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Title: Kansas City...1951
Description: Rehabilitation of utilities after floods in the hard-hit areas of Argentine, Central Industrial area, Armourdale, and Fairfax.
Date: 1951-09
Object Type: Magazine

Title: How Superflood Wrecked Kansas City
Description: Brief account of the flood damage and the city's recovery.
Date: 1951-07-21
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Rivers in a Rage
Description: Illustrations and article about the broadcast of WHB news reporter John Thornberry, surveying the effects of the 1951 flood in Kansas City by airplane.
Date: 1951-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Spirit of Kansas City
Description: File contains a booklet or pamphlet with an illustration (a print of "The Spirit of Kansas City" painting) and description (written by Joyce Hall) of his commissioning of Norman Rockwell to paint a symbol of the "Kansas City Spirit" in the aftermath of the 1951 flood.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Quality Hill and Kersey Coates Drive
Description: View facing northeast of Quality Hill, West Terrace Park, and Kersey Coates Drive in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC165 Mary Lou Eisert Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains photographs showing flood damage to residences and buildings in the Kansas City, Kansas area and a permit for Mary Lou Eisert to enter the flood area to regain property from her residence at 628 S. Coy.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Flooded Area
Description: View looking southwest from the 12th street viaduct of railroad yards in the West Bottoms during the 1951 Flood. In the foreground is the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad freight house, and directly behind is the Gulf Mobile & Ohio freight house, formerly the Chicago & Alton. Also in view is the Santa Fe Freight Station, Western Mill Supply Co., Continental Electric Co., John Deere Plow Co., International Harvester Co., and National Carloading Corp. facilities.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanton's General Store - Leonard Stanton
Description: View of Leonard Stanton posed outside of Stanton's General Store, once located in Holliday (now Shawnee), Kansas. Signs for Royal Crown Cola can be seen.
Date: 1967-01
Object Type: Photograph

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