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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Booklet with the cover title, Great 1913 Flood / Dayton, Ohio (Dayton: The Specialty Photograph Co., 1913). Interior title is Photographic Contemplation of One of Nature's Cataclysms with Respect to an Inland City, the Deluge at Dayton, March 25, 1913, was the Greatest Since the Days of Noah. Illustrated red paper wraps with an image of a flooded street on the front cover; two pages of text by Clarence B. Greene and [46] pages of illustrations from photographs. Booklet measures 7.75" x 5.25". In 1913, the Miami River "unharnessed and rebellious, wrought the destruction - and now the placid, yet still murky stream, sighs a mellow and eternal requiem over the havoc she wrought and chimes entrance to Paradise of the hundred souls she claimed. In the presence of a great disaster the human mind is appalled, the human tongue is silent save in supplication for aid, and the human pen is often paralyzed. However, the flood of 1913 directly affected 93,000 persons, 20,000 homes and entailed a property loss of approximately $200,000,000: the stretch of water was two miles wide, with a depth varying according to elevation and depression of and from 4 to 26 feet; while the lives of thousands were in jeopardy, and many answered the inexorable fiat of Nature. Emblazoned across the heavens are the names of innumerable ones whose deeds of heroism mark them as men and women of real character, who meet the full measure of God's own plan. So, to the memory of the souls who passed through Death into Life Eternal amid the flood, and to the service of their surviving kin and sorrowing neighbors, who cherish their memory while mourning their departure, in humble submission to the will of an All-Wise and Inscrutable Providence, this booklet is dedicated.", writes Clarence B. Greene, in the introduction to the photo illustrations. Each of the forty-six (46) photographic images of the city of Dayton during the flood and its aftermath are titled and reproduced one to a page. The first photo is attributed to "Mayfield". Except for some light color difference near the spine and a crease in the upper right corner of the front cover, the booklet is in VG+ to Near Fine condition. [20-410].