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Flood of 1952
Loading sandbags.
Flood of 1952
Two men moving boxes.
Flood of 1952
Unidentified men examining a map.
Flood of 1952
Woman checking on dogs.
Flood of 1952
Group of men watching a card game.
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Flood Emergency - G.S.\
Col. Person and B/Gen. Chorpening (OCE) inspecting the levee.
Council Bluffs - 14th St. Levee
Col. Person and B/Gen. Chorpening (OCE) inspecting the levee.
Council Bluffs - 14th St. Levee
Flood of 1952 File #1
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…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross Disaster worker Lillian McKinnon, of the mid-western area, as she hands an emergency message to Mr. Leo Meyerson, in the Red Cross disaster office in this city. Mr. Myerson is the communications…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs -- Here Mobile Radio Unit operates as the intersection of 21st Street and Avenue C. A dispatcher at the left makes a record of the street address and directs a volunteer trucker to the home.
(Photo courtesy of Strohbehn Studio,…
(Photo courtesy of Strohbehn Studio,…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Petersen . . . pack their dishes before evacuating their new home in Midland Manor.
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross Nurse, Lorraine Thomas, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as she takes pulse and temp. of Mrs. Carrie Ives, 92 years old, who was an ambulance case. Picture was taken in the Iowa Home For The Deaf which is now…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Dr. E.O. Bean and Mrs. Anna Lainson, Red Cross nurse, examine Stevie Wood, 9 months old, held by his mother, Mrs. Georgia Wood, in Danish Hall, an emergency Red Cross shelter at Council Bluffs. The child was injured in an accident at the family home,…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Wholesale evacuation of Council Bluffs' flood-threatened residents to 23 Red Cross shelters posed a number of problems -- not the least of which is that of clean clothes for refugees. And it's a problem the Red Cross is ready for. Two of its…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross volunteers, Mrs. A.R. Hettinger and Mrs. A.E. Gaddis, both of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as they serve lunch to flood victims in the Red Cross disaster office in this city.
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . The American Red Cross is right on the job in serving thousands of dike workers along the waterfront of this city. Photo shows Richard Fahrenkrog, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as he receives some coffee from Red Cross…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs -- This photograph shows volunteers from an Omaha company loading furniture into a boxcar on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul railroad. The trucks came from all types of concerns within a radius of 100 miles from Council Bluffs.
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross volunteer, Winona Coker, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as she combs the hair of Gaylene Wolter, as this young flood victim plays with paper dolls. Her friend (on left) Charlotte McCoy is also busy playing…