Aerial view of Fairfax District in Kansas City, Kansas looking southeast. Mouth of Kansas River on right; Missouri River at left; Central Industrial District, Mo. in upper right; and Kansas City, Mo...
Aerial view of the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers from the Kansas side showing the Municipal Wharf, the West Bottoms, and downtown Kansas City.
Bundles of lumber in subsiding flood waters in the West Bottoms.
Cityscape of Kansas City from City Hall looking NorthWest from the 29th floor.
City workers and police working in street after water subsides.
Collapsed wall of building and subsiding flood water in West Bottoms.
View east along right bank of the Missouri River in Central Industrial District showing Corps of Engineers dredge boat Meriweather Lewis dredging immediately east of Kansas City Municipal Wharf in...
Damaged streets and buildings from the 1951 flood.
Dead livestock in the aftermath of the 1951 floods.
Debris and dead livestock strewn street.
L. Perry Cookingham on a ladder checking out sign for Cookingham drive while Mayor Wheeler and workman watch.
L. Perry Cookingham, Harriette W Cookingham, and unidentified persons standing outside streetcar on last day of streetcars
Fire fighters with hoses and fire trucks training hoses on flooded buildings.
Firefighters waist deep in flood water using firehose to battle fire.
Firemen waist deep in water battling a oil tank fire in the West Bottoms.
Photo of flood wall looking west from shoreline of the Missouri River of the West Bottoms, buildings and smokestacks of the Central Industrial District can be seen in the background.
Flooded buildings on fire in the West Bottoms, 1951 flood.
Flooded buildings on fire in the West Bottoms, 1951 flood.
Flooded buildings on fire in the West Bottoms, 1951 flood.
Flooded buildings on fire in the West Bottoms, 1951 flood.
Flooded gas station and dead livestock in the aftermath of 1951 flood.
Flooded West Bottoms with just the tops of train cars showing above water.
View west along the right bank of the Missouri River showing floodwaters from the Kansas River flowing over the top of the flood wall into the Missouri River. The Inter-city Viaduct is shown crossing...
Glen Hopkins in bowtie shaking L. Perry's hand with his left hand and holding American Society for Public Administration's L.P. Cookingham award with the other in restaurant. L. Perry stands next to...
L. Perry Cookingham at the City Center Square groundbreaking ceremony with Tom Tierney holding a ceremonial shovel, Col. Robert Sweeney, Ernie Dick holding shovel, George Melton and McClosky also with...
