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City leaders shouldering shovels and hoes to help clean up the city

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City leaders shouldering shovels and hoes to help clean up the city. Little mudon the clothes might indicate a posed picture for publicity purposes.As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, and Tornadoby Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher.These floods caused 527 deaths, the U.S. record for the 20th Century.

Photographer

Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas

Display Date

1913, Late March

Location

Ohio, Dayton

Collection

Weather Service
Meteorological Monsters
Floods

NOAA Affiliation

NOS

Keywords

Monsters
Floods