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City officials checking the Missouri River water depth on April 17, 1952

City officials at the Red Cross Communicaitons Center on April 17, 1952

Sand truck convoy on the levee in Council Bluffs, April 14, 1952

A truck is loaded with household items during the flood evacuation on April 13, 1952

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…

Only The Top . . . of the entrace to the school gym is visible as the Modale school begins to fill with water.

Some 10,000 Empty Sandbags . . . are stored at city hall. Looking over bags are Patrolman C.J. Turpen and Maurice Katelman. A total of 210,000 bags will be on hand for emergency use.

An overturned truck on the levee is a casualty of the Missouri River flood prevention efforts

City officials discussing flood efforts

The North Levee in Council Bluffs, IA
April 1952

Willard White and Orville Athen begin swabbing out their implement store at Hamburg.

Fill Earth Bags . . . Employees of the City Ice Company fill earth bags on Gibraltar for possible flood protection around the plant at Tenth Avenue and Twelfth Street.

1990 Yearbook (annual) of Underwood High School.

1991 Yearbook (annual) of Underwood High School.

1992 Yearbook (annual) of Underwood High School.

1993 Yearbook (annual) of Underwood High School.

1994 Yearbook (annual) of Underwood High School.

Polk's Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie County, Iowa) City Directory, 1934.

Volume XLI.

Containing an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of householders, occupants of office buildings and other business…

Polk's Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie County, Iowa) City Directory, 1935.

Volume XLII.

Containing an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of householders, occupants of office buildings and other business…

Polk's Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie County, Iowa) City Directory, 1936.

Volume XLIII.

Containing an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of householders, occupants of office buildings and other business…
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