Aerial view of Fairfax District in Kansas City, Kansas looking southeast. Mouth of Kansas River on right; Missouri River at left; Central Industrial...
Aerial view of the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers from the Kansas side showing the Municipal Wharf, the West Bottoms, and downtown...
Albert Preston (standing at podium) with seated panel: Emilie Levin, unidentified man, unidentified woman, Donald Smith, and Richard E. Davis; on...
Allan Bell seated at desk holding two phones to his ears while writing in a notebook.
Allan Bell standing in front of bookcases with open legal book.
Betty Grable on a California-bound train during a brief stop in Kansas City, Mo.
British doctor, Barbara Moore taking a rest break from her transcontinental hike in Kansas City, Mo.; sitting on a KMBC station vehicle.
Bundles of lumber in subsiding flood waters in the West Bottoms.
Cabaret Riviera hostesses greeting Tony Bennett at the Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Mo.
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.
Conference attendees watching a skit on stage: "The teen and their parents attitudes and communication;" at the KC Mace Conference, October 1967.
View east along right bank of the Missouri River in Central Industrial District showing Corps of Engineers dredge boat Meriweather Lewis dredging...
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...
Flooded buildings on fire in the West Bottoms, 1951 flood.
Flooded buildings on fire in the West Bottoms, 1951 flood.
