EditorialFILE PHOTO: Queen Margrethe, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary participate in the New Year's levee for diplomacy at Christiansborg Palace, in Copenhagen
EditorialAn inmate crew joins Cal Fire to plug a hole in a levee near Sola Farms, in Tipton, Calif., March 23, 2023. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialA large levee surrounds a camp for internally displaced people, protecting it from floodaters, in Bentiu, South Sudan on Jan. 31, 2023. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialForeign levee in the Library at Buckingham Palace. Foreign dignitaries in military uniform in a large room with windows onto a garden. Steel engraving by Henry Melville after an illustration by Gilbert from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremoni...
EditorialThe Rake's Levee (A Rake's Progress) 1735 A levee is a reception held by a monarch or other high-ranking person on arising from bed. Tom is spending his inheritance on suppliers of expensive (and in particular unnecessary) services who try to en...
EditorialThe Bengal Levee, showing Lord Cornwallis (Governor General of Bengal) in a crowd of sycophants. Coloured etching after an original drawing made on the spot. London, 1792. Shelfmark: P1001.
EditorialA truck traverses a levee amid the ponds where brine is processed to extract lithium and other minerals, at the Chaerhan Salt Lake in China?s Qinghai province, Sept. 9, 2021. (Qilai Shen/The New York Times)
EditorialThe “burrito levee”, a 13-foot-high surge protector that was breached by Hurricane Ida in Grand Isle, La., Sept. 2, 2021. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialReggie Dupre, executive director of the Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District, in Dulac, La., on Sept. 2, 2021. (Johnny Milano/The New York Times)
EditorialHigh winds kick up sand on a levee in Grand Isle, La., on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, as Hurricane Ida approaches Louisiana’s coastline. (Emily Kask/The New York Times)
EditorialLevee at Rapids City, Illinois. Dated: 1891. Dimensions: image: 10 5/16 x 13 in. (26.2 x 33 cm) sheet: 36.7 x 43.7 cm (14 7/16 x 17 3/16 in.). Medium: cyanotype.
EditorialWater flows through a failed levee built just before a large flood along the Missouri River in Craig, Mo.,on March 27, 2019. (Tim Gruber/The New York Times)