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Title
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Kansas City Water Department
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Description
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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.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Description
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Photo and bio of S. Y. High, "superintendent of the waterworks of Kansas City," born in Pennsylvania in 1856 and coming to Kansas City in 1888 as superintendent of the Kansas City Nut & Bolt Company, "appointed chief engineer of the Turkey creek pumping station" in 1904.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Water Works
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Description
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View of Water Works with Missouri River in background.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Water Department Building
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Description
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Partial frontal view identified as old Water Department Building located at southeast corner of 2nd and Main.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 2, 1896-1907, Page p111
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Description
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Northern part of early Kansas City from Main Street east to Oak Street and from E. Front Street south to E. 3rd Street, showing buildings, streets, railroads, and the Missouri River. Large numbers at edges of page refer to pages with adjoining area. Volume 2 begins with page 111.
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Date
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1896/1907
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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That Damned Missouri River
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Description
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Photos, map, and extensive article about the Missouri River and its history of navigation and surrounding settlements. Depiction of Kansas City area scenes including Downtown and the Country Club Plaza, Hallmark Cards, pollution at the mouth of the Kansas River, chemical testing at the Kansas City waterworks, and Thomas Hart Benton.
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Date
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1971-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Fraud All the Way Through: The First Kansas City Waterworks
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Description
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Overview of the construction, fraud, and public scandal of the Kansas City waterworks. Beginning with the planning and building stages in 1873, and ending with a period of litigation and lawsuits that stretched from 1878 to 1888, the waterworks project was a complicated, murky, multi-ring circus involving the perpetrators (politically powerful and wealthy cronies), the city of Kansas City, and the state treasury of Missouri. Participants in the episode included John J. and Thomas H. Mastin of the Mastin Bank, Amos Green of the Kansas City Times, and Thomas Corrigan, known for designing, building, and operating the city's streetcar system.
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Date
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2014-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Liquid CO2 Protects Our Water's Quality
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Description
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Photos and article (written by the director of the water department) about the economic improvements in water supply purification by the Kansas City Water Department through use of bulk liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) recarbonators.
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Date
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1975-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Two-Stage Water-Plant Expansion
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Description
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Photos and article (written by a consulting engineer of the Black & Veatch firm) about the "unorthodox design and all-steel construction for the Missouri Water Company's Courtney Bend Plant" located "on the Missouri River about 4 1/2 miles from the Independence business district."
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Date
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1963-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Water Works Operation: "Know Your City" Show Features Water Works
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Description
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Photo and article about the "'Know Your City' Show in the great Municipal Auditorium" of Kansas City, "scene of one of the recent conventions of the American Water Works Association," "conceived and directed" by "City Manager L. P. Cookingham."
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Date
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1942-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
