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New levee section being built, Star Landing, DeSoto County, Mississippi. 1908.

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Date Taken
1908

Summary

Album caption: Yazoo Delta, Miss. Levee, new section 1/5 mile long at Star Landing. This section being built because old levee is being rapidly encroached upon by the Mississippi River. Estimated old levee will be in river in about two years. Picture by Van H. Manning, 1908. Handwritten notes on album caption: Tallahatchie Drainage District, Lake Cormorant quad., DeSoto County. No index card. Note on photogrpah: Negative destroyed by authority of administrative geologist.

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Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Manning, Van H.

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