Katrina... barely. It collapsed days after I took this photo.
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"New Orleans Is For Lovers"
Couple in protective gear embrace while taking a break from salvaging possessions from their formerly flooded, now mold infested, home.
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"That Just Ain't Right"
House atop Ford F-150, Lower 9th Ward.
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"Katrina bit this house":House in Lake St. Catherine, Louisiana was built raised high to avoid occasional great hurricane floods, but Katrina's terrible storm surge was higher still.
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"After the levee breach": Smashed New Orleans house with refrigerator on roof and child's tricycle in yard
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"Unhabitable". Doorway in formerly flooded Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans
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Door hangs from wire in flood devastated Lower 9th Ward residential neighborhood
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Figure from 1930s "Fountain of the Winds" by Enrique Alferez
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New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2006: Costumed revelers watching the Rex parade
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New Orleans scene after Hurricane Katrina: "Cyclone Fence"
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Boat beached atop shopping cart on median of formerly flooded portion of Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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Woman with bobbed hair and finger waves, c. 1928. That's my grandmother, BTW.
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Three United States tourist women, Moroccan tour guide and two camel handlers (at either end), with camel. Near Tangier, Morocco, September, 1965. That's my grandma in the cat-eye glasses.
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Brass band musicians and confetti, at Twelfth Night celebrations in New Orleans marking the start of the Carnival season. 6 January, 2003.
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New Orleans Carnival, 2005: Golf cart floats with effigy heads of neighborhood characters, "Krewe of OAK" neighborhood parade.
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New Orleans Carnival, 2005: A member of the "Bearded Oysters" dance troupe, "Krewe of OAK" neighborhood parade.
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