On Works Progress Administration (WPA) flood relief operations in the Ohio River Valley. Flood waters rage in the Upper Ohio Valley in January, 1937. Boats are used to rescue persons trapped in buildings. The Red Cross distributes food at an outdoor kitchen. The WPA distributes clothing. Nurses inoculate children for typhoid. Levees and sea walls are constructed in the Lower Ohio Valley. Harry Hopkins, Gen. Edward M. Markham, Col. F.C. Harrington, Surgeon General Thomas Parran, and Red Cross representative James L. Fieser inspect water-covered roads in Arkansas and refugee camps at Louisville. Louisville and Cincinnati fires are shown.

National Archives Identifier: 12357

Local Identifier: 69.43

* Creator(s): Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration. (07/01/1939 - 06/30/1943) (Most Recent)

* From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled 1931 - 1937

* Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944

* Level of Description: Item

* Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images

* This item was produced or created: 1937

The creator compiled or maintained the series between: 1931 - 1937

* General Note(s): Subject summary is available.

* Contributor: Producer, Works Progress Administration. Made by Pathe News.

* Use Restriction(s): Undetermined

Sound Type: Silent

* Accession Number(s): 330