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Title
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Kansas City Stockyards Bridge General Plan and Elevations
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Description
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Drawing of the Kansas City Stockyards Bridge general plan and elevations. This drawing is one sheet from a set of 26 Corp of Engineers drawings for the Kansas City Flood Control Project at the Kansas City Stockyards Bridge over the Kansas River, showing Bridge and Approach Alterations, 1949.
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1949
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Archival Material
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Title
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Achelous and Hercules
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Description
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Unframed color print reproduction (44 in. x 14 in.) of Thomas Hart Benton's "Achelous and Hercules" mural. The original 24-foot mural was done in tempura and oil on canvas in 1947. It was purchased in the late 1940s for $15,000 by Harzfeld's Department Store at Petticoat Lane and Main (1101 Main) in Kansas City. After the store closed in 1984, the mural was donated to the Smithsonian. It depicts Achelous, the Greek god of rivers in the form of an angry bull during flood season fighting with Hercules who ultimately defeats him by tearing off one of his horns, which became nature's cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
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Archival Material
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Title
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William S. Chick
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Description
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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.
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Archival Material