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The Ohio River flood of March 1907, one of Wheeling, West Virginia's worst ever, was well
documented by enterprising photographers who turned their work into souvenir postcards,
such as this one showing the flooded intersection of Main and Twelfth Streets. Within days
of the flood, Nicoll's Art Store ran a newspaper advertisement for its postcards, boasting,
“Our Camera Experts were active and caught everything worth seeing.”
A widely reprinted postcard from the 1907 flood in Wheeling shows this schoolhouse
passing under the city's suspension bridge. The school building was reported to have
