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Troops Unload Equipment
Unloading of the three state liquor trucks was proceeding at a brisk pace with four company K Red Oak men, upper row, Pvt. D.C. Johnson and Pvt. Dean Dutton, and Pvt. Dana Fuller, and Pvt. Victor Peterson, bottom, helping with the blankets.
Quick Start At Old Army Game
The old army game had already started at the Armory Saturday morning as three men from the Fairfield detachment, Jack Zierlien, John Hay, and Frank R. Danielson, settle down in a corner to guard some of the medical division's equipment.
Carter Lake, Iowa
Carter Lake sign, with Neighborhood Watch sign below it
C.L. set to discuss water plan
A proposal before the Metropolitan Planning Agency would add $75,000 in improvements to the Carter Lake water system to service Owen Parkway West, a business office complex in the southern part of the city. The improvements would also open the area…
A shift in the Missouri and, voilá, Carter Lake
At right is the architects', How/Nelson Associates of Omaha, drawing of the planned brick, steel, and glass building. [headquarters of Owen Industries] Groundbreaking for the project is scheduled fro early October. [Photo by Steve Glowacki]
A shift in the Missouri and, voilá, Carter Lake
What is now a large pile of dirt on the outskirts of Carter Lake is the first phase of a major commercial development. In September, Edward Owen, chairman of the board of Paxton & Vierling Steel Co. in Carter Lake, announced construction plans fora…
A shift in the Missouri and, voilà, Carter Lake
The 118-acre Carter Lake provides fishing and recreational opportunities--and a scenic backdrop--for Carter Lake and area residents. Paved walkways and wooden bridges facilitate pedestrian traffic around the lake which was formed as an ox-bow of the…
Pumping Station Is Secured
Completely sand-bagged against the threat of Missouri river flood water is the Council Bluffs waterworks pumping station, located just a few feet away from the stream. Pumping equipment inside the station is located in deep concrete pits, well below…
Where River Cut Through Road
Several hours after the rising of flood water of the Missouri rolled over a county road at the Narrows, north of the city limits, scores of acres between the highway and the Illinois Central railroad (right center) were inundated. The flood water…
Thomas Jefferson Students Respond
Part of the crew of over 100 Thomas Jefferson high school students who Wednesday responded to the call of the city for volunteer help to aid in filling bags and building up the west-end Missouri river levee. A like number from Abraham Lincoln high…
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Typhoid inoculations at Manawa following the Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Loading trucks with sand
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Hamburg, IA
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Removal of sandbags in order to release flood water in East Omaha
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Sandbagged road near the Missouri River
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Men filling sandbags
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Mr. and Mrs Bill Tyson, flood victims, muse over hat that once was new.
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943