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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Children in Bayliss Park
April 1952

Serving lunch to flood volunteers
April 1952

Surveying railroad tracks near the levee
April 1952

Wrecked truck
April 1952

Waiting for the barber
April 1952

Checking out the water meter
April 1952

April 1952
Photo courtesy of Hudleson Studio, Onawa, IA

A soldier and his dog taking a break
April 1952

Deserted railroad tracks
April 1952

Power line repair
April 1952

The "Sandbagged City" . . . becomes a synonym for Council Bluffs in news stories carried throughout the world by press services. Many downtown businesses protected fronts with bags of sand. These are piled alongside the old Howard Plastics Co. at…

Misplaced beaver near the Missouri River

North Levee, Council Bluffs, IA
April 1952

Levee breach on the Missouri River
April 1952

Mayor James Mulqueen raising the flag at the 1952 Flood Volunteer Memorial

Axtell Chevrolet Co. readies for flood waters
April 1952

Reinforcing a door in preparation for Missouri River flooding
April 1952

Safe from the threatening reach of the flooding Missouri river, these people who evacuated their homes as flood waters climbed to a new crest sleep soundly at the Red Cross shelter in the Abraham Lincoln High School.
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