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Aerial view of a secondary levee, one-half mile below the primary North levee in Council Bluffs. It is 1.75 miles long, built over 28 sets of railroad tracks and was constructed in just 2.5 days.

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Sandbags along the levee in Council Bluffs

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Peeling potatoes for the troops

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Evacuation traffic in downtown Council Bluffs

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Soldiers gather at a flood relief command center

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Missouri River flood damage

Floods F566v.tiff
Seven aerial photographs of the Missouri flood of 1952

The Flood of 1999 Nonpareil Special.pdf
A special section of the Daily Nonpareil newspaper published on Friday, September 10, 1999 featuring images of flooding in Council Bluffs taken on August 6th and 7th of that year.

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Remnants Of A Bridge...dangle in the swollen waters of Walnut Creek in Waveland Township. It was one of a half dozen bridges washed out or damaged by ice and running water Tuesday.

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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…
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