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Flood of 1952 File #4
Donald Wessels looks at the pile of sandbags at the basement window of the Blake Mitchell home at 619 North 30th Street. If the water doesn't reach the area, the neighborhood kids will have a heck of a big sandpile to play in.
Flood of 1952 File #4
Smashed paving . . . bears imprint of giant earth-moving machines that scarred city streets during flood fight.
Flood of 1952 File #4
Corp. Gerald Botcher, Houston, MN and PFC Teofilo D. Marinez, Durango, CO, Company A 472 Engineers, Aviation Batallion, rest in Bayliss Park.
Flood of 1952 File #4
Army personnel wash their trucks with fire hoses
Flood of 1952 File #4
Soldiers play cards on makeshift sandbag furniture
Flood of 1952 File #4
Inoculation for measles was an order of the day for small evacuees during the Council Bluffs flood threat. Dr. John Keller of Council Bluffs, who volunteered his services, injects a dose of immune serum globulin while Nurse Regina Riley of Jennie…
Flood of 1952 File #4 and File #5
Protect Right Of Way - Section men for the Illinois Central railroad sandbag the right of way along their line north of Council Bluffs. In most of the area, Missouri River flood water is either standing or running on both sides of the tracks.
Flood of 1952 File #5
Men gather in downtown Council Bluffs
Flood of 1952 File #5
Playing baseball in Bayliss Park
Flood of 1952 File #5
A Hamburg, IA evacuee loads a wagon
Flood of 1952 File #5
Hanging out of the kitchen window
Flood of 1952 File #5
Salvation Army volunteers bring food to evacuees
Flood of 1952 File #5
Aerial view of the flooded Missouri river between Council Bluffs and Omaha looking south
Flood of 1952 File #5
Plank roadway was being laid by volunteers on the levee near Big Lake on Monday. Later, trucks will haul dirt and sand for two miles along this stretch of levee to "beef up" against "wash waves."
Flood of 1952 File #5
Volunteers are putting up flashboard on the Council Bluffs side of the Missouri river a few days before the expected crest.
Flood of 1952 File #5
Cots fill the gymnasium at Abraham Lincoln High School, the main evacuation center set up by the Red Cross. More than 250 evacuees took refuge in this center as the Missouri river threatened their homes.
Flood of 1952 File #6
A young boy stands on a flood-damaged street
Flood of 1952 File #6
Sandbag clean-up at the school
Flood of 1952 File #6
Laundry time