Digital Snapshots

Dublin Core

Title

Katrina-Rogers Photographs, Item 48; September 19, 2005

Archival Description

"Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS. Monday, September 19, 2005. Looking northwest from Beach Boulevard toward Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church and St. Joseph's Academy."

Detailed Description

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Rogers (Jeff) Hurricane Katrina Photographs Collection (PI/2005.0024). Color photograph of a severely damaged road along the photo’s center from immediate foreground to background, and white, two-story building on the photo’s right-side. The road is broken up into a large number of pieces and scattered, there is a tree fallen onto the road with a beach and a body of water viewable in the photo’s left-side. A man in pants and a short-sleeved shirt is standing on the road and looking at the camera. There is a power line pole between the camera and building that is leaning away from the road. The building has no window panes or doors, and the tops of the arched doorways are painted blue. Painted on the building’s side, there is an orange “X” in a box and partially obscured words and numbers that read “EHICKS “[?]5665-[?][?]85 [?] BEACH.” There is a row of trees along the road in the background.

Creator

Rogers, Jeff

Date

2005-09-19

Location

Hancock County (Miss.)

Identifier

103596-01-photo

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives & History