{"id":113,"date":"2008-04-28T19:49:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T00:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=113"},"modified":"2014-01-15T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:50:21","slug":"a-flood-of-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2008\/04\/28\/a-flood-of-images\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flood of Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of this year’s flooding (which surprised us<\/a> as much as anyone), we pulled a few of our images of\u00a0Floods Past\u00a0from our Historical Photograph Collections<\/a>\u00a0for your enjoyment:<\/p>\n

\u00a0The 1940s:<\/span><\/h4>\n

This photos were taken during the same flood in\u00a0the early 1940s.\u00a0 There were three to choose from: ’43, ’43,\u00a0or ’44.<\/p>\n

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High and dry in the sky . . . until we land.<\/em><\/p>\n

This aerial photo was taken from an airplane above the west end of Davenport.
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The Mississippi come up to say Hello!<\/em><\/p>\n

This\u00a0image\u00a0shows the river slowly creeping over\u00a0the levy into LeClaire Park.<\/p>\n

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Watch out for the water hazard!<\/em><\/p>\n

Credit Island Gold Course shrank to several holes less than the full 18 as the water rose higher.<\/p>\n

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1965:<\/span><\/h4>\n

The flood of 1965 was called the “Flood of the Century” and the “Great Flood,” at least until 1993 came along.<\/p>\n

\"Aerial<\/p>\n

Robin Hood Island<\/em><\/p>\n

The Robin Hood Flour Mills were surrounded by the Mississippi River in the spring of 1965.<\/p>\n

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When escaping a flood, always remember to turn off the lights before leaving.<\/em><\/p>\n

A lone figure wades back towards Robin Hood Flour in this river-level view.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Municipal Swimming Pool<\/em><\/p>\n

A rooftop view of the efforts to keep Davenport on the shallow end.<\/p>\n

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Hey–your pumping truck is\u00a0in a No Parking Zone!<\/em><\/p>\n

Eagle Signal\u00a0\u00a0does a valiant job of keeping\u00a0736 Federal Street from going under.<\/p>\n

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Our friend the sandbag.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 700 block of Federal Street\u00a0shows that floods don’t always win.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Stay tuned–we will share more of our\u00a0historical images in future posts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of this year’s flooding (which surprised us as much as anyone), we pulled a few of our images of\u00a0Floods Past\u00a0from our Historical Photograph Collections\u00a0for your enjoyment: \u00a0The 1940s: This photos were taken during the same flood in\u00a0the early … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[367,89,319,202,287],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history","tag-floods","tag-mississippi-river","tag-photographs","tag-weather","tag-weather-records"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-1P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}