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Flood Damaged Area
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Description
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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.
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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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1908 Flood, near Union Depot
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Description
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Postcard view near Union Depot in the West Bottoms during the 1908 flood.
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Date
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1908-06-19
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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The Task of Flood Control
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Description
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Article explaining the need for a centrally organized system of flood control for the Missouri River valley, for "irrigation, hydro-electric power, domestic and industrial water supplies, navigation and facilities for recreation," and the political barriers to such an agency.
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Date
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1952-05-23
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Senator Seaton on Flood Control
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Description
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Interview of "Senator Seaton" on flood control of the Missouri River, with questions regarding the efficiency of the project in protecting America's agricultural "bread basket" with dams.
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Date
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1952-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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West Bottoms after 1951 Flood
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Description
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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.
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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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Benton's KC Flood Painting for Sale
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Description
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Thomas Hart Benton's "Flood Disaster (Homecoming--Kaw Valley)" is set to be auctioned at Sotheby's in New York on May 19, 2011. The painting "was inspired by the devastating floods of the summer of 1951, which displaced a half million people in Missouri and Kansas and struck the Argentine and Armourdale area with particular savagery." "Flood Disaster" was once owned by Kansas City collectors Louis and Rheta Sosland of the Sosland Publishing family and is expected to sell for $1 million. Benton made prints of the painting and distributed one to every member of congress in 1951 in an effort to increase the amount of aid given to flood victims. Many of these prints were "tossed on congressional waste baskets but later retrieved and auctioned at Kansas City's hotel Phillips to benefit flood victims."
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Date
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2011-05-18
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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From Flood Could Come KC-Katy
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Description
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The diasaster of the failure of the Taum Sauk reservoir wall on December 14 may lead to the develpoment of a portion of the missing 225-mile Katy Trail from St. Louis to Kansas City.
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2006-04-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Missouri Pacific Railroad Bridge during 1903 Flood
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Description
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The Missouri Pacific Railroad Bridge over the Kansas River during the 1903 flood. The people in the image are standing at the footing of the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge, which was washed away during the flood.
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Date
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1903
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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American Smelting and Refining Company Flood
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Description
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Elevated view looking northeast of the American Smelting and Refining Company facility once located near the intersection of S. 21st Street and Metropolitan Avenue in Argentine (now Kansas City), Kansas, during the 1903 flood.
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Date
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1903
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Reallocating the Levy to Stop the Flood
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Description
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Swope Ridge Geriatric Center located at 59th Street and Swope Parkway continues to serve older minorities in the area. The author says "failure to allocate levy proceeds proportionate to the number and needs of indigent elderly minority citizens is a major shortcoming of our health-care system."
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Date
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2002-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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KC-area Levees Protect, But They Take Lots of Time, Money
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Description
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Kansas City's eight federal levees are located at Argentine, Armourdale, Birmingham, Central Industrial District, East Bottoms, Fairfax-Jeresey, North Kansas City, and Riverside. The article gives a brief history of levee construction and projects over the years.
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Date
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2011-08-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Correction
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1952-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Perspective: Domesticating Big Mo
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Description
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Editorial essay about the need for cooperation of flood control agencies by the federal and local levels of government in order to prevent repeated disasters like the 1951 flood for area cities, buildings, and agriculture.
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Date
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1953-04-16
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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