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Description: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, U.S. Route 51 between Mounds, Illinois, and Cairo, Illinois. River stage at Cairo, 52.8 feet. From "The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin", Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927 Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29.
Title: 1927 Mississippi flood Mounds-Cairo IL highway
Credit: NOAA photo library filename wea00735: originally at [1] (now at [2])
Author: Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS
Permission: This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties.
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