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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: Stockyards
Description: Stockyards history: (1871) organized as the "Kansas Stockyards Company" with the first Live Stock Exchange Building erected; (1876) reorganized as the "Kansas City Stockyards Company"; (1886) Kansas City Live Stock Exchange organized; (1951) most of the Stockyards area wiped out by the flood and the development of Kemper Arena and Interstate 670; (post-1975) the remaining 35 acres sold to National Farms, Incorporated, to be demolished and become part of a planned office park project.
Object Type: Vertical File

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
Description: Aerial view of flooded area looking east across the Fairfax Industrial District.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1951 Flood
Description: Aerial view of flooded area looking west across Fairfax District. The Owens-Corning Fiberglass plant is in view.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1951 Flood
Description: Aerial view of flood looking west across the West Bottoms from near the foot of the 12th Street Viaduct. Stockyards in view. Businesses in view include Stowe Hardware and Supply Company, Continental Electric Company, John Deere Plow Company, and Columbian Tanks.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1951 Flood
Description: Aerial view of 1951 flood looking east from near the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas River - shows downtown skyline and flooded West Bottoms area. Intercity Viaduct is on left and the Kansas or Kaw River at the bottom. Eighth Street Tunnel can be seen in distance.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1951 Flood
Description: Aerial view of flooded area looking southeast across the Fairax District. Downtown skyline, Municipal Airport, General Motors assembly plant, and Phillips Refinery in view.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1951 Flood
Description: Aerial view of flooded area looking east across Fairfax District. View includes the Kansas City, Kansas, Water and Light plant and tanks of the Phillips Petroleum Company Refinery.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1951 Flood
Description: Aerial view of 1951 flood looking north across Phillips Petroleum tanks aflame; located on Southwest Boulevard near 31st Street.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1951 Flood
Description: View of debris at 31st and Southwest Boulevard in the aftermath of the Phillips Petroleum tank fires associated with the 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

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: Me and My...Livestock Exchange Building
Description: Article recalls Jay Dillingham's memories of July, 1951, when the 1951 Flood ravaged the Kansas City Stockyards, of which Dillingham was president and chairman of the board.
Date: 2004-07-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Leaders in Our Town
Description: Photo and bio of Clark Tucker, mayor of Kansas City, Kansas during the 1951 flood. Born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1897 and serving in World War I before becoming a lawyer, judge, and then mayor in 1947.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Book

Title: Correction
Description: Correction to the April 26, 1952, article by Richard G. Baumhoff in The Nation magazine, notably the editing mistake about the author's comments on the part of the Missouri River valley affected by the 1951 flood and the governmental needs of the area.
Date: 1952-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

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