Browse Items (7753 total)
Sort by:
Flood of 1952 File #1
The women also serve and not only in relief agency kitchens. These women are right there with the men, filling sandbags at the 'factory' near the South Omaha Bridge Road. Working are Jean Crawford of Omaha, Alfred Coffelt, Marjorie Smith, Wilma Moore…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Silhouette Of Power on the city's levees is this giant diesel-powered earth mover. One of 10 on the job, it hauls 30 cubic yards of dirt at a time, is used to tear down a high bluff and spread dirt for city's emergency secondary levee system.
Flood of 1952 File #1
Water stretching Bluff-To-Bluff is no idle phrase. This lonely road a half-mile south of Highway 275 ends in flood water, has only one vehicle - an army engineer truck- at its end. Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick calls it the greatest flood ever seen by the…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs -- To care for children who had measles, mumps and whooping cough, the Red Cross established an isolation shelter for Missouri River flood evacuees. Here, Red Cross nurse Frances Zimmerman, a volunteer Red Cross nurse, who in normal…
Flood of 1952 File #1
There's continuous activity in the Red Cross Evacuation Control Center at Council Bluffs, Iowa - heart of the Red Cross operation to care for the temporarily homeless residents of the threatened Iowa city. Here, evacuees are registered and plans made…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- The problem of shelter and feeding evacuees in flood embattled Council Bluffs rests on the shoulders of these four men, three of whom are volunteers of the Pottawattamie County Chapter of the Red Cross. Left to right are…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- School age evacuees at Red Cross shelters in the Council Bluffs flood threat are proved with recreation to help them pass the time while they await the outcome of the flood. Planned recreation includes baseball for the boys.…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross volunteer Winona Coker, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, as she reads and amuses some young flood victims. Photo was taken in the Abraham Lincoln High School, which is now serving as a Red Cross emergency…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Evacuees from the low-lying area of Council Bluffs, who are being housed in Red Cross shelters while the threat of a dike break is still imminent, are all checked for possible illnesses before they are placed in centers. Here,…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- The aged, as well as younger evacuees, received aid during the flood threat to this city. Elderly evacuees were housed in a special shelter set-up in Eagles Hall. Here Red Cross nurse Mrs. Mae Owens, places a blanket over Mrs.…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Red Cross nurses and nurses aids from the Pottawattamie County Chapter of the American Red Cross were on duty at 21 shelters during and after the evacuation of thousands of homes in the residential section of this city. Here…
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Television in Red Cross centers in Council Bluffs, Iowa during the flood threat helped break the long hours of semi-confinement for young evacuees.
Flood of 1952 File #1
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Photo shows Red Cross Volunteer, Mrs. Verna Davis, as she serves lunch to flood victims in the Red Cross disaster office in this city.
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…
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 . . . 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, 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
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
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
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…