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<B>Beardstown Waterfront</B> at high water (undated) <B>Gary Sheahan</B><BR><i>Grain Elevators, Beardstown, Illinois</i><BR>1955<BR>Tempera on drawing board, 20 by 28 inches <B>New Tressel Work Wiped Out</B> by flood on April 16, 1922. Note on photograph describes this location as where the dump wash out crosses the river. <B>Surveying Flood Damage</B> to new tressel work on April 16, 1922, near Beardstown <B>Remains of a Plank Road </B>near Belleville, Illinois in St. Clair County. The photograph shows the parallel planks, which were laid across the one-lane roadbed. <B>High Water</B> encroaching upon a house and mobile home in this undated photograph. The homes have been built on eight-foot-tall foundations as a precaution against repeated flooding. <B>Rowing Down Main Street</B> in Beardstown, Illinois during a flood (undated). <B>Swept Away</B> Railroad workers survey the damage caused by raging flood waters of the Illinois near Beardstown. (circa 1913) <B>Button Card </B>(reverse side) from a Washington, Iowa shell button factory on the Mississippi River. The numbered circles on the card show the various sized of buttons, which are measured in <i>ligne,</i>.

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