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Title: Kansas City, Its Resources and Their Development: A Souvenir of the Kansas City Times
Description: Illustration of the water works on page 11 and history of the water department and water works on page 9, starting with 1873 when the Missouri state legislature's approval led to the construction of the water works by the "National Water-Works Company of New York."
Date: 1890
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Water Department
Description: Photos, map, illustrations, history, and other information on the Kansas City Water Department and its various plants and other facilities and operations (including development of water purification starting as a prevention of cholera in the 1800s), etc.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Kansas City--An Illustrated Review of Its Progress and Importance
Description: Description of the new water works and the original works built in 1873.
Date: 1886-05
Object Type: Book

Title: Our Water, Our Lives: The Story of Our Water Supply
Description: General article about the Water Department and its operations.
Date: 1989-06-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Exec Hired for Water Woes
Description: "Water main breaks set a record in 2011," nearly 1,700. The Kansas City Water Services Department hired Bill Downey as a program management consultant to address the problems.
Date: 2011-12-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Council Proceedings: Mayor Names Fluoride Unit
Description: Fluoride Unit organized to educate the public on fluoride's purpose of preventing tooth decay.
Date: 1964-08-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Fluoride Devices Will Not Be Sold
Description: Expensive machines for fluoridating the drinking water to be kept for possible future use.
Date: 1964-07-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Northland History: Water Plant, Purification Expert Made His Home in Liberty
Description: Article about Wynkoop Kiersted (1857-1934), "top authority in the United States in the design of water plants, water purification and clarification" and sewers, born in New York and coming to Kansas City in 1887, becoming "a long-time resident of Liberty," Missouri.
Date: 1980-09-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Street and Water Department Buildings on Vine
Description: View looking northeast along Vine Street from its intersection with 21st Street of a stone Street Department building on the left and a stone Water Department building on the right. The Vine Street Kansas City Terminal Railway Viaduct is in view on the right.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Order Fluoridation Vote
Description: Decision of Missouri Supreme Court judges that Kansas City must hold an election on the issue of fluoridation of public water.
Date: 1963-12-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Water Tower
Description: View of Kansas City, Missouri water tower, located north of the Missouri River. Designer John B. Martin received an award for the imaginative, colorful graphics on this water tower.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1957, Page p333
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 19th Street south to E. 21st Street and from The Paseo east to Woodland Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1950, Page p333
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 19th Street south to E. 21st Street and from The Paseo east to Woodland Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Water Department Building
Description: Partial frontal view identified as old Water Department Building located at southeast corner of 2nd and Main.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Map Showing Water Mains and Fire Plugs, Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Map bordered by the Kansas and Missouri Rivers on the west and north, and by Woodland Avenue and 24th Street on the east and south, respectively. Shows locations of 10- to 20-inch water mains, and 4- to 8-inch water mains, as well as fire plugs.
Date: 1885-01-01
Object Type: Map

Title: General Plan of Distribution System
Description: Map showing the water distribution system of Kansas City, Missouri, showing distribution lines, discharge lines, and low service lines. The Turkey Creek and proposed East Bottoms pumping stations and the Holly Street and Northeast reservoirs are indicated.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Map

Title: City Officials
Description: Profiles of city officials involved in urban planning either through financing or organizing infrastructure improvements such as utilities, transportation, natural disaster prevention, parks, etc.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Looking South on Vine & Terminal Viaduct
Description: View facing south along Vine Street from near its intersection with 19th Street. The Vine Street Kansas City Terminal Railway Viaduct is in view. Cars parked along Vine Street can be seen. A stone water department building can be seen on the west side of the bridge.
Date: 1948-08-31
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The 8 Bodies Found
Description: Lengthy article describing the aftermath of a September 15, 1926, explosion in a tunnel then under construction beneath the Missouri River. The water tunnel, a diagram of which is included in the article, extended straight down 300 feet from 1st and Wyandotte streets, then turned toward the north and proceeded beneath the river to Clay County.
Date: 1926-09-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hydra-Hammer in Use
Description: View of unidentified man operating an Ottawa Steel Products Inc. "Hydra-Hammer" belonging to the Kansas City, Missouri Water Department, working to widen 9th Street west of Main.
Date: 1952-03
Object Type: Photograph

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