Floods

President Harry S. Truman uses binoculars to look out the window of his airplane. The three other men in the picture are unidentified. This photo was taken during an aerial tour of areas effected by the flooding of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

Grain storage bins and storage sheds near Blencoe, Iowa are completely surrounded by muddy water from the flooding of the Missouri River.

Flood water from the Missouri River reaches near the top of a levee in Omaha, Nebraska. Behind the levee is the American Smelting and Refining Company building, well below the present water level.

Flood damage to the Sherwood-McElroy Lumber Company in Iowa due to flooding of the Missouri River.

A flooded street near Percival, Iowa, showing damage from a flood of the Missouri River. A motorboat can be seen in the lower left corner of the image.

Men from the Middle State Utilities Company working on a boat to repair power lines damaged by the Missouri River flood, somewhere near Sioux City, Iowa. All men are unidentified.

The town of McPaul, Iowa flooded by the Missouri River.

Damage done to Theodore Schooley's home near McPaul, Iowa, during flooding of the Missouri River.

Sand around the building and farm of Orville Sonner, near the dike break on Plum Creek, Iowa.

This photo shows damage to drainage a ditch, south of Highway 2, caused by flooding of the Missouri River.