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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

April 1952
Photo courtesy of Hudleson Studio, Onawa, IA

Checking out the water meter
April 1952

Waiting for the barber
April 1952

Wrecked truck
April 1952

Surveying railroad tracks near the levee
April 1952

Serving lunch to flood volunteers
April 1952

Children in Bayliss Park
April 1952

Getting ready for Easter
April 1952

Bertie Schmidt
April 1952

Children in Balyliss Park
April 1952

Surveying the flooded Missouri River
April 1952

Aerial view of sand pit
April 1952

Crumbling streets due to flooding
April 1952

Flooded farmland
April 1952

Sandbag Tracks Through Levee . . . More than 3,500 sandbags are place in the leveel gap near Big Lake where the Illinois Central main line goes north from Council Bluffs. Water has risen to about three feet from the top of the railroad's grade at…

At Flood Victory Dedication . . . are Mrs. Margaret Garrett, Mrs. Martha Dent, Mayor James Mulqueen, Emmet Tinley and Carl Wegner.
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