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

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

Photo Category: Monsters - Floods
Photo Location: Ohio, Dayton
Photo Date: 1913, Late March