Removal of sandbags in order to release flood water in East Omaha Flood of 1943
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Typhoid inoculations at Manawa following the Flood of 1943
Group of unidentified boys in front of Abraham Lincoln High School.
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 from Red Cross canteen worker, Howard Wolhner; looking on are other dike workers.
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 compelled to leave their homes because of the threat of the Missouri River flood.
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 threatened area near the Missouri River dike.
Flood Emergency - G.S.\ Col. Person and B/Gen. Chorpening (OCE) inspecting the levee. Council Bluffs - 14th St. Levee
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 western section of Council Bluffs, being entertained by volunteers in the Red Cross Shelter in the Christian Church. Mrs. Ira Hays, Red Cross Grey Lady, looks on as Mrs. Bertha Bachlor, a nurses aid, reads to the small fry.