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Men navigate a flooded town by boat.

A streetview shows flooding in the northeast section of Tamms.

Men work to re-enforce the bulk head next to water's edge in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men trample down dirt in the bulkhead on the Ohio levee in Cairo.

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

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.

Several men view the flood damage as the camera looks north from 8th Street along 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 administrator Harry Hopkins stands on the levee in front of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins looks over flood damage in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men raise the bulkhead on the Ohio Levee at Cairo.

Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and several unidentified men cross the muddy street in front of the Halliday Hotel.

Governor Henry Horner is helped down from the Ohio Levee in Cairo.

Governor Henry Horner stands near the waters edge during his visit to Cairo.

A view of flooding at Camp Cache, looking northwest, shows several submerged buildings.

A view of the flooding at Camp Cache, located 1 and 1/2 miles north of Cache on Route 150. The image, looking southwest, shows several flooded buildings.

A Coast Guard boat leaves Cairo for Mound City.

Several sandbags line one of the lowest places on the Ohio Levee at 42nd Street. The Big Four Railroad Bridge can be seen in the background.

Men work on 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.

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

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

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

Livestock belonging to flood refugees keep dry in Cache.