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Title: How to Stop Floods: Answers from General Pick, Top Man for River Control
Description: Interview of "General Lewis Pick, Chief of the Army's Corps of Engineers and coauthor of the Pick-Sloan Plan for harnessing the Missouri" River, with his answers on how to stop the floods of the Missouri River Basin, highlighting the 1951 flood, with photos and large illustrated map.
Date: 1952-04-25
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Water Resources Development by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in Missouri
Description: Description of the flood control projects in the Kansas City area, especially concerning the West Bottoms area after the 1951 flood.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Report

Title: Aviation Facilities Suffer Flood Damage
Description: Summary of effects of the flood on the most severely hit airlines.
Date: 1951-07-23
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Woman Supplying Food to Men
Description: Unidentified female Army worker supplying food and drink to uniformed men during 1951 flood, outside Naval Reserve Training Center.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Men and Women Sorting Clothing
Description: Unidentified men and women with Army workers sorting through boxes and clothing during 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women Feeding Uniformed Men
Description: Unidentified female Army workers supplying food and drink to uniformed men during 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women Providing Food and Drink to Man
Description: Unidentified female Army workers supplying food and drink to unidentified man in bulldozer during 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women Supplying Men with Food and Drink
Description: Unidentified female Army workers supplying food and drink to uniformed men during 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women Making Sandwiches
Description: Unidentified female Army workers and other women making sandwiches during 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women Sorting Clothing
Description: Interior view of unidentified women and children sorting through boxes of clothing during 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Woman Serving Food to Men
Description: Unidentified female Army worker serving food and drink to men during 1951 flood, along the 1600 block of Genesee.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pick Raises Kaw Flood Damage Estimate to $990 Million; Called Conservative
Description: Photos and text about the unprecedented damage and prices for repairing and adding flood prevention measures.
Date: 1951-08-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Digging Out Kansas City Business
Description: Recovery from flood involving literally digging business buildings out from the "evil-smelling mud."
Date: 1951-08-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Flood Waters Roll into History as New Marks Are Set, Controls Talk Revives
Description: Description with numerous photos of the flood, accompanied by engineering plans to prevent a similar reoccurrence.
Date: 1951-07-26
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: How Superflood Wrecked Kansas City
Description: Brief account of the flood damage and the city's recovery.
Date: 1951-07-21
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Why Kansas City Changed Its Water-Works Plan
Description: Article about the impact of the 1951 flood and other reasons for expansion and improvements in the water treatment operations by the Water Department, with photos.
Date: 1955-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Flood Victim Recovers
Description: Story of how the Great Lakes Pipe Line Company met special flood problems after their Kansas City terminal's shutdown due to flooding.
Date: 1951-08-23
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas-Missouri Floods of June-July 1951: Technical Paper No. 17
Description: Compilation of "the basic hydrometeorological data for the great Kansas-Missouri floods of June-July 1951," complete with maps and statistics.
Date: 1952-07
Object Type: Book

Title: P15 1951 Flood Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: The collection of 30 black and white photographs include aerial views as well as ground shots of streets, rubble, river bottoms, etc., during the 1951 flood in Kansas City. It also contains views of the fire on Southwest Boulevard which occurred at this time.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC165 Mary Lou Eisert Collection Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Finding Aid

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