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A view shows a collapsed mine (looking west) and a destroyed machine shop in the background.

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.

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.

A landscape view shows flooding looking south from Route 51 northwest of Mounds.

Flooding reaches the top of the first floor of several buildings on Front Street in Mounds looking north.

A street view shows flooding on Front Street looking south in Mounds.

A street view shows flooded buildings on Front Street in Mounds.

Floodwater drains from Mound City through a gap in the levee cut by Works Progress Administration men.

A general view looking north shows the gap cut into the south levee at Mounds.

Gilbert Sheerer, Works Progress Administration foreman, looks through his home in Mound City after the flood. On verso: "This was general condition of each room in his home, the house was left in center of street from flood waters."

An interior view of Gulf Warehouse shows where Works Progress Administration workmen slept in Cairo.

An automobile sits inside the gates of the Gulf Warehouse as the camera looks south in Cairo.

A landscape view shows flooding looking east from West Harrisburg to what is know locally as "West End".

A landscape view of flooding looking southeast from West Harrisburg shows water levels reaching the rooflines of several houses.

A landscape view shows flooding looking from City Park towards the public swimming pool in Harrisburg.

Harry Hopkins (front row, left), director of the Works Progress Administration, stands with Governor Henry Horner (front row, center) and other individuals during a visit to Cairo to examine the damage caused by the Ohio River Flood.

Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins looks over flood damage 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 and several unidentified men cross the muddy street in front of the Halliday Hotel.

Members of the Harry Hopkins party board a boat in Cairo. Hopkins was theWorks Progress Administration administrator.

Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and members of his party leave the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

The Harry Hopkins party departs from Cairo.

Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and his party use a small wooden bridge to cross floodwaters and exit Cairo. The Halliday Hotel can be seen in the background.