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Title: Flood Scene
Description: View looking north along Walnut Street from 6th Street during a 1908 flood. The Missouri River can be seen in the distance. Several downtown buildings are in view. Signs for the New Nelson building, the Henry House hotel, and the Clay Auction Company can be seen.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Distant view, looking north, of Intercity Viaduct.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: View looking north along Walnut from 6th Street.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Distant view, looking west, of Intercity Viaduct.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: View, looking north, of Intercity Viaduct.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Close-up view of unidentified bridge.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: View, looking northeast, of Intercity Viaduct.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: View along 8th Street in West Bottoms.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Unidentified men and women posed with rowboat before Fairbanks, Morse, and Company at 1217 Union Avenue in West Bottoms.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Full frontal and side view of Bemis Brothers Bag Company, located at 925 Wyoming Street in the West Bottoms.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Full frontal and side view of Bemis Brothers Bag Company, located at 925 Wyoming Street in the West Bottoms.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1903 Flood
Description: Story of the anticipation and preparation of the flood and the narrow escape as it struck.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Report on the Flood of 1908 in the Kaw River with Recommendations as to Control of Flood Waters
Description: Analysis of flood conditions and preventative measures.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Floods in the Missouri River
Description: Article about the history of floods on the lower Missouri River (written by a steamboat pilot on the river) and its tributaries, with descriptions of the effects on the Kansas City area during several specific floods such as the 1724 flood (at Sainte Genevieve), the 1785 flood (at Saint Louis), the 1826 flood, the 1844 flood, the 1903 flood, and the 1908 flood.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Photo and bio of William Knepp, a railroad and electrical industry executive and co-organizer of the Intercity Viaduct. Description of his life and career, born in Pennsylvania in 1858 and coming to Kansas City in 1879. "[E]ngaged in the grain commission business until 1902" and after the 1903 flood "engaged in promoting Inter-Urban Electric Railways and power plants," as well as becomng "secretary of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Excelsior Springs Railway Company" and "the Mid-Continent Refrigerating Company" of Kansas City, with residence at 100 East 34th Street.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 1]
Description: Volume one of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 3]
Description: Volume three of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 2]
Description: Volume two of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Manual High School Yearbook - The Nautilus
Description: Yearbook for the 1908 class of Manual High School.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Yearbook