Evacuation Center -- Cots fill the gymnasium at the Abraham Lincoln High School, Council Bluffs, Iowa, yesterday, furnishing a haven for Council Bluffs residents evacuated from the low-lying section of the city threatened by the rising waters of the Missouri river. Women and children while away the time as their menfolk man the levees and aid in other volunteer work in the flood-threatened city.

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Title:
Evacuation Center -- Cots fill the gymnasium at the Abraham Lincoln High School, Council Bluffs, Iowa, yesterday, furnishing a haven for Council Bluffs residents evacuated from the low-lying section of the city threatened by the rising waters of the Missouri river. Women and children while away the time as their menfolk man the levees and aid in other volunteer work in the flood-threatened city.
Description:
[Information from item housing] Floods: 1952: Wire Photos
Photographer:
Associated Press
Name on Item:
AP
Date:
[ca. April 1952]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
Subjects:
Floods
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 152 x 255 mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wh249t17c
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
All rights reserved.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title(s) from item.
[Additional information from item] Floods - Refugees
Preferred Citation:
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue, Boston Public Library
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Boston University, College of Communication, 1977/1978.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
22_10_001170_0017
Barcode:
39999088103237