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This black and white photograph shows a building partially submerged under rising waters in the town of Linwood, Kansas. Located along the banks of the Kansas River in Leavenworth County, the town experienced a great deal of flooding due to the extremely heavy rains of June and July of 1951.
Date: 1951
Item Number: 216430
Call Number: FK2.L3 Li.4 FL.1951 *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 216430
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Floods
Date - 1950s - 1951
Environment - Weather - Floods
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Linwood
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Rivers - Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Type of Material - Photographs
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