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Part of the Barrett Line in action on the Ohio River at Cairo.

Men work on the dock on the Ohio River at the front of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

Members of the out-post guard try to keep warm on the Dredge Ditch Levee located 2 and 1/2 miles north of McClure.

Civilian Conservation Corps trucks assemble at Olive Branch ready for emergency calls.

An individual sits and uses a radio inside an Air Corps truck built for instrument flying.

Men paddle rescue boats in flooded Tamms.

Works Progress Association men work on the Mississippi River Levee.

Works Progress Administration men build a bulkhead on the Mississippi River levee at 28th Street and Cache Street in Cairo.

The Harry Hopkins party departs from Cairo.

The boat carrying Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and his party through floodwaters prepares to undock.

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

Works Progress Administration men remove mine gob from West Raymond Street in Harrisburg. On verso: "This was the temporary roadway that was being built during flood."

Works Progress Administration men remove sandbags from McKinley Street in front of Everybody's Drug Store in Harrisburg.

Works Progress Administration men pump floodwater from the cistern of Cue Church at 824 West Church Street in Harrisburg.

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

Floodwater stands in a collapsed mine.

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

Works Progress Administration men remove a hog from the home of J. H. Tucker on North Oak Street in Harrisburg.

Works Progress Administration men remove a dead goat from the intersection of Route 45 and Route 13 in Harrisburg.

Residents leave Church Street and McKinley Street for a landing at Everybody's Drug Store in Harrisburg.

The flooding at Hudson "Eerplane" Garage on North Main Street in Harrisburg almost entirely covers the building.

A railroad crossing sign is just visible above the flooding on North Main Street looking south in Harrisburg.

A street view shows the flooding on North Main Street five blocks from the square in Harrisburg.

A street view shows flooding on North Main Street looking north four blocks from the square in Harrisburg.

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