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Both Mechanical And Human Means...are used in sorting and grading the orchard fresh fruit. Edwin Carter watches as apples mover over the grader. Mrs. Carl Yates of Malvern watches for rejects.

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The Journey...from orchard to the farm plant is a careful one as Stacey and Suhr head for the sorting and packing shed with a trailer load of apples.

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First established in 1912...the Carter Orchard east of Glenwood was replanted in 1941. Now covering some 70 acres of the rolling Mills County land, the orachrd containes nearly 2,000 fruit trees...mostly apple. It is presently owned and operated by…

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A human chain passes sandbags along at the North Levee in Council Bluffs.

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One of the great worries of the flood was sandboils, caused by water seeping under the levees and breaking through the earth behind them. Sandboils near the Douglas Street bridge on the Iowa side are ringed with sandbags.

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Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross nurse, Mrs. Helen Kruml, Council Bluffs, takes the pulse and temperature of flood victim Lawrence Jaco, Council Bluffs, at Washington School, which is now serving as a Red Cross emergency shelter. Approximately…

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Council Bluffs, Iowa - - Red Cross canteens served thousands of sandwiches daily to workers on the dikes north of this flood threatened city. Here, a canteen furnished by the St. Louis, Missouri Chapter of the Red Cross, provides coffee and…

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Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross nurse Mrs. Helen Kruml, of Council Bluffs, takes time out from her numerous medical duties to amuse a young flood victim, Elinor Montgomery, in front of an Indian statue at Washington School, which is now a Red…

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Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross nurse Mrs. Helen Kruml of Council Bluffs, feeds a bottle of milk to Janice Collier, Council Bluffs at Washington School, which is now serving as a Red Cross emergency shelter. Approximately 195 flood victims are…

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Piers for a new highway bridge usually standing on dry ground were subjected to torrents of Missouri River water during the flood.

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What was once a peaceful farm scene is now a picture of destruction as the Missouri River flooded this farm north of Omaha.

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Safe from the threatening reach of the flooding Missouri river, these people who evacuated their homes as flood waters climbed to a new crest sleep soundly at the Red Cross shelter in the Abraham Lincoln High School.

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Reinforcing a door in preparation for Missouri River flooding
April 1952

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Axtell Chevrolet Co. readies for flood waters
April 1952

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Mayor James Mulqueen raising the flag at the 1952 Flood Volunteer Memorial

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Levee breach on the Missouri River
April 1952

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North Levee, Council Bluffs, IA
April 1952

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Misplaced beaver near the Missouri River

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The "Sandbagged City" . . . becomes a synonym for Council Bluffs in news stories carried throughout the world by press services. Many downtown businesses protected fronts with bags of sand. These are piled alongside the old Howard Plastics Co. at…

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Power line repair
April 1952
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