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Here are six photographs taken from the Topeka Boulevard bridge looking west at the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad bridge. The photographs show one of the piers of the bridge failing and causing three spans to collapse into the Kansas River. The photographs were taken during the flood of 1951.
Creator: McMahon, Tom
Date: July 13, 1951
Item Number: 306133
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.74 CRIP *42-47
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 306133
Built Environment - Function - Transportation - Rail-Related - Bridges
Business and Industry - Railroad - Bridges
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
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 - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Transportation - Railroads - Bridges
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Type of Material - Photographs
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