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Several people walk through a tent city.

Works Progress Administration men build toilets for Tent City, 4 miles west of Shawneetown.

A street view shows flood damage in the north section of Mound City looking south.

Works Progress Administration men fill and tamp the south levee gap that was cut to drain flood water from Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men repair the sewer on 27th Street and Commercial Street where one of major sand boils wrecked the Cairo Ice and Coal Company Plant. The view is looking north in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men repair Poplar Street in Cairo that was damaged by a broken water main during flood.

A view looking west shows Works Progress Administration men cleaning debris from south 5th Street in Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men throw debris onto a truck from the alley of 4th Street and 5th Street in Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men load debris from the alley between 4th Street and 5th Street in Mound City.

A Works Progress Administration craftsman turns table legs on a lathe.

Works Progress Administration men clean the sidewalk on North Main Street in Mound City.

A vacant lot containing several of the toilets removed from Mound City streets.

The view of the south levee shows where Works Progress Administration men cut and re-filled a gap used to drain flood water from Mounds.

The boat carrying Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and his party through floodwaters prepares to undock.

The Harry Hopkins party departs from Cairo.

Civilian Conservation Corps trucks assemble at Olive Branch ready for emergency calls.

Men work on the dock on the Ohio River at the front of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

Part of the Barrett Line in action on the Ohio River at Cairo.

One of the U. S. Army Engineers motor boats leaves Cairo for Mound City.

Floodwaters reach the bottom of the Cache River Bridge on Route 51, 4 miles north of Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men work on the Ohio levee. View is looking west from Ohio River.

Men work to pump water from Route 150, one mile north of Cairo.

Several men stand at one of Cairo's major sand boils at 27th Street and Commercial Avenue.

A man works at the sand boil at 27th Street and Commercial Avenue in Cairo.

A man looks at the flood damage at the Cairo Ice and Coal Company Plant which was partly destroyed by the sand boil at 27th Street and Commercial Avenue in Cairo.