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Soldiers gather at a flood relief command center

Missouri River flood damage

A special section of the Daily Nonpareil newspaper published on Friday, September 10, 1999 featuring images of flooding in Council Bluffs taken on August 6th and 7th of that year.

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Remnants Of A Bridge...dangle in the swollen waters of Walnut Creek in Waveland Township. It was one of a half dozen bridges washed out or damaged by ice and running water Tuesday.

Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Five hundred Boy Scouts from flood threatened Council Bluffs and surrounding communities worked around the clock as Red Cross messengers and aids. Here a group are shown making tags to identify furniture belonging to Council…

Looking west from side of bluff between 10th and 11th Avenue (back of 3rd Street School House). Flood of April 25, 1881.

View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881

View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881

View of the Missouri River west of Council Bluffs during the flood of 1881

Proposed Missouri River development plan, 1971

Mosquito Creek in foreground, showing levee break into gasoline tanks farm.

The Poudre in flood, looking west from the Oak Street Bridge, May 21, 1904

Looking East on Broadway from Eleventh Street, Council Bluffs, IA

Railroad switch engine pulling off stuck truck on west side of North Western RR city depot, about 4 p.m.
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