Traffic escaping Vanport flood

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bb014261

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Traffic escaping Vanport flood

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  • 1948-05-30 (Creation)

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photograph; photographic prints; 4x5 in

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A line of cars parked on Denver Avenue in Vanport, Oregon. The drivers abandoned their cars on the road and fled on foot after a traffic jam blocked their exits. Pedestrians are visible on the road attempting to escape the rising flood waters during the Vanport flood.

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Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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  • eng

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Photographs of Vanport, Oregon, circa 1948; Org. Lot 1364

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