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Title: 1993 Flood
Description: File contains information pertaining to the 1993 Missouri River flood.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Missouri River and riverfront area; also shows docked riverboat.
Date: 1903
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Missouri River and riverfront area; also shows docked riverboat.
Date: 1903
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1903 Flood, Hannibal Bridge
Description: Postcard of the Hannibal Bridge during the 1903 flood.
Date: 1903
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 1908 Flood, Morris Packing Plant
Description: Postcard of the Morris Packing Plant in the West Bottoms in Kansas City, Kansas, during the 1908 flood.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Postcard

Title: The Task of Flood Control
Description: Article explaining the need for a centrally organized system of flood control for the Missouri River valley, for "irrigation, hydro-electric power, domestic and industrial water supplies, navigation and facilities for recreation," and the political barriers to such an agency.
Date: 1952-05-23
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Senator Seaton on Flood Control
Description: Interview of "Senator Seaton" on flood control of the Missouri River, with questions regarding the efficiency of the project in protecting America's agricultural "bread basket" with dams.
Date: 1952-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 1908 Flood, 1st Street and Kansas Avenue
Description: Postcard of the 1908 Flood showing 1st Street and Kansas Avenue in Armourdale, Kansas.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 1908 Flood, Missouri River near Weston
Description: Postcard of the Missouri River near Weston during the 1908 Flood
Date: 1908-06
Object Type: Postcard

Title: P39 Army Corps of Engineers 1993 Flood Photographs Finding Aid
Description: The Army Corps of Engineers 1993 Flood Photographs collection includes 21 color photographs of the flood that occurred between July 10 and August 25, 1993.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: KC-area Levees Protect, But They Take Lots of Time, Money
Description: Kansas City's eight federal levees are located at Argentine, Armourdale, Birmingham, Central Industrial District, East Bottoms, Fairfax-Jeresey, North Kansas City, and Riverside. The article gives a brief history of levee construction and projects over the years.
Date: 2011-08-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Correction
Description: Correction to the April 26, 1952, article by Richard G. Baumhoff in The Nation magazine, notably the editing mistake about the author's comments on the part of the Missouri River valley affected by the 1951 flood and the governmental needs of the area.
Date: 1952-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Perspective: Domesticating Big Mo
Description: Editorial essay about the need for cooperation of flood control agencies by the federal and local levels of government in order to prevent repeated disasters like the 1951 flood for area cities, buildings, and agriculture.
Date: 1953-04-16
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Misery on the Missouri
Description: Article about the frequent recent flooding of the Missouri River with a table showing the chronology of its 10 floods in the 10 years from 1943 to 1952 and resulting damages. Related information on the proposed Missouri Valley Authority and Pick-Sloan Plan and President Harry Truman's opposition to them, etc.
Date: 1952-04-28
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Dam the Missouri Floods!
Description: Brief article about the proposed engineering project on the Missouri River to be regulated by its own comprehensive federal agency, covering flood control, electrical energy, soil conservation, navigation, and irrigation, with map.
Date: 1952-04-26
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Wild Missouri: The Great River Is a Moody, Violent Source of Despair--and Hope
Description: Extensive article about the history of flood control efforts on the Missouri River and its huge drainage basin, an area "one sixth of [the] total area of [the] continental U. S.," with maps, illustrations, photos. Gives descriptions of disasters from the 1930s droughts and the 1951 flood.
Date: 1950-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Big Magic for the Big Muddy
Description: Photos, map, illustrations, and article about the plans for flood prevention, navigation, and irrigation on the Missouri River Valley and directly affecting Kansas City. Mention of "the teeming war industry plants of Kansas City," Kansas City Star anti-"reclamationists," the Army Corps of Engineers, and the proposed Missouri Valley Authority, etc.
Date: 1944-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Easy Chair: Our Hundred Year Plan
Description: Article on the progress of flood control projects on the Missouri River, with doubts about the efficiency in such projects upstream from Kansas City because of high costs and dryness and low population density of land far to the west.
Date: 1950-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Regions: Missouri Valley Project Goes On while Politicians Debate
Description: Article about the federal and private flood control projects on the Missouri River watershed, with a map of dam sites, photos. Includes discussion on the hyroelectric power and other benefits to be gained with the modifications, such as flood control, soil conservation, navigation, and so forth. Description also of the political debates over property rights and the competing Pick-Sloan and Hope-Aiken plans.
Date: 1954-03-20
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Wild Missouri: A New Race of Pioneers Braves the Ancient Highway to the West
Description: Article condensed from the "Prairie Schooner," about the "wild Missouri" River and its unstable history since the Lewis and Clark expedition, on a trip on barge from Saint Louis, through Kansas City, to Omaha, with illustrations.
Date: 1955-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

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