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Title
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Flood Scene
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Description
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View looking north along Walnut Street from 6th Street during a 1908 flood. The Missouri River can be seen in the distance. Several downtown buildings are in view. Signs for the New Nelson building, the Henry House hotel, and the Clay Auction Company can be seen.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Union Avenue Flood
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Description
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View looking southwest along a flooded Union Avenue near Union Depot. Horses, carts, and carriages traveling along Union Avenue can be seen. Signs for George Eyssell Drugs, Alpha Floral Company, Old Kentucky Whiskey, Dick Brothers, the Blossom House, and J. C. O'Keefe Wholesale and Retail Liquor are in view. The exterior of Union Depot can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
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Date
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1900~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Southmoreland and Plaza Buildings
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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West Bottoms Buildings
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1900~
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Object Type
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Photograph
