Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995

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Illustration Credits Unless otherwise indicated, all illustrations are from the New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 2 Kermit L Hebert, The Flood Control Capabilities of the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway, p. 2. 20 Malcolm L. Comeaux, Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations, Geoscience and Man, 2 (Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications, 1972: p. 12. Reprinted with permission of Geoscience Publications,Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, LA 70803. 25 The Historic New Orleans Collection. 27 Malcolm L. Comeaux, Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations, Geoscience and Man, 2 (Baton Rouge:Geoscience Publications,1972):p.25.Reprinted with permission of Geoscience Publications,Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, LA 70803. 28 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 29 Record Group 77, Cartographic Division, National Archives and Records Administration. 31 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 38 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,based on a map in the possession of the Louisiana State Museum. 43, 50, 51 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 53 The Historic New Orleans Collection. 54 Record Group 77,Cartographic Division,CivilWar Map File, National Archives and Records Administration. 55 The Historic New Orleans Collection. 61, 63 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 68 The Historic New Orleans Collection. 72 Record Group 77, Cartographic Division, National Archives and Records Administration. 74 The Historic New Orleans Collection 75, 79, 80 Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, 1888, part IV. 82 Adapted from D. O. Elliott, The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation, III:plate X. 106, 107 Lyle Saxon, Father Mississippi, facing pp. 332 and 384, respectively. 109 D.O.Elliott,The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation, III: plate XXXVII. 110 Lyle Saxon, Father Mississippi, facing p. 369. 112 D.O.Elliott,The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation, III: plate LXX. 113, 122, 138 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 155 Sherwood M. Gagliano and Johannes L. van Beek, Environmental Base and Management Study—Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, pp. 15–17, 19. Maps compiled by Robert T. Wilson, Wetlands Project, Department of Geography, Louisiana State University. 160 E. F. Salisbury, “Influence of Diversion on the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers,” Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 102 (1937): 87, figure 2. 164 Senate Historical Office. 175 John Holmes Overton Papers, Northwestern State University of Louisiana. 177 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 180 U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Flood Control, Flood-ControlWorks in the AlluvialValley of the Mississippi River, 74th Cong., 1st sess., 12 February 1935, Com. Doc. 1. 199 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 202 Author’s collection. 208 Brigadier General P.A.Feringa and CharlesW.Schweizer (preparers), One Hundred Years Improvement on the Lower Mississippi River. 210 Graphic based on Latimer and Schweizer,TheAtchafalaya River Study, II, plate 17. 220 Bela Kornitzer, American Fathers and Sons, p. 43. Photograph furnished by Connie Mutel, The University of Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research. 221 St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota. 231 Norman Moore,Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River and Tributaries, p. 25, figure 7. 237 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 239 Waterways Experiment Station,U.S.Army Corps of Engineers . 252 Sherwood M. Gagliano and Johannes L. van Beek, Environmental Base and Management Study—Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, p 25. 269 B. E. M. Skerrett III. 275 Oliver Houck. 277, 311 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 316 U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service , Division of Ecological Services,“Atchafalaya Basin Reports:Avoca Island Levee Extension andWater Management & Land Use Controls,” p. 60, figure 10. 329 © 2003 The Times-Picayune Publishing Co. All rights reserved.Used with permission of the New OrleansTimesPicayune . 330, 338 Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 342 Bobby M. Freyou, Public Lands Records Manager, State Land Office, State of Louisiana. ...