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Floods -- Missouri -- Kansas City

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Records:

June Flood of 1908 at Kansas City postcards

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH PH P2843
Overview

This collection consists of a set of postcards published by the Elite Post Card Company of Kansas City, Missouri, documenting the June 1908 flood. Most of the photographs focus on the Armourdale area in Kansas.

Dates: June 1908

Kansas City Red Cross photograph

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH PH P2814
Overview

A single black and white photographic print of a mother and son picking up bedding and clothing from Kansas City Red Cross volunteers at a refugee center following the 1951 flood. Taped to the back of the photograph is a description used for a news bureau, indicating that Congress had voted $25,000,000 to aid the region.

Dates: July 17, 1951

Official Navy photographs of Kansas City flooding

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 511
Overview

The collection includes 85 aerial and ground photographs taken by official photographers stationed at the United States Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kansas, of the flooding in the greater Kansas City area in 1951.

Dates: 1951