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Several photographs of the 1903 flooding in Kansas City, Kansas. Some of the photographs are labeled: Kindergarten on Wood St; Kansas Ave. Armourdale, June 1903; Swept away May 31, 1903 by the flood of the Kaw River, James St. Bridge; Swifts Packing House, Kansas City, Kansas, high water mark of the flood of 1903; Missouri Pacific Shops; Bell Line Bridge from Missouri Pacific Railroad bridge; and west span of stock yards bridge.
Date: 1903
Item Number: 457380
Call Number: FK2.W7 K.4 Fl.1903 *38-44
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 457380
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Warehouse
Built Environment - Function - Education - School
Built Environment - Function - Transportation - Rail-Related - Bridges
Built Environment - Function - Transportation - Road-Related (Vehicular) - Bridge
Business and Industry - Agricultural Industries - Meat - Stockyards
Business and Industry - Manufacturing
Business and Industry - Railroad - Bridges
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Floods
Date - 1900s - 1903
Environment - Water - Rivers - Kaw
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Stereographs
Places - Cities and towns - Armourdale
Places - Cities and towns - Kansas City
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Railroads - Bridges
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Stereographs
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