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Title: Hannibal Bridge
Description: Looking northwest from the south side of the Missouri River during unidentified flood.
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

Title: Railroad tracks along Kaw River
Description: Santa Fe main line tracks between the Kaw River and the adjacent bluffs, looking east from the 7th Street Bridge. Photograph is part of proposed flood control projects to raise levees and railroad tracks along the Kaw River.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders on Tour
Description: Exterior view identified as Joe Sanders in front and Carl Nordberg standing beside Joe's Buick on the way to Oklahoma City to perform. Oil derricks can be seen in the background. Exact location not given. Group encountered flood conditions on the trip.
Date: 1923-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Carleton Coon and Other Members of the Nighthawks
Description: Exterior view, on a road in Oklahoma and identified from left to right as Carleton Coon, Carl Nordberg, Pop Estep, and Harry Williams. The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks on their way to Oklahoma City to perform. The group had just been through flood conditions on the way. Sanders in his scrapbook captions the photo: "Just out of Tulsa with the first firm ground which our feet had touched since Joplin."
Date: 1923-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 47th and Main Intersection
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th and Main Streets circa 1987. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. The Plaza Tennis Center courts are visible in the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southmoreland and Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking southeast from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), across 47th Street toward the UMKC campus circa 1987. The Hilton Plaza Inn, at 1 West 45th, occupies the bottom left corner of the image, and numerous residential buildings are pictured lining 47th Street. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 47th and Main Intersection
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th and Main Streets. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. The Plaza Tennis Center courts are visible in the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street and J. C. Nichols Parkway at 47th Street
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th Street with J. C. Nichols Parkway (at right) and Main Street (at left). Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, southeast diagonally across Main Street. Nichols Fountain, in Mill Creek Park, is visible at the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s. South Plaza apartment and office buildings are visible in the background of the image, with Country Club Plaza commercial and residential buildings in the foreground right.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 47th and Main Intersection
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th and Main Streets. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. The Plaza Tennis Center courts are visible in the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Vietnamese Refugees at Don Bosco Community Center
Description: Interior view of a woman holding an infant and other Vietnamese refugees taken inside of the Don Bosco Community Center.
Date: 1975-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bottoms Flooded By Missouri River
Description: View north from the Great Western Bridge in the bottoms of Kansas City, Kansas being flooded by the Missouri River.
Date: 1915-07-18
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flooded Residential Area
Description: Unidentified flooded residential area.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Burlington, Kansas
Description: Flooded business district in Burlington, Kansas.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Burlington, Kansas
Description: Flooded business district in Burlington, Kansas. Post Office in view and clothing business with M. Seelig over the door.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Bottoms Buildings
Description: View looking northwest of the rear side of buildings along 8th Street west of its intersection with Madison Avenue. The J.G. Peppard Seeds, Loose-Wiles Cracker and Candy Company, and Faultless Starch Company buildings. A train is also in view on flooded railroad tracks.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: John Thiell Kissing Dry Ground
Description: Exterior view of Nighthawks member John Thiell bending down to kiss the dry ground. The Nighthawks were trying to get to Oklahoma City in June of 1923, but encountered flooding conditions. Sanders in his scrapbook captions the photo: "John Thiell devoutly kissing the pavement after battling mud and water for three days. The day preceding we traveled all day and when night came we had covered seven miles."
Date: 1923
Object Type: Photograph

Title: R.E.M. Des Islets
Description: Portrait of Colonel R.E.M. Des Islets, U.S. Army District Engineer of Kansas City, Missouri. Des Islets spoke to the South Central Business Association on June 1, 1943, about proposals to President Franklin D. Roosevelt by the "army engineers" (precursor to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) being made at that time to prevent flooding of the Missouri River.
Date: 1943~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: A woman sits at a desk. The caption on the bottom left corner identifies her as Tess Flood.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. George's Hospital
Description: Full photograph of St. George's Contagious Disease Hospital which was built on a barge in 1889. The boat was hauled to the shore near the Monarch Vinegar Works to have the bottom caulked. An island in the Missouri River used for the quarantine and treatment of smallpox patients known as "Pest House Island" had been destroyed by flooding in 1887, and residents subsequently protested the construction of an inland facility on Raytown Road. The "floating pest house" pictured was used as a replacement. Man on the end at the left of the barge is Keeper, James McLain. Others identified in the photograph are Charles Miller, Albert, Charles Brewer, and W.S. White.
Date: 1889-07
Object Type: Photograph

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