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A man in a boat travels the flooded streets of Mound City as the camera looks south.

A street view shows flooding in the southwest section of Mound City.

A street view shows flooding from Route 37 looking north in Mound City.

A pile of lumber floats in the floodwaters in Mound City, Pulaski County, at Route 37 looking northeast.

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

Joe Kirch listens on the telephone in the Works Progress Administration Main Office located inside Marine Hospital in Cairo.

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

An automobile sits inside the gates of the Gulf Warehouse as the camera looks south in Cairo.

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

Works Progress Administration men work on the bulkhead at the foot of 4th Street in Cairo.

Several men stand next to a pile of sand bags at the sand boil at 40th Street in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men work on the bulkhead between 4th Street and 6th Street on the Ohio levee in Cairo.

A view of the beginning of three sand boils at Future City, 1 mile north of Cairo. On verso: "Not large enough to work."

A close up view shows the interior of the sand boil at 40th Street in Cairo.

An interior view of Gulf Warehouse shows where Works Progress Administration workmen slept in Cairo.

An aerial view shows the flooding when looking north from the top of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

An aerial view of flooding looking south from the top of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

An aerial view shows the flooding from the top of the Halliday Hotel looking southwest of Cairo.

A view of flooding looking south from the top of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo across the Ohio River show a flooded street.

Works Progress Administration men work on the bulkhead at the foot of 2nd Street in Cairo.

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

Civilian Conservation Corps boys of Company 1685 in Sparta work on the bulk head 2 miles north of Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men line up to change shifts on the Ohio levee in Cairo.

A group of men survey the flooding on Route 51, 3 miles north of Cairo, looking south.

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