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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
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
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
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
Twenty-Two Dozen Doughnuts are fried in deep fat every hour for levee workers at Dodge school. Workers are Mrs. Ralph C. Russell and Mrs. Frances Lewis.
Flood of 1952 File #1
All's Quiet And The Levees Hold but the raging Missouri has driven some machinery to high ground. Ralph Den of Bellevue looks over some stranded equipment as he goes by boat to a Northern Natural Gas Company station south of Iowa School for the Deaf.
Flood of 1952 File #1
Last Missouri River Devastation in Southwest Iowa is at Hamburg. Water rushed onto the town from a break in the Plum Creek levee 15 miles to the north. Here residents keep just ahead of the creeping water as they place last-minute bulwarks against…
Flood of 1952 File #1
City officials consulting with Red Cross workers on April 20, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #1
Don Palmquist on the phone discussing sandbagging efforts on April 18, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #1
City officials checking the Missouri River water depth on April 17, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #1
City officials at the Red Cross Communicaitons Center on April 17, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #1
Sand truck convoy on the levee in Council Bluffs, April 14, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #1
A truck is loaded with household items during the flood evacuation on April 13, 1952
Flood of 1952 File #1
An overturned truck on the levee is a casualty of the Missouri River flood prevention efforts
Flood of 1952 File #1
City officials discussing flood efforts
Flood of 1952 File #1
The North Levee in Council Bluffs, IA
April 1952
April 1952
Flood of 1952 File #1
Willard White and Orville Athen begin swabbing out their implement store at Hamburg.
Flood of 1952 File #1 and File #5
Theater Closes . . . Manager Allan Schrimpf hangs a closed sign on the Broadway theater Saturday evening. The theater and other business places termed non-essential to the Missouri River flood fight were ordered closed by proclamation of Mayor James…
Flood of 1952 File #1 and File #5
Building Railroad Roadbed . . . is this train and crew on the Illinois Central track near Pigeon Creek. Ballast is in end car. Center cars in worktrain are just "couplings" to keep heavy locomotive from flood-weakened roadbed.
Flood of 1952 File #1 and File #5
Start To Raise Levees . . . on North Eighth street at Big Lake. The large machines must plow through gummy mud to dump their loads. This picture was taken from the bluff east of the levee. In the distance, water is pushing against the level from the…