Illustrations and article about the broadcast of WHB news reporter John Thornberry, surveying the effects of the 1951 flood in Kansas City by airplane.
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.
This collection contains photographs showing flood damage to residences and buildings in the Kansas City, Kansas area and a permit for Mary Lou Eisert to enter the flood area to regain property from her residence at 628 S. Coy.
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.
View of Leonard Stanton posed outside of Stanton's General Store, once located in Holliday (now Shawnee), Kansas. Signs for Royal Crown Cola can be seen.