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These two sepia colored postcards show flood damage to the Weybrew house near Wamego, Kansas. The extremely heavy rains from May 30th to June 1st of 1903 caused a great deal of flooding to the Kansas Rivers Basin and to the Kansas and Missouri Republican River Basin.
Date: 1903
Item Number: 225565
Call Number: FK2.P3.4 FL. 1903 *8-9
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 225565
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Single Dwelling
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s - 1903
Environment - Weather - Floods
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
Places - Cities and towns - Wamego
Places - Counties - Pottawatomie
Places - Rivers - Kansas
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Postcards
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