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Title: The Flood
Description: One page description and many photos of the chaos caused by the flood.
Date: 1951-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Municipal Purchasing News: How Kansas City's Flood-Filled Sewers Were Cleaned
Description: Article about the recovery and waste removal, above and below ground, from the 1951 flood, discussing the importance of unclogging the sewers to expedite water drainage.
Date: 1952-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Spirit of Kansas City
Description: File contains a booklet or pamphlet with an illustration (a print of "The Spirit of Kansas City" painting) and description (written by Joyce Hall) of his commissioning of Norman Rockwell to paint a symbol of the "Kansas City Spirit" in the aftermath of the 1951 flood.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: A Plan to Meet Disaster
Description: Article regarding the necessity of trained workers for employment in flood control and relief work over untrained volunteers.
Date: 1952-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 1951: The Great Flood
Description: Photos and article about the 1951 flood, "the second major flood of Kansas City, Kansas history" and the author's experiences in surviving it.
Date: 2001
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: West Bottoms after 1951 Flood
Description: View of pigs displaced by the 1951 Flood walking through a damaged area in the West Bottoms. The photo was taken from the 12th street viaduct looking southwest towards Mulberry street. The buildings pictures are the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad freight house on the left, and on the right the U.S. Supply Company building. In the distance is the Stowe Hardware and Supply Company building.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flooded Area
Description: View looking southwest from the 12th street viaduct of railroad yards in the West Bottoms during the 1951 Flood. In the foreground is the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad freight house, and directly behind is the Gulf Mobile & Ohio freight house, formerly the Chicago & Alton. Also in view is the Santa Fe Freight Station, Western Mill Supply Co., Continental Electric Co., John Deere Plow Co., International Harvester Co., and National Carloading Corp. facilities.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Damaged Area
Description: Overhead view of Santa Fe street in the West Bottoms showing damage from the 1951 Flood; visible are buildings owned by the Rudy-Patrick Seed Co., Crooks Terminal Warehouse Co., Kansas City Terminal Warehouse Co., Jacobs Warehouse Co., and Central Can Co.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

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