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An aerial view shows the Cache River overflow with Mermet right centerduring the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows the Cache River overflow taken east of Mermet when looking east during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows the Cache River overflow looking east, with Renshaw at left center during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An easterly aerial view shows the Cache River overflow with Renshaw at lower left during the 1937 Ohio River Flood

An aerial view shows the Cache River overflow looking east with Brownfield at the lower left during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

A northeasterly aerial view shows the Cache River overflow with Ullin at left center during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows Ullin looking northeast during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows Karnak when looking east in very hazy conditions during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows Golconda Gap looking southeast during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows Golconda Gap looking east during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

Three unidentified men pose on Route 146 facing east from Craig Hill surrounded by flood water.

View of flooding and damage caused to the old shaft of the Sahara Number Three Mine in Harrisburg.

View of the high water mark on the bank columns and flood damage in Shawneetown.

A view of buildings damaged and destroyed by flooding in Shawneetown, east along the south levee.

A boarded up building sits along a washed out road among flood damage in Shawneetown.

Visiting Chicago for the dedication of the Outer Drive Bridge, President Roosevelt used the opportunity to deliver a speech on foreign policy. Known as the "Quarantine Speech," he called on all peace loving nations to condemn and isolate the…

Franklin D. Roosevelt waves to the crowd as his motorcade passes by. Part of the day long celebration of the dedication of Chicago's Outer Drive Bridge, this image from the motorcade shows Roosevelt seated next to a Catholic priest. Roosevelt, the…

Seated in the rear of a limousine, President Franklin Roosevelt (left), Illinois Governor Henry Horner (center), Chicago Mayor Edward Kelly (right rear), and Illinois U.S. Senator William H. Dieterich (front right) ride together on the day of the…

An unknown woman twirls a baton before a marching band.

Crowds look on as the presidential motorcade for Outer Drive Bridge dedication proceeds along Michigan Avenue, passing by one the Art Institute of Chicago's famous lion statues.

The presidential motorcade for Chicago's Outer Bridge dedication passes by crowds of onlookers and numerous Chicago policemen.

Soldiers march past the presidential review stand for the dedication of Chicago's Outer Drive Bridge.

Although construction began in 1929, the opening of the Outer Drive Bridge in Chicago did not occur until 1937, when President Franklin Roosevelt visited the city to dedicate the bridge. The Public Works Administration, one of Roosevelt's many New…

Governor Henry Horner (front row, second from left), Illinois U.S. Senator William H. Dieterich (front row, third from left), Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes (front row, fourth from left), and other dignitaries on the reviewing stand at the…

Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly (1933-1947) speaks at the dedication of the Outer Drive Bridge, while Henry Horner (seated on right) listens. Kelly rose in Chicago politics as the chief engineer of the Chicago Sanitary District in the 1920s. As mayor,…