Submerged drainage district, Cairo, Illinois, 1913 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Submerged drainage district, Cairo, Illinois, 1913, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: [Submerged drainage district, Cairo, Ill., April, 1913]
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Submerged drainage district, Cairo, Illinois, 1913
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Cairo, Illinois, sat at the meeting point of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in 1913, and its fortunes depended on those waters. River steamboats, grain and timber trade, and the Illinois Central rail lines all passed through the town. That winter, the great flood of early 1913 pushed both rivers to record heights, and the low ground behind the levees, much of it farmland organized into drainage districts, filled with standing water. A flooded drainage district like the one shown here was a daily concern for landowners and levee commissioners, who had to decide how long the water would stay and how to pump it out. Residents of Cairo knew their town as a river city that lived with the threat of high water.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fawkner, frederick p. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,365 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Submerged drainage district, Cairo, Ill., April, 1913] |
| Reference | IL Submerged drainage district, Cairo, 1913 |
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