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

The Harry Hopkins party departs from Cairo.

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

The view of the south levee shows where Works Progress Administration men cut and re-filled a gap used to drain flood water from Mounds.

A vacant lot containing several of the toilets removed from Mound City streets.

Works Progress Administration men clean the sidewalk on North Main Street in Mound City.

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

Works Progress Administration men load debris from the alley between 4th Street and 5th Street in Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men throw debris onto a truck from the alley of 4th Street and 5th Street in Mound City.

A view looking west shows Works Progress Administration men cleaning debris from south 5th Street in Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men repair Poplar Street in Cairo that was damaged by a broken water main during flood.

Works Progress Administration men repair the sewer on 27th Street and Commercial Street where one of major sand boils wrecked the Cairo Ice and Coal Company Plant. The view is looking north in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men fill and tamp the south levee gap that was cut to drain flood water from Mound City.

A street view shows flood damage in the north section of Mound City looking south.

Works Progress Administration men build toilets for Tent City, 4 miles west of Shawneetown.

Several people walk through a tent city.

The view looking west on Madison Street is blocked by buildings that floated from their foundations.

Works Progress Administration men clean North Market Street.

Works Progress Administration workers remove the roof of Bradley's Garage which floated to the center of North Market Street.

Works Progress Administration men clean debris from South Market Street

A truck unloads at the dumping grounds created for flood clean-upa 1/2 mile north of Shawneetown.

Works Progress Administration men clean debris from South Main Street in Shawneetown.

Works Progress Administration men clean South Commercial Avenue in Shawneetown.

Works Progress Administration men clean North Main Street in Shawneetown.

Works Progress Administration men clean the streets in Shawneetown.