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Title
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Stockyards and West Bottoms
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Description
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Aerial view looking north showing West Bottoms and stockyard area. Kansas River and bridges in view. Missouri River in distance on top and 12th Street Viaduct is visible.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Taming the Outlaw Missouri River
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Description
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Photos, map, and article about issues of controlling the channel of the Missouri River, including its course between Kansas City and Saint Louis, etc., with photos of "Kansas City's mammoth grain elevators," long freight trains, "giant Stockyards," and river barges. Discussion of the river's history of moving its channel and flooding numerous towns and cities, including Kansas City in 1903, etc.
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Date
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1945-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Taming the Outlaw Missouri River
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Description
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History, description, large map, and several photos of the Missouri River basin and its modifications for human purposes, including "dam, lake, levee, powerhouse, steamer channel, and irrigation ditch," also with photos of the Kansas City Stockyards.
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Date
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1945-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Frisco Lines
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Description
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Map of Frisco Lines in Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO, showing tracks in vicinity of Santa Fe Street and Packingtown Main, January 1, 1917. Map has “Recvd 10-26-30” written on it.
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Date
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1917-01-01
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Map of Missouri River at Mouth of Kaw
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Description
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Map of Missouri River at mouth of Kaw. Showing topography of channel, railroads, bridges, buildings, and adjacent streets. Compiled from original surveys made in conjunction with the investigation of floods in the Kaw River. "MO River Plate" from set of 9 maps.
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Date
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1905
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Object Type
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Map
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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
