Search and Rescue Operation during the Great Flood of 1927.Men poling and pushing a rescue boat through a flooded town. Another rescue boat filled with refugees in the background.
Timber piling clump dike, Chester to Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Mile 111.9 L. Dike partially completed. Three clumps (9 piling) required to complete. Upper Mississippi River, St. Louis Dist. C. of E.