Rivers

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.

This news photo, transmitted by the Associated Press, shows the Missouri River flood waters in the Omaha, Nebraska-Council Bluffs, Iowa area. In the foreground is the Union Pacific Railroad bridge.

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.

A boat and several buildings next to the river near Alexandria, Egypt.

A group of unidentified men are walking by a river near Alexandria, Egypt.

Color snapshot of a boat on the Nile at Cairo, Egypt, taken on the way back from Edwin Locke's third mission to China. Similar to photo 2009-2764.

Color snapshot of a boat on the Nile taken during Edwin Locke's visit to Cairo on the way back from his third mission to China. Similar to photo 2009-6762.

Photo taken from a captured German soldier of devastation near a river in Stalingrad, Russia during World War II. This series includes photos 2009-2671 to 2009-2713 and 2009-2735, 2009-2736.

Men of the First Battalion, 35th Regiment, 25th Infantry Division cross the Han River in Korea in an assault boat. This is from an album of photos of a visit by Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to the Far Eastern Theater.

One of the prospective dam-sites in Ichang Gorge. A view looking up-stream at a site personally inspected by Dr. John L. Savage and party in August, 1944. Riverbank seen between the faces of the gorge in the background holds to settlement and Army garrison of Shipai, Hupeh Province. Original 4 x 4 inch negative included.