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Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and members of his party leave the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and members of his party leave the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and his party use a small wooden bridge to cross floodwaters and exit Cairo. The Halliday Hotel can be seen in the background.

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

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

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

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

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

Members of the out-post guard try to keep warm on the Dredge Ditch Levee located 2 and 1/2 miles north of McClure.

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

An individual sits and uses a radio inside an Air Corps truck built for instrument flying.

Men paddle rescue boats in flooded Tamms.

Works Progress Association men work on the Mississippi River Levee.

Works Progress Administration men build a bulkhead on the Mississippi River levee at 28th Street and Cache Street in Cairo.

The Harry Hopkins party departs from Cairo.

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

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

Works Progress Administration men remove mine gob from West Raymond Street in Harrisburg. On verso: "This was the temporary roadway that was being built during flood."

Works Progress Administration men remove sandbags from McKinley Street in front of Everybody's Drug Store in Harrisburg.

Works Progress Administration men pump floodwater from the cistern of Cue Church at 824 West Church Street in Harrisburg.

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

Floodwater stands in a collapsed mine.

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

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

Works Progress Administration men remove a dead goat from the intersection of Route 45 and Route 13 in Harrisburg.