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Sandbags surround radio station KSWI on April 20, 1952

City officials on April 20, 1952

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A Salvation Army worker provides a meal to children at a flood evacuation center on April 20, 1952

A woman reads with her children on April 21, 1952

Girl Scouts doing laundry April 23, 1952

No Visible Support . . . is provided where 10 feet of Illinois Central roadbed is missing beneath this motor car at edge of a tretle near Pigeon Creek. Frank Servia, Omaha, is on trestle.

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.

Willard White and Orville Athen begin swabbing out their implement store at Hamburg.

The North Levee in Council Bluffs, IA
April 1952

City officials discussing flood efforts

An overturned truck on the levee is a casualty of the Missouri River flood prevention efforts

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.

Only The Top . . . of the entrace to the school gym is visible as the Modale school begins to fill with water.

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…

Sand truck convoy on the levee in Council Bluffs, April 14, 1952

City officials at the Red Cross Communicaitons Center on April 17, 1952

City officials checking the Missouri River water depth on April 17, 1952

Don Palmquist on the phone discussing sandbagging efforts on April 18, 1952

City officials consulting with Red Cross workers on April 20, 1952

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.
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