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

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A view shows the flooding at the Works Progress Administration tool house looking east in Harrisburg.

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Several men work at the Works Progress Administration Time Office located inside Marine Hospital in Cairo.

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A man works stacking Works Progress Administration sewing machines after the flood in Shawneetown.

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Works Progress Administration men fill sand bags for the Ohio levee in Cairo.

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Joe Kirch (center) and two other men work at the Works Progress Administration Main Office located inside Marine Hospital in Cairo.

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Remains of Works Progress Administration sewing machines and equipment stand outside a buildingafter the flood. On verso: "These machines were moved from a one story building into the second floor of another building and was under 5 and 1/2 feet of…

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Works Progress Administration men enter Cairo to work on the levee.

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

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Works Progress Administration men fill sand bags at the entrance of the sub-way on Route 151 in Cairo, looking north.

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

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Works Progress Administration men pump floodwater out of the well of S. D. Hill in New Haven.

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

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W. Williams, director of District #5, looks over the flood situation from in front of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

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W. C. Sargent, local Superintendent of Gulf Warehouse, sits outside of the warehouse in Cairo.

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

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A truck takes a load of dead animals from Mound City to the burying grounds.

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The roofs of several flooded automobiles that were in a traffic jam on Route 37 on the outskirts of Mound City when the Ohio levee broke are barely visible above the water.

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

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

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Several people walk through a tent city.

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Floodwaters surround homes in an unidentified north suburb of Mounds.

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Houses sit submerged along a flooded street in Mounds.

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A stranded automobile sits submerged on a flooded street in Mounds.

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Works Progress Administration men clean the streets in Shawneetown.
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