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Flood of 1952 File #4
Soldiers resting between shifts
Flood of 1952 File #4
Food collection for flood victims
Flood of 1952 File #4
Soldiers await their orders
Flood of 1952 File #4
Baking pies for flood relief workers
Flood of 1952 File #4
Evacuation efforts
Flood of 1952 File #4
Missouri River flooding
Flood of 1952 File #4
Flood relief helpers
Flood of 1952 File #4
Flooding along the Missouri River
Flood of 1952 File #4
Flooding along the Missouri River
Flood of 1952 File #4 and File #5
Protect Right Of Way - Section men for the Illinois Central railroad sandbag the right of way along their line north of Council Bluffs. In most of the area, Missouri River flood water is either standing or running on both sides of the tracks.
Flood of 1952 File #4
Food pantry for flood victims
Flood of 1952 File #4
Filling sandbags
Flood of 1952 File #4
Donald Wessels looks at the pile of sandbags at the basement window of the Blake Mitchell home at 619 North 30th Street. If the water doesn't reach the area, the neighborhood kids will have a heck of a big sandpile to play in.
Iowa State Students Help On Flood
Four of a large group of students who came from Ames to work with other volunteers are shown here hefting sandbags into an army truck at the Golden Horse diner on South Omaha road. Left to right are John Peck of Garner; Leon Kruse of Tipton; Roger…
Labor On To Hold The Water
Omaha, NE, April 18 . . . Night falls on a chain of volunteers as they pass sandbags in an effort to contain the water in several sand boils which uprooted the pavement on Pershing Boulevard in the north section of the city. Floodlights light the…
Flood of 1952 File #4
Smashed paving . . . bears imprint of giant earth-moving machines that scarred city streets during flood fight.
Flood of 1952 File #4
Corp. Gerald Botcher, Houston, MN and PFC Teofilo D. Marinez, Durango, CO, Company A 472 Engineers, Aviation Batallion, rest in Bayliss Park.
Flood of 1952 File #4
Army personnel wash their trucks with fire hoses
Flood of 1952 File #4
Soldiers play cards on makeshift sandbag furniture
Flood of 1952 File #4
Inoculation for measles was an order of the day for small evacuees during the Council Bluffs flood threat. Dr. John Keller of Council Bluffs, who volunteered his services, injects a dose of immune serum globulin while Nurse Regina Riley of Jennie…