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

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

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

Works Progress Administration men work on the bulkhead at the foot of 4th Street in Cairo.

Several men stand next to a pile of sand bags at the sand boil at 40th Street in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men work on the bulkhead between 4th Street and 6th Street on the Ohio levee in Cairo.

A view of the beginning of three sand boils at Future City, 1 mile north of Cairo. On verso: "Not large enough to work."

A close up view shows the interior of the sand boil at 40th Street in Cairo.

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

An aerial view shows the flooding when looking north from the top of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

An aerial view of flooding looking south from the top of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

An aerial view shows the flooding from the top of the Halliday Hotel looking southwest of Cairo.

A view of flooding looking south from the top of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo across the Ohio River show a flooded street.

Works Progress Administration men work on the bulkhead at the foot of 2nd Street in Cairo.

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

Civilian Conservation Corps boys of Company 1685 in Sparta work on the bulk head 2 miles north of Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men line up to change shifts on the Ohio levee in Cairo.

A group of men survey the flooding on Route 51, 3 miles north of Cairo, looking south.

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

Two men stand among the flooding on U. S. Highway 51, 3 and 1/2 miles north of Cairo, looking east. The Cache River bridge can be seen in the background.

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

Two men stand on the old I. C. dump next to some of W. A. Sinks' rescued livestock near the village of Cache. The view is looking west from Cache Depot.

Works Progress Administration men fill sand bags on the Ohio levee between 3rd Street and 4th Street in Cairo.

Works Progress Association men work on the Ohio levee at the 4th Street gap in Cairo.

A view looking south shows Civilian Conservation Corps boys of Company 1685 in Sparta working on the Ohio Levee 2 miles north of Cairo.