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View of flooding and damage caused to the old shaft of the Sahara Number Three Mine in Harrisburg.

Several men stand next to a train engine stuck on the tracks. The image was taken while looking north from East Church Street and Commercial Avenue in Harrisburg.

A chicken takes refuge in the bed of one of the many trucks and automobiles that were left in flood waters in Mount City.

An aerial view shows flooding around Mound City during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

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

Sand bags line the entrance to the mine shaft at Peabody Mine Number 43 near Harrisburg.

Students perform floor exercises while standing next to their desks.

Flora Merrill, a member of the 1906 Monticello Female Seminary graduating class, poses for a portrait.

Flora Thurman, of Abingdon, poses for a portrait in a dress with brocade on the corset and cuffs. On verso: "Uncle Jap's wife."

Florence Fifer Bohrer poses for a photograph wearing a long satin gown. Photo signature: "To my dear Florence who has achieved so much and kept her sweet soul. Filicite Oglesby; Cinci Bolognette; 19 November 1924 Oglehurst."

Florence Fifer Bohrer shakes Governor Adlai Stevenson II's hand at a reception.

Florence Fifer Bohrer shakes her mother, Gertrude Lewis Fifer's, hand after she was sworn into the Illinois Senate in 1925 as her daughter, Gertrude Bohrer, looks on.

Florence Fifer Bohrer poses for the camera while riding a horse.

Florence Fifer Bohrer walks down a store-lined street in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Florence Herdman poses for a portrait wearing a light-colored dress with a dark bow at the collar, Florence dedicated her life to teaching and never married.

Florence Herdman (third row far right, seated)gathers on the steps of Franklin School with the rest of the school's faculty. Florence was a lifelong teacher and never married.On verso: "Franklin School Faculty; Note hair ribbons (P.S. I could be…

Florence Herdman (back left) poses with her students in front of a school in Mount Vernon, Illinois. Florence dedicated her life to teaching and never married.

Stateville Prison housed prisoners in four "roundhouses" constructed on the basis of British philosopher and criminologist Jeremy Bentham's panopticon design, which allowed guards to observe all the cells in a roundhouse from a centrally located…

Floyd Thomas Voris of Iowa, an 1892 graduate of Highland Park College, sits for a portrait.

Men use equipment purchased by the Pendleton Construction Company to work on the new Skyline Drive. Skyline Drive is located along the Blue Ridge Mountains in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Men perform excavation work at Midtown Hudson Tunnel, more commonly known today as the Lincoln Tunnel. Construction of this tunnel began in 1934, funded by the New Deal's Public Work's Administration, and opened on December 22, 1937.

A woodcut shows two women walking away from the entrance to Fobes Hall on the Monticello Female Seminary campus.

The Foley family relocated to Canton in 1902, and established "Foley's Shaft" on the Shepley farm, a very successful coal mining company.