Taking a Break--Wearing an old GI cap, a raincoat and a pair of muddy boots, Pat Murphy, 23-year-old medical student at Creighton University, rests on a pile of dirt as she takes a break while working on the levee last night. In the background a man lies on a pile of sandbags to relax. Volunteers manned the weak points along the dikes throughout the night in an effort to stave off the waters of the flooding Missouri river.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1952]

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