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

The Harry Hopkins party departs from Cairo.

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

Works Progress Association men work on the Mississippi River Levee.

Men paddle rescue boats in flooded Tamms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Livestock belonging to flood refugees keep dry in Cache.

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

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

A man works at 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.

Men work on the sand boil at 27th Street and Commercial Avenue in Cairo.

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.

A Coast Guard boat leaves Cairo for Mound City.

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.