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Sandbags are brought in on the train tracks at the waterfront in Cairo during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

A street view shows a retaining wall in Cairo during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

Illinois Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentier poses for a portrait. The image is signed, "To my good friend Bob McClory, all best wishes, Charles F. Carpentier."

Floodwaters engulf the Chas. V. Parker Company storefront in the north part of Harrisburg during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

Although construction began in 1929, the opening of the Outer Drive Bridge in Chicago did not occur until 1937, when President Franklin Roosevelt visited the city to dedicate the bridge. The Public Works Administration, one of Roosevelt's many New…

Floodwaters fill the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in Cairo during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

Confetti falls as President Roosevelt's motorcade drives down LaSalle Street. The motorcade is most likely leaving the Outer Drive Bridge dedication.

Dedication of the Henry Horner Collection at the Centennial Building Auditorium. Horner was the twenty-eighth Governor of Illinois (1933-1940). Known as a reformer, Horner fought political patronage and oversaw the states troubled finances during the…

Democratic candidates gather at New Salem State Park for a photograph. On Verso: HORNER, Gov. Henry. 1932 Campaign, Democratic candidates at New Salem. State Park. Left to right: V. Y. Dallman, ed. Ill. State Register; Henry Horner, James A. Farley,…

Floodwaters surround the depot at Harrisburg during the Ohio River Flood.

Chicago Mayor Edward Kelly (second from left), Governor Henry Horner (third from left), Illinois U.S. Senator William H. Dieterich (fourth from left) and three unidentified men at a Chicago train station.

Governor Henry Horner (front row, second from left), Illinois U.S. Senator William H. Dieterich (front row, third from left), Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes (front row, fourth from left), and other dignitaries on the reviewing stand at the…

Portrait of Dilah Horner, mother of Henry Horner.

Floodwaters hit the sandbags along the double bulkhead at Cairo during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

Men work to reinforce the double bulkhead at Cairo.

An artist-signed pen and ink sketch shows the east doorway of the Old Main building at Knox College in Galesburg. On verso: "East doorway Old Main, Knox College. From these steps Lincoln and Douglas debated October 1, 1858. 'Old Main' was designated…

Men stand on a dry road east of Equality during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly (1933-1947) speaks at the dedication of the Outer Drive Bridge, while Henry Horner (seated on right) listens. Kelly rose in Chicago politics as the chief engineer of the Chicago Sanitary District in the 1920s. As mayor,…

An aerial view shows flooding in Elizabethtown during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows a flooded farmhouse with some land visible.

Floodwaters reach the tops of gas pumps at the filling station at Route 45 and Route 13 near Big 4 Station during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

Men place sandbags along the retaining wall in Cairo during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

View of the high water mark on the bank columns and flood damage in Shawneetown.

A view of buildings damaged and destroyed by flooding in Shawneetown, east along the south levee.

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