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Flood of 1952 File #3
Red Cross evacuation center at Abraham Lincoln High School
Flood of 1952 File #3
Red Cross evacuation center at Abraham Lincoln High School
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Sandbagging
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Nighttime sandbagging
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Reading to children at a Red Cross evacuation center
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Checking the levee on the Missouri River
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Missouri River floodwaters threaten Omaha businesses
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Local evacuation center shelters flood evacuees
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Flood prevention efforts along the levee
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NW Railroad officials surveying the tracks
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Sandbagging efforts
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Sandbagging efforts along the Missouri River
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The North Levee, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Flood of 1952 File #3
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Making 5,000 sandwiches a day and hundreds of hot meals falls on the shoulders of more than 100 Council Bluffs housewives, a group of whom are shown here at work in the Moose Hall commissary, working as Red Cross…
Flood of 1952 File #3
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross volunteer, Mrs. B. Balaban, residing at 900 North 8th St., Council Bluffs, Iowa, assists PFC Willard Dickerson, Co. Headquarters, 199th Engineers, in moving a case of freshly made sandwiches out of Moose Hall…
Flood of 1952 File #3
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Miss Shirleymae Hendrix, a Red Cross volunteer residing at 1649 Madison Ave., Council Bluffs, Iowa, prepares freshly made soup in the kitchen of Moose Hall, which is one of the main food preparation centers in this area. …
Flood of 1952 File #3
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Working under the banner of the Red Cross, women of the Broadway Methodist Church in Council Bluffs prepared hot meals for flood evacuees in the church basement and served evacuees and dike workers in the church basement…
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Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Story telling keeps small children happy in Red Cross disaster shelters. Miss Sue Olsen, student at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, helps amuse six young evacuees.
Flood of 1952 File #3
Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross volunteer, Mrs. Charles Milner, Council Bluffs, calls upon Levee worker Mr. Ben Myatt, 625 Pierce St., Omaha, NE, to take a sample of her freshly made soup. Mr. Myatt is one of the thousands of volunteer workers…
Flood of 1952 File #3
A human chain passes sandbags along at the North Levee in Council Bluffs.