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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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Flood Emergency - G.S.\
Col. Person and B/Gen. Chorpening (OCE) inspecting the levee.
Council Bluffs - 14th St. Levee
Col. Person and B/Gen. Chorpening (OCE) inspecting the levee.
Council Bluffs - 14th St. Levee
Flood of 1952 File #1
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 of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Historical Society of Pottawattamie County Member Journal
July/August 1999 Historical Society newsletter.
The Missouri River Floods
A lesson plan to be used in units on geography and history of the Missouri River and Council Bluffs.
Flood of 1952 Series
Seven aerial photographs of the Missouri flood of 1952
Flood of 1952
Group of men watching a card game.
Flood of 1952
Unidentified men examining a map.
Flood of 1952
Two men moving boxes.
Flood of 1952
Loading sandbags.
Flood of 1952
Group of unidentified men.
Flood of 1952
Group of unidentified boys in front of Abraham Lincoln High School.
Flood of 1952
Group of unidentified men.
Flood of 1952
3 unidentified women at a table.