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Title: TRCA Makes Funding Appeal to City-Wide PIAC
Description: Article about the appeal by the Truman Road Corridor Association for "an engineering study to examine the flooding problems of four underpasses in and near Historic Northeast: 18th Street and Indiana, 13th Street and Jackson, 12th Street and Elmwood, and Cleveland and Truman Road" (all railroad underpasses and "part of the Goose Neck Creek Watershed").
Date: 2001-08-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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: If You Don't Like the Weather, Wait a Minute
Description: Review of weather in Kansas including major storms, tornadoes, and floods from the early 1800s to the present.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: How People, Institutions and Floods Shaped the Development of the Brush Creek Corridor: A History
Description: In the first of two articles about Brush Creek, the author traces the history of the area around Brush Creek, touching on important people and institutions such as William Rockhill Nelson, J.C. Nichols and Rockhurst Collge.
Date: 2004-04-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: General View of Part of Packing House District, Kansas City, Kansas.
Description: Postcard showing the Kansas City, Kansas, portion of the Stockyards District in the West Bottoms. The Morris & Company packing plant can be seen in the background.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Biography of Thomas C. Unthank (1866-1932), Physician
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Randall Jessee (1914-1976), Newsman
Date: 2003
Object Type: Biography

Title: Franklin Site to Be Marked
Description: Brief item describing plans for the erection of a pole at the site of the original town square of Franklin, Missouri, where the Santa Fe Trail began in 1821.
Date: 2004-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: William S. Chick
Description: Bio of William S. Chick from Virginia, involved in the War of 1812, and settling in Westport in 1836 with a log business struck repeatedly by floods. Began ferry service facilitating fur trade. First to purchase land in Kansas City in 1844, first postmaster.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Biography of William Chick (1794-1847), Pioneer
Date: 2008
Object Type: Biography

Title: New Terror in a Savage Spring: A Record Rampage of Tornadoes and Sudden Floods
Description: Article about the rash of tornadoes and floods in the Midwest, including the May 20, 1957, tornado in Ruskin Heights in southern Kansas City, with large photos and maps.
Date: 1957-06-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Some Public Health Implications of the Missouri Valley Development Program
Description: Article about public health implications of the Missouri Valley Development Program in 1950, including possible contamination of the water supply due to potential flooding from the lower Missouri River (including the Kansas City area), "heavily polluted with the domestic and industrial wastes from the metropolitan areas above this portion of this basin."
Date: 1950-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

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: Union Depot Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Hannibal Bridge Profile
Date: 2003

Title: Terrorist Attacks Create Consumer Panic: Tuesday's Gas Craze All in Vain
Description: Photo and article about the "rumors of a gas shortage dr[iving] hundreds of people to wait in long lines" at gasoline stations in Northeast Kansas City (and elsewhere in the metro area) in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the East Coast.
Date: 2001-09-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Biography of Moses Grinter (1810-1878) and Anna Marshall Grinter (1820-1905), Pioneers
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Kansas City....The Way We Were
Description: Photos of the estate at Longview Farm in Lee's Summit, Missouri, owned by lumber magnate Robert A. Long and made famous largely by his daughter, Loula Long Combs, "a horsewoman of national renown."
Date: 1981
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Jay B. Dillingham (1910-2007), Businessman
Date: 2009
Object Type: Biography

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