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A landscape view of flooding looking southeast from West Harrisburg shows water levels reaching the rooflines of several houses.

A landscape view shows flooding looking east from West Harrisburg to what is know locally as "West End".

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

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

Gilbert Sheerer, Works Progress Administration foreman, looks through his home in Mound City after the flood. On verso: "This was general condition of each room in his home, the house was left in center of street from flood waters."

A general view looking north shows the gap cut into the south levee at Mounds.

Floodwater drains from Mound City through a gap in the levee cut by Works Progress Administration men.

A street view shows flooded buildings on Front Street in Mounds.

A street view shows flooding on Front Street looking south in Mounds.

Flooding reaches the top of the first floor of several buildings on Front Street in Mounds looking north.

A landscape view shows flooding looking south from Route 51 northwest of Mounds.

Sand bags line the entrance to the mine shaft at Peabody Mine Number 43 near Harrisburg.

A view of flooding from Route 51, looking south from South Cairo. The Highway Bridge can be seen in the distance.

A chicken takes refuge in the bed of one of the many trucks and automobiles that were left in flood waters in Mount City.

Several men stand next to a train engine stuck on the tracks. The image was taken while looking north from East Church Street and Commercial Avenue in Harrisburg.

A view shows a collapsed mine (looking west) and a destroyed machine shop in the background.

Floodwater stands in a collapsed mine.

A view of flooding shows a largely submerged house on 3rd Street in Tamms, looking north.

A streetview shows flooding on 3rd Street in Tamms.

A rabbit seeks refuge on the roof of a flooded home in Mound City.

A street view shows destruction on Route 37 in the south city limits of Mound City, looking north.

Works Progress Administration men remove a hog from the home of J. H. Tucker on North Oak Street in Harrisburg.

Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and Governor Henry Horner pose for pictures as they stand on the Ohio Levee in Cairo.

Videographers film movies of Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and Governor Henry Horner as they stand on the Ohio Levee in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men fill sand bags on the Ohio levee between 3rd Street and 4th Street in Cairo.