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Aerial shot of 1955 Kansas City Athletics opening day game against the Detroit Tigers

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Aerial shot of the 1955 Kansas City Athletics opening day game against the Detroit Tigers at Municipal Stadium, Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
April-12-1955
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Aerial view of Fairfax District in Kansas City, Ks. Looking southeast

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Aerial view of Fairfax District in Kansas City, Kansas looking southeast. Mouth of Kansas River on right; Missouri River at left; Central Industrial...

Date Published
July-14-1951
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Aerial view of the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers

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Aerial view of the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers from the Kansas side showing the Municipal Wharf, the West Bottoms, and downtown...

Date Published
April-23-1951
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

ASB - 6th St. Interchange

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Aerial view of the 6th St. interchange looking north.

Date Published
June-04-1958
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Grandview Airport from Gen'l Shinglers plane.

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Aerial view (looking northwest) of Grandview Airport also known as Richards-Gebaur Airforce Base, wing of airplane take up lower right portion of...

Date Published
May-1952
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 10

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Aerial photo looking east of the West Bottoms overcome with floodwaters.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 12

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Aerial photo looking east of the West Bottoms overcome with floodwaters. Quality Hill can be seen in the background.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 13

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View looking east from the Kansas side of the Kaw River of various flooded buildings in Armourdale.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 14

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Aerial view of various flooded buildings.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 2

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View of Downtown airport from Kansas side of Missouri river. Kansas City Skyline can be seen off in the distance.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 3

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Various flooded buildings.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 4

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Various flooded buildings and industrial tanks.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 5

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Flooded train tracks along the Kaw River on the west side of Union Station.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 6

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Clouds of billowing dark smoke from burning flooded buildings.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 7

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Various flooded industrial buildings.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - no. 9

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Aerial photo looking north northwest of the Downtown Airport showing flooding of Fairfax in background.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides

Mid-Cont. Intr. Airport

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Aerial view of Mid-Continent International Airport while under construction.

Date Published
November-1955
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Part of Central Industrial Dist. flooded

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Aerial shot of the conjunction of the Kaw and Missouri rivers showing the flooded West Bottoms.

Date Published
July-14-1951
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Aerial photographs
  • 1951-1960

Member of

  • Kansas City 1951 flood disaster - box set of slides (11)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (6)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (18)

Genres

  • Cityscapes (14)
  • Film transparencies (14)
  • Gelatin silver transparencies (11)
  • Black & white photographs (4)
  • Gelatin silver prints (4)
  • Color photographs (3)
  • Stereographs (3)
  • Views (1)
  • (-) Aerial photographs (18)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1951-1960 (18)

Subjects

  • Floods (13)
  • Natural disasters (11)
  • Rivers (2)
  • Airports (1)
  • Baseball fields (1)
  • Building sites (1)
  • Construction projects (1)
  • Fires (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (17)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (11)
  • 1951-07-14 (2)
  • 1951-04-23 (1)
  • 1952-05 (1)
  • 1955-04-12 (1)
  • 1955-11 (1)
  • 1958-06-04 (1)

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