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Children playing with a puppy on April 14, 1952

A nurse tends to children with chicken pox on April 16, 1952

A man overlooks the flooding Missouri River on April 17, 1952

Volunteers are preparing food to distribute to levee workers on April 17, 1952

Sorting mail on April 17, 1952

A young girl is keeping herself entertained at a flood evacuation center on April 17, 1952

Storekeeper A.E. Hill surveys 500 regular telephones and 100 pay phones removed from evacuated areas and placed in temporary storage in a local garage on April 18, 1952

A man protects equipment at Howard Plastics on April 19, 1952

A tugboat moves a barge on the flooded Missouri River on April 19, 1952

Volunteers prepare sandwiches for levee workers on April 20, 1952

Sandbags surround radio station KSWI on April 20, 1952

City officials on April 20, 1952

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A Salvation Army worker provides a meal to children at a flood evacuation center on April 20, 1952

A woman reads with her children on April 21, 1952

Girl Scouts doing laundry April 23, 1952

No Visible Support . . . is provided where 10 feet of Illinois Central roadbed is missing beneath this motor car at edge of a tretle near Pigeon Creek. Frank Servia, Omaha, is on trestle.

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.

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

The North Levee in Council Bluffs, IA
April 1952
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