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Flood of 1952 File #1
City officials discussing flood efforts
Flood of 1952 File #1
The North Levee in Council Bluffs, IA
April 1952
April 1952
Flood of 1952 File #1
Willard White and Orville Athen begin swabbing out their implement store at Hamburg.
Flood of 1952 File #1 and File #5
Theater Closes . . . Manager Allan Schrimpf hangs a closed sign on the Broadway theater Saturday evening. The theater and other business places termed non-essential to the Missouri River flood fight were ordered closed by proclamation of Mayor James…
Flood of 1952 File #1 and File #5
Building Railroad Roadbed . . . is this train and crew on the Illinois Central track near Pigeon Creek. Ballast is in end car. Center cars in worktrain are just "couplings" to keep heavy locomotive from flood-weakened roadbed.
Flood of 1952 File #1 and File #5
Start To Raise Levees . . . on North Eighth street at Big Lake. The large machines must plow through gummy mud to dump their loads. This picture was taken from the bluff east of the levee. In the distance, water is pushing against the level from the…
Flood of 1952 File #1 and File #5
Only The Top . . . of the entrace to the school gym is visible as the Modale school begins to fill with water.
Flood of 1952 File #1 and File #5
Some 10,000 Empty Sandbags . . . are stored at city hall. Looking over bags are Patrolman C.J. Turpen and Maurice Katelman. A total of 210,000 bags will be on hand for emergency use.
Flood of 1952 File #1 and File #5
Fill Earth Bags . . . Employees of the City Ice Company fill earth bags on Gibraltar for possible flood protection around the plant at Tenth Avenue and Twelfth Street.
Flood of 1952 File #2
Girl Scouts doing laundry April 23, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
A woman reads with her children on April 21, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
Women prepare coffee at the Hamburg Canteen on April 20, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
A Salvation Army worker provides a meal to children at a flood evacuation center on April 20, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
City officials on April 20, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
Sandbags surround radio station KSWI on April 20, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
Volunteers prepare sandwiches for levee workers on April 20, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
A tugboat moves a barge on the flooded Missouri River on April 19, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
A man protects equipment at Howard Plastics on April 19, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
Storekeeper A.E. Hill surveys 500 regular telephones and 100 pay phones removed from evacuated areas and placed in temporary storage in a local garage on April 18, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
A young girl is keeping herself entertained at a flood evacuation center on April 17, 1952