1948 Press Photo Mr Mrs Loran Asleson & family, homeless after Vanport, OR flood

At Red Cross HQ in Portland, Oregon. Kids are Sheila, Linda. 30000 made homeless by flood. Vanport was dramatically destroyed at 4:05 p.m. on May 30, 1948, when a 200-foot (61 m) section of the dike holding back the Columbia River collapsed during a flood, killing 15. The city was underwater by nightfall leaving its inhabitants homeless. The Vanport Extension Center refused to close after this disaster and quickly reopened in downtown Portland. Dubbed by a national magazine "The College that Wouldn't Die," it became present-day Portland State University.

Photo is dated 1948.

Photo measures 7.25 x 9.25 inches.