Browse Items (266 total)

Sand appears from beneath a sidewalk.

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

Works Progress Administration men pile up destroyed office furniture in the Mound City Courthouse.

Works Progress Administration men repair the Douglas Colored School building after it was under floodwaters in the village of Cache.

Works Progress Administration men clean and repair the Douglas Colored School in the village of Cache.

Works Progress Administration men work to drain floodwater through the gap cut in the levee at Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men drain flood water through a gap in the back levee at Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men float a drowned mule down High Street in Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men turn pages in wet books while drying them.

Works Progress Administration men dump condemned fruit and vegetables at the burying ground southwest of Mound City.

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

A view of flooding looking east on Route 37 from Mound City.

A street view shows flooding looking east on Elm Street from Poplar Street in Harrisburg.

Works Progress Administration men pump flood water from the cistern of the Everett Mathis property in Shawneetown.

Floodwaters reach the roof line of a farm home located between Mound City and Mounds.

Works Progress Administration men fill in the old toilet on the Walsh Heath property in Ridgway.

Works Progress Administration men fill sand bags on the Ohio levee between 3rd Street and 4th Street 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 and Governor Henry Horner pose for pictures as they stand on the Ohio Levee in Cairo.

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

A street view shows destruction on Route 37 in the south city limits of Mound City, looking north.

A rabbit seeks refuge on the roof of a flooded home in Mound City.

A streetview shows flooding on 3rd Street in Tamms.

A view of flooding shows a largely submerged house on 3rd Street in Tamms, looking north.

Floodwater stands in a collapsed mine.