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Title: 1951 Flood
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Flood Disaster: Kansas City--1951
Description: Photo of Riverside grocery and liquor stores half-submerged under flood water at "stage 32.4 feet."
Date: 1951
Object Type: Book

Title: High & Rising
Description: Book is filled with photographs, personal reminiscences, and information concerning the 1951 flood. It includes a section called "A Long History of Flooding" which tells of other floods in the area (pp. 132-133).
Date: 2001
Object Type: Book

Title: High & Rising: The 1951 Kansas City Flood
Description: Book about the 1951 flood in Kansas City with numerous photos and descriptions of its causes (heavy rains in Kansas) and results (millions of dollars of damage leaving mud and wreckage), etc.
Date: 2001
Object Type: Book

Title: The Last Train Out: The Kansas City Flood of 1951
Description: File containing photos and an article about the 1951 flood in Kansas City with description of the author's "last train out" of Union Station during the flood's high waters.
Date: 2001-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Did You Know?
Description: During the Kaw River flood of July 1951, flooding in the Midwest caused more than $1 billion damage and claimed 41 lives. In Kansas City three persons drowned and property damage totaled $870 million. Of the five industrial districts in the area, only North Kansas City completely escaped the ravages of the flood.
Date: 1987-07-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 1951 Flood Damage
Description: Exterior view of street identified as 800 S. 9th Street in Kansas City, Kansas, showing damage from the 1951 Flood to the houses along the street.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1951 Flood Damage
Description: Exterior view of home at 813 S. 13th Street in Kansas City, Kansas, showing damage to the home and others from the 1951 Flood. Home may have belonged to Mrs. Shenkel.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1951 Flood Damage
Description: Exterior view of home at 1012 Hasbrook Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, showing damage to the home from the 1951 Flood. Two individuals in view are identified as Mr. and Mrs. Stinson.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Post Card from Old Kansas City
Description: Photo of the 1903 flood at the Hannibal Bridge, with the water level at "34.9 feet, 12.9 feet above the natural river bank," compared to the 1951 flood's depth of 36 feet, 2 inches.
Date: 1975-06-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Builders' Association of Kansas City: The City and Its Builders, 1887-1962
Description: Article entitled "Disaster Corps, Inc., Builders' Answer to the Flood."
Date: 1962
Object Type: Book

Title: Flood Damaged Area
Description: View of a pig wandering among an area damaged by the 1951 Flood; shows Faultless Starch Co. in background.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Damaged Railroad Cars
Description: View of damaged Santa Fe and Chicago & Great Western railroad cars beneath an unidentified viaduct in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Damaged Area
Description: View of debris piles outside of an unidentified freight office during cleanup after the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Damaged Car
Description: View of two unidentified men and a Chamberlin's Service Garage tow truck towing a water damaged car in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwest Boulevard Area
Description: Aerial view of Southwest Boulevard in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood, showing smoke rising from a fire.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Damaged Area
Description: Ground-level view of railroad yard damaged by the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Damaged Building
Description: View of an unidentified building damaged by the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Men Distributing Cigarettes
Description: Group of unidentified men surrounding a car marked with the "Old Gold Cigarettes" logo. Packages of cigarettes are apparently being distributed among 1951 Flood relief workers.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Damaged Railroad Cars
Description: View of several damaged railroad cars at an unknown location in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

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