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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: In the Wake of the Floods
Description: Article about the flood control projects of the Pick-Sloan plan, a federal program set up before the 1951 flood but not built in time to prevent disasters caused along the Kansas and Missouri Rivers in 1951, with photos.
Date: 1951-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: How to Stop Floods: Answers from General Pick, Top Man for River Control
Description: Interview of "General Lewis Pick, Chief of the Army's Corps of Engineers and coauthor of the Pick-Sloan Plan for harnessing the Missouri" River, with his answers on how to stop the floods of the Missouri River Basin, highlighting the 1951 flood, with photos and large illustrated map.
Date: 1952-04-25
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Flooded River Areas
Description: Aerial view of flooded areas in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flooded River Area
Description: Aerial view of barges and flooding surrounding the Midwest Terminal Warehouse Co., #3 Building during the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: City Market Area and Kansas City Skyline
Description: View across the Missouri River of the City Market area from the north side of the ASB Bridge during high waters from the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flooded Area
Description: Aerial view of the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood; shows Municipal Airport and Swift packing facilities.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: ASB Bridge and City Market Area
Description: View facing south along the side of the ASB Bridge; shows Missouri River, City Market area and part of the Downtown skyline in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph