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Title
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Labor: Blackout in Kansas City
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Description
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Article about the labor strike by Power & Light workers and the consequences of the power outages.
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Date
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1941-09-29
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City...1951
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Description
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Rehabilitation of utilities after floods in the hard-hit areas of Argentine, Central Industrial area, Armourdale, and Fairfax.
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Date
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1951-09
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Water Softening Improvements for Kansas City
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Description
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Photos, architectural drawings, tables, and description of the water softening improvements and new facilities (some pictured under construction) in Kansas City during World War II, with the process starting in 1928, in a detailed article written by Melvin Hatcher, chief engineer and superintendent of the Kansas City Water Department.
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Date
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1942-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Water-Works Operation: Water Softening at Kansas City
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Description
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Report of the expensive but needed water softening operation by the Water Department, due to Kansas City's water's "high degree of hardness, averaging about 215 ppm (parts of sediment per million units of water) and reaching a maximum, during winter months...of as much as 350 ppm."
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Date
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1942-05
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Metropolitan Kansas City
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Description
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Map of the metropolitan Kansas City area, extending approximately thirty miles in each direction from downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Shows highways, major roads, parks, bodies of water, railroads, industrial areas, airports, suburban boundaries, county boundaries, and township and range grid. Map also depicts power and gas lines and water mains for areas outside the city limits of Kansas City, Missouri, and features radial circles at five mile intervals, centered on downtown Kansas City.
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Date
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1960
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Object Type
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Map
