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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Several people walk through a tent city.

Floodwaters surround homes in an unidentified north suburb of Mounds.

Houses sit submerged along a flooded street in Mounds.

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

Works Progress Administration men clean the streets in Shawneetown.