Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›8-Flood Reaches S.Dak. Capitol: This aerial picture shows the city of Fort Pierre S.Dak. as if nesting in a pond with the Bad River Bridge in the foreground surrounded by water from the rampaging Missouri which is rapidly reaching the highest stage in seventy-one years.
8-Flood Reaches S.Dak. Capitol: This aerial picture shows the city of Fort Pierre S.Dak. as if nesting in a pond with the Bad River Bridge in the foreground surrounded by water from the rampaging Missouri which is rapidly reaching the highest stage in seventy-one years.
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8-Flood Reaches S.Dak. Capitol: This aerial picture shows the city of Fort Pierre S.Dak. as if nesting in a pond with the Bad River Bridge in the foreground surrounded by water from the rampaging Missouri which is rapidly reaching the highest stage in seventy-one years.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1952]

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[Information from item housing] Floods: 1952: Wire Photos

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