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Title: How the Bridge Was Saved
Description: Description of the work of W. S. Carson, "superintendent of terminals," to prevent damage from the flood of 1903 to the Missouri Pacific Bridge, "the only bridge communicating between the two Kansas Citys," using experience as "a veteran railroad man" in Saint Louis with his brother at the Saint Louis Union Station. Mention also of E. A. Gould, "general superintendent of the Missouri Pacific railroad."
Date: 1903-06
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: J. Philip Knoche
Description: Biographical sketch of Dr. J. Philip Knoche, a physician and native of Jackson County, born in 1859 and "reared on the farm in the East Bottom, near Kansas City" before opening his practice here in 1886. Description also of his father, John Knoche, a German distiller emigrating to Jackson County in 1840 and having his partially built distillery destroyed by the 1844 flood and his subsequent ranch and farm destroyed by disease and fire in New Santa Fe, Missouri, before the Civil War, dying in 1887.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Where Are They Now?
Description: Photos and biographical description of John Ferrugia, a former Kansas City television journalist for KCTV-Channel 5, "the station's boy wonder reporter in the late 1970s." Description of his career in Kansas City, winning "a Peabody Award in 1977" involving the 1977 flood at the Plaza, then moving to New York for CBS and covering the Hyatt Regency disaster and international news, then to Denver in 1989.
Date: 1999-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Postcard from Old Kansas City
Description: Article about the Kansas City-Smithville Race Track built in 1925 in Smithville, Missouri.
Date: 1986-06-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: An Interview with Robert Hernandez
Description: Interview 20 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded July 1, 1977. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1977-07-01
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview with Severiano Alonzo
Description: Interview 1 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded August 8, 1980. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape;1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1980-01-01
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview with Jess Barbosa
Description: Interview 2 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded January 20, 1979. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Includes a typed contents list.
Date: 1979-01-20
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview with Dolores Rodriguez
Description: Interview 45 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded August 18, 1978. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Includes typed list of contents.
Date: 1978-08-18
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview with Josefa Parra
Description: Interview 35 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded January 14, 1978. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents. Interview is in Spanish.
Date: 1978-01-14
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview with Catherine Reyes
Description: Interview 41 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded February 28, 1978. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has typed list of contents.
Date: 1978-02-28
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview with Manuela Cruz Lozano
Description: Interview 28 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded July 30, 1978. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has typed list of contents.
Date: 1978-07-30
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview with Marciano Morales
Description: Interview 34 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded April 30, 1977. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1977-04-30
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: Northeast Chamber of Commerce Business Leaders: Victor Ross & Co. Realtors
Description: Photo and biographical article about Ross Cascio, founder of "Victor Ross & Co. Realtors" in the early 1950s, rated in 2000 "among the top 25 real estate agencies in Kansas City." Born in Kansas City in 1929 and "[r]aised in a house that still stands at the corner of [Saint John Avenue] and [Spruce Avenue]" before entering "the grocery business in the Armourdale District of Kansas City, Kan." and moving "the grocery store to 6201 Independence Ave. the following year" after the 1951 flood.
Date: 2001-06-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Piece of KC's Past Is Rediscovered
Description: Article details the recent suggestion that part of the original riverboat landing or wharf area on Kansas City's waterfront is visible. Geologist Richard Gentile thinks the exposed ledge that tilts toward Main Street matches those from early photographs of the area. Core drilling should tell whether more of the rock can be exposed.
Date: 2003-11-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Water Bogs Big Plants: Sheffield Steel Is Largest of Industries in Blue Valley Area out of Operation because of Flooding from Rampaging Blue River
Description: Photos and article about the Blue River flood of the Blue Valley industrial district and Leeds industrial district in 1961. Description "of damage in the millions of dollars" and shutting down of several factories, including the Sheffield Steel Company, the E. K. Campbell, Company at 1809 Manchester Trafficway, the American Creosoting Corporation at 2300 Oakland Avenue, the Union Wire Rope Corporation, the Albers Milling Company, and Black, Sivalls & Bryson, etc. Also flooding out of local residences and backing up of sewers, "[d]amage to aircraft and buildings at the Independence Memorial airport," etc.
Date: 1961-09-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: An Interview with Carlos F. Cortes
Description: Interview 7 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded March 4, 1978. 2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1978-03-04
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview with Henry Infante
Description: Interview 21 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Date of interview unknown. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Sound Recording

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: Missouri River: Mouth to Rulo
Description: Map of a stretch of the Missouri River between Quindaro Bend and Wayne City Bend, showing the principal topographic features within the alluvial valley. Contour intervals of 5 feet in the flood plain and 25 feet on the valley walls are indicated. Shows railroad yards around the Kansas River Bend and the Kansas City Reach, as well as levees, dikes, and railroad lines. The Missouri towns of North Kansas City, Avondale, Randolph, Minneville, Birmingham, and Sugar Creek are in evidence, along with Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 1946/1947
Object Type: Map

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