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  • Y-480530-08. Survivors on N. Denver Avenue escape the Vanport Flood. May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480530-06. Survivors gather on high ground to watch the destruction of Vanport. May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480530-02.  “A man in a suit and hat carries a baby girl. His wife walks just behind him to his right. They are David Kizer, 32, and Ruth Kizer, 19. He carries their daughter, Barbara, 11 days shy of 1 year. They and others walk with a determined stride on North Denver Avenue.” (excerpt of caption published in the Oregonian, May 24, 1998, page M2.) May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480616A-01.  Vanport victims in temporary housing at Guilds Lake. June 16, 1948
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  • Y-480603A-3. Red Cross helping feed and house Flood evacuees at  Civic Auditorium. June 3, 1948
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  • Y-480530-18. Survivors in a refugee center. May 30, 1948
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  • Y-480530-17.  Red Cross workers register the names of survivors. May 30, 1948
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  • Y-480530-01. Three survivors, including a boy clinging to man, wade through waist-deep water at Entrance Circle in Vanport. The man carrying the boy is Roy Ludwig. The boy is Earl Woods, age 5.  May 30, 1948.
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  • Vanport Flood refugees receive medical treatment at Swan Island. 1948
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  • Y-480616A-03 Vanport victims in temporary housing at Guilds Lake. June 16, 1948
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  • Y-480603A-2. 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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