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The oldest bank building in the State of Illinois, located in Shawneetown, is still intact after the flood.

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

Men navigate a flooded town by boat.

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

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.

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.

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.