The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927" class="extiw" title="en:Great Mississippi Flood of 1927">Great Mississippi Flood of 1927</a> on Blanche Avenue in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounds,_Illinois" class="extiw" title="en:Mounds, Illinois">Mounds, Illinois</a> on the Ohio River. River stage at Cairo, Illinois, 52.8 feet. From "The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin", Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927 Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29.
Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS
Taken on 29 March 1927
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/wea00734.htm">wea00734, Historic NWS Collection, NOAA Photo Library</a>, original file here: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/big/wea00734.jpg">[1]</a>