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Flood of 1952 File #1
Water stretching Bluff-To-Bluff is no idle phrase. This lonely road a half-mile south of Highway 275 ends in flood water, has only one vehicle - an army engineer truck- at its end. Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick calls it the greatest flood ever seen by the…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs -- To care for children who had measles, mumps and whooping cough, the Red Cross established an isolation shelter for Missouri River flood evacuees. Here, Red Cross nurse Frances Zimmerman, a volunteer Red Cross nurse, who in normal…
Flood of 1952 File #1
There's continuous activity in the Red Cross Evacuation Control Center at Council Bluffs, Iowa - heart of the Red Cross operation to care for the temporarily homeless residents of the threatened Iowa city. Here, evacuees are registered and plans made…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- The problem of shelter and feeding evacuees in flood embattled Council Bluffs rests on the shoulders of these four men, three of whom are volunteers of the Pottawattamie County Chapter of the Red Cross. Left to right are…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- School age evacuees at Red Cross shelters in the Council Bluffs flood threat are proved with recreation to help them pass the time while they await the outcome of the flood. Planned recreation includes baseball for the boys.…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross volunteer Winona Coker, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as she reads and amuses some young flood victims. Photo was taken in the Abraham Lincoln High School, which is now serving as a Red Cross emergency…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Evacuees from the low-lying area of Council Bluffs, who are being housed in Red Cross shelters while the threat of a dike break is still imminent, are all checked for possible illnesses before they are placed in centers. Here,…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- The aged, as well as younger evacuees, received aid during the flood threat to this city. Elderly evacuees were housed in a special shelter set-up in Eagles Hall. Here Red Cross nurse Mrs. Mae Owens, places a blanket over Mrs.…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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.
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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.
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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,…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Petersen . . . pack their dishes before evacuating their new home in Midland Manor.
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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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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,…
(Photo courtesy of Strohbehn Studio,…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…