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Title
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1903 Flood
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Description
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Story of the anticipation and preparation of the flood and the narrow escape as it struck.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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1908 Flood, Union Avenue
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Description
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Postcard of Union Avenue during the 1908 flood.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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1908 Flood, Morris Packing Plant
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Description
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Postcard of the Morris Packing Plant in the West Bottoms in Kansas City, Kansas, during the 1908 flood.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Floods in the Missouri River
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Electric Park (2nd)
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Description
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Postcard view of the second Electric Park.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Postcard