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

W. C. Sargent, local Superintendent of Gulf Warehouse, sits outside of the warehouse in Cairo.

W. Williams, director of District #5, looks over the flood situation from in front of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

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

Works Progress Administration men pump floodwater out of the well of S. D. Hill in New Haven.

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 fill sand bags at the entrance of the sub-way on Route 151 in Cairo, looking north.

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

Works Progress Administration men enter Cairo to work on the levee.

Remains of Works Progress Administration sewing machines and equipment stand outside a buildingafter the flood. On verso: "These machines were moved from a one story building into the second floor of another building and was under 5 and 1/2 feet of…

Joe Kirch (center) and two other men work at the Works Progress Administration Main Office located inside Marine Hospital in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men fill sand bags for the Ohio levee in Cairo.

A man works stacking Works Progress Administration sewing machines after the flood in Shawneetown.

Several men work at the Works Progress Administration Time Office located inside Marine Hospital in Cairo.

A view shows the flooding at the Works Progress Administration tool house looking east in Harrisburg.

Two men stand among the interior damage suffered by the Works Progress Administration tool house in Harrisburg.