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Vanport Parents Reuniting with Lost Son. 1948

Y-480603A-1. Trinity Episcopal Church was one of eleven churches, schools and halls that provided housing for displaced Vanport residents on the first night of the flood. Mrs. Maggie Bullier had rescued a sixteen month-old baby boy from Vanport, and tended him for two days at the church. The first of these photos show Mrs. Bullier taking care of the infant at the church, and the second shows the parents picking up their lost son from Mrs. Bullier. (It is unfortunate that we have no record of the names of the Vanport family.

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Y-480603A-1. Trinity Episcopal Church was one of eleven churches, schools and halls that provided housing for displaced Vanport residents on the first night of the flood. Mrs. Maggie Bullier had rescued a sixteen month-old baby boy from Vanport, and tended him for two days at the church. The first of these photos show Mrs. Bullier taking care of the infant at the church, and the second shows the parents picking up their lost son from Mrs. Bullier. (It is unfortunate that we have no record of the names of the Vanport family.