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An obviously dedicated cigar smoker being rescued from his partially submerged car in Detroit from 1926. From an inherited collection of 4x5 glass negatives. View full size.
Narrowing done the date to that of a major Detroit flood.
ref: https://weatherhistorian.blogspot.com/2014/08/new-record-day-rainfall-at...
I suspect that each of those young boys, while learning a lesson in gallantry and helping others, were really wishing that the rescued man would fall into the muddy water.
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