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KC Seeks New Place to Display Old Plane
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Description
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Article reports the possibility of Union Station becoming the permanent indoor home of a 1930 American Eaglet two-seater airplane, originally manufactured at the Fairfax Airport. The Eaglet is described by one expert in the article as the "Model-T of aviation."
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Date
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2006-12-25
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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1951 Flood
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Description
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Aerial flood view looking south across the Fairfax District toward the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. Smoke at top left is from the fire at 31st and Roanoke/Southwest Boulevard.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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1951 Flood
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Description
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Aerial view of flooded area looking east across the Fairfax Industrial District.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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1951 Flood
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Description
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Aerial view of flooded area looking west across Fairfax District. The Owens-Corning Fiberglass plant is in view.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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1951 Flood
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Description
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Aerial view of flooded area looking southeast across the Fairax District. Downtown skyline, Municipal Airport, General Motors assembly plant, and Phillips Refinery in view.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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1951 Flood
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Description
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Aerial view of flooded area looking east across the Fairfax Industrial District. View includes the Socony-Vacuum Terminal and Lube plant, General Motors assembly plant, International Harvester, and portions of the Fairfax Airport.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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1951 Flood
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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1951 Flood
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Description
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Aerial view of flooded area looking west across Fairfax Industrial District. Included in view are the Sunshine Biscuit plant, International Harvester Company building, Socony-Vacuum Terminal, and Kansas City, Kansas, water and light plant.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Aerial View of Missouri River at Kansas City
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Description
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Aerial view of Missouri River at Kansas City looking west showing the three bridges-ASB, Paseo, and Broadway-and Municipal Airport as well as the water works and industrial areas. Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas River, and Fairfax area shown. Immediately east of the airport is the former Harlem, Missouri, and portions of North Kansas City. No print image; negative and digital only.
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Buyout Program Near Completion
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Description
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General Motors Corp. has been reducing its hourly work force by 30 percent. At the Fairfax plant, 682 of the plant's 2,500 production employees decided to leave, and more than 400 hundred have already left. The article goes on to report, however, that "While General Motors is closing about a dozen plants as part of the downsizing, the size of the Fairfax work force will not change significantly . . . because departing employees are being replaced."
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Date
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2006-10-13
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Flood Scene
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Description
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Fairfax Industrial District and Airport.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Flood Scene
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Description
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Distant view, looking northwest, of Missouri River; also shows Fairfax Industrial Park and Phillips Petroleum. Photograph taken on day Missouri River crested.
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Date
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1993-07-27
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Object Type
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Photograph
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