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Flood of 1952 File #2 and File #5
Rising Waters . . . isolate custodian's house at Big Lake. Overflow has reached floor level at the house and outline of lake has disappeared.
Flood of 1952 File #2 and File #5
Water Creeps In . . . on Dodge pumping station on North Thirty-seventh street. It is nearly to the high mark reached during the 1943 flood.
Flood of 1952 File #2 and File #5
Attempting To Save Corn . . . a dragline is used to erect a dike around the home and farm buildings of State Rep. Harry Nielsen, one-half mile west of Blencoe. Over 10,000 bushels of corn are cribbed at the farm.
Photo courtesy of Hudleson Studio,…
Photo courtesy of Hudleson Studio,…
Flood of 1952 File #2 and File #5
Tugboat Runs On Mosquito Creek . . . near site of Iowa Power and Light Company's new generating plant, on the Missouri River south of Council Bluffs. The tug is used for ferry service to the plant project, now surrounded by flood waters.
Flood of 1952 File #2 and File #5
Under Water Again . . . is this county bridge, one mile south of Onawa, near highway 75. The bridge was raised four feet after the flood two years ago, but water is again running over its floor boards. Two roads at this point have been cut off by the…
Flood of 1952 File #2 and File #5
Sandbag Tracks Through Levee . . . More than 3,500 sandbags are place in the leveel gap near Big Lake where the Illinois Central main line goes north from Council Bluffs. Water has risen to about three feet from the top of the railroad's grade at…
Flood of 1952 File #2
Flooded farmland
April 1952
April 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
Aerial view of sand pit
April 1952
April 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
Surveying the flooded Missouri River
April 1952
April 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2 and File #5
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…
Flood of 1952 File #2
Misplaced beaver near the Missouri River
Flood of 1952 File #2
North Levee, Council Bluffs, IA
April 1952
April 1952
Flood of 1952 File #2
Levee breach on the Missouri River
April 1952
April 1952
Flood of 1952 File #3
What was once a peaceful farm scene is now a picture of destruction as the Missouri River flooded this farm north of Omaha.
Flood of 1952 File #3
Piers for a new highway bridge usually standing on dry ground were subjected to torrents of Missouri River water during the flood.
Flood of 1952 File #3
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.
Flood of 1952 File #3
A human chain passes sandbags along at the North Levee in Council Bluffs.
Flood of 1952 File #3
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross volunteer, Mrs. Charles Milner, Council Bluffs, calls upon Levee worker Mr. Ben Myatt, 625 Pierce St., Omaha, NE, to take a sample of her freshly made soup. Mr. Myatt is one of the thousands of volunteer workers…
Flood of 1952 File #3
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Story telling keeps small children happy in Red Cross disaster shelters. Miss Sue Olsen, student at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, helps amuse six young evacuees.
Flood of 1952 File #3
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Working under the banner of the Red Cross, women of the Broadway Methodist Church in Council Bluffs prepared hot meals for flood evacuees in the church basement and served evacuees and dike workers in the church basement…