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Woman checking on dogs.

Group of men watching a card game.

Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross is right on the job of serving thousands of workers who are building dikes along the waterfront of this city. Photo shows Harold Bernstein, a dike worker from Council Bluffs, Iowa, as he receives some nourishment…

Red Cross volunteer Winona Coker has no trouble caring for her small charges in Danish Hall, emergency Red Cross shelter at Council Bluffs, as long as there is television to keep them rapt-eyed and quiet. The children are among the 48 persons…

Council Bluffs, Iowa - Mrs. Dan Shuffler, Red Cross volunteer, makes sure Mrs. George Jacobs (left) and her five children have plenty of milk with their noonday meal at on e of the 23 Red Cross shelters opened here to house families fleeing the…

Flood Emergency - G.S.\
Col. Person and B/Gen. Chorpening (OCE) inspecting the levee.
Council Bluffs - 14th St. Levee

Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Caring for scores of children evacuated from their homes, while their parents are working during the flood emergency has become a major Red Cross job in this community. Shown here are children from low-lying homes in the…

Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross Disaster worker Lillian McKinnon, of the mid-western area, as she hands an emergency message to Mr. Leo Meyerson, in the Red Cross disaster office in this city. Mr. Myerson is the communications…

Council Bluffs -- Here Mobile Radio Unit operates as the intersection of 21st Street and Avenue C. A dispatcher at the left makes a record of the street address and directs a volunteer trucker to the home.
(Photo courtesy of Strohbehn Studio,…

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Petersen . . . pack their dishes before evacuating their new home in Midland Manor.

Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross Nurse, Lorraine Thomas, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as she takes pulse and temp. of Mrs. Carrie Ives, 92 years old, who was an ambulance case. Picture was taken in the Iowa Home For The Deaf which is now…

Dr. E.O. Bean and Mrs. Anna Lainson, Red Cross nurse, examine Stevie Wood, 9 months old, held by his mother, Mrs. Georgia Wood, in Danish Hall, an emergency Red Cross shelter at Council Bluffs. The child was injured in an accident at the family home,…

Wholesale evacuation of Council Bluffs' flood-threatened residents to 23 Red Cross shelters posed a number of problems -- not the least of which is that of clean clothes for refugees. And it's a problem the Red Cross is ready for. Two of its…

Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross volunteers, Mrs. A.R. Hettinger and Mrs. A.E. Gaddis, both of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as they serve lunch to flood victims in the Red Cross disaster office in this city.

Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . The American Red Cross is right on the job in serving thousands of dike workers along the waterfront of this city. Photo shows Richard Fahrenkrog, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as he receives some coffee from Red Cross…

Council Bluffs -- This photograph shows volunteers from an Omaha company loading furniture into a boxcar on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul railroad. The trucks came from all types of concerns within a radius of 100 miles from Council Bluffs.

Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross volunteer, Winona Coker, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as she combs the hair of Gaylene Wolter, as this young flood victim plays with paper dolls. Her friend (on left) Charlotte McCoy is also busy playing…

Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross Volunteer, Mrs. Verna Davis, as she serves lunch to flood victims in the Red Cross disaster office in this city.

Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Television in Red Cross centers in Council Bluffs, Iowa during the flood threat helped break the long hours of semi-confinement for young evacuees.

Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Red Cross nurses and nurses aids from the Pottawattamie County Chapter of the American Red Cross were on duty at 21 shelters during and after the evacuation of thousands of homes in the residential section of this city. Here…