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 Image: Title: Date: Description:
1. 1903 Flood 1903 Flood 1908 Story of the anticipation and preparation of the flood and the narrow escape as it struck.
2. Builders' Association of Kansas City: The City and Its Builders, 1887-1962 Builders' Association of Kansas City: The City and Its Builders, 1887-1962 1962 Article entitled "Disaster Corps, Inc., Builders' Answer to the Flood."
3. Early History of the Lumber Trade of Kansas City: The Prophetic City Early History of the Lumber Trade of Kansas City: The Prophetic City 1924 Story of 21 children killed in a roof collapse resulting from a tornado at the Lathop School at 8th and Central Streets in the 1800s.
4. Flood Disaster: Kansas City--1951 Flood Disaster: Kansas City--1951 1951 Photo of Riverside grocery and liquor stores half-submerged under flood water at "stage 32.4 feet."
5. High & Rising High & Rising 2001 Book is filled with photographs, personal reminiscences, and information concerning the 1951 flood. It includes a section called "A Long History of Flooding" which tells of other floods in the area (pp....
6. High & Rising: The 1951 Kansas City Flood High & Rising: The 1951 Kansas City Flood 2001 Book about the 1951 flood in Kansas City with numerous photos and descriptions of its causes (heavy rains in Kansas) and results (millions of dollars of damage leaving mud and wreckage), etc.
7. Hughes Convention Hall Views Hughes Convention Hall Views 1900 Photos of the ruins of the Lathrop School next to Convention Hall after the fire of 1900.
8. Hughes Convention Hall Views Hughes Convention Hall Views 1900 Pictorial and descriptive story of the original and reconstructed Convention Halls.
9. Investigation of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse Investigation of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse May//1982 Book documenting evidence regarding possible engineering negligence in the hotel walkway collapse and disaster, with many photos and drawings of materials and structures.
10. Kansas City: An American Story Kansas City: An American Story 1999 Description and depictions of the 1981 Hyatt Regency disaster, resulting in 114 deaths from the hotel's skywalk falling, with photos, illustrations, and diagrams.
11. Kansas-Missouri Floods of June-July 1951: Technical Paper No. 17 Kansas-Missouri Floods of June-July 1951: Technical Paper No. 17 July//1952 Compilation of "the basic hydrometeorological data for the great Kansas-Missouri floods of June-July 1951," complete with maps and statistics.
12. Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters 2000 (1856 first edition) Table of distances on the Missouri River from Saint Louis to various points upstream including Arrow Rock, Lexington, Sibley, Liberty, Wayne City, "Kansas" or Kansas City, Parkville, Fort Leavenworth,...
13. Marking Missouri History Marking Missouri History 1998 Description and illustration of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811, continuing as a series of tremors through the year and "churning the water [of the Mississippi River], felling trees, and opening chasms."...
14. Report of the Kemper Arena Roof Collapse of June 4, 1979, Kansas City, Missouri Report of the Kemper Arena Roof Collapse of June 4, 1979, Kansas City, Missouri August/7/1979 Investigation about the causes of the roof failure with engineering drawings.
15. School History of the State of Missouri School History of the State of Missouri 1891 Description of the locust or grasshopper plague of 1874-1875 from the Rocky Mountains to Missouri, referred to "as Kansas Grasshoppers," descending the mountains and eating "every green thing" in Colorado...
16. Story of Convention Hall Story of Convention Hall 1906, ca. Story of the building from 1897 to about 1906.
17. The Fire That Sparked a City The Fire That Sparked a City March 1972 Drawing and article about the building's fire as "the age-old Phoenix story with a unique twist."
18. The Great 1951 Flood: Tales of the 1951 Flood The Great 1951 Flood: Tales of the 1951 Flood 1995 Booklet of personal reminiscences (with a few cartoon illustrations) about the 1951 flood in Kansas City, Kansas, especially in the West Bottoms (at the mouth of the Kansas River or Kaw River).
19. The Ottawa-Kansas City Tornado Disaster of May 20, 1957 The Ottawa-Kansas City Tornado Disaster of May 20, 1957 1957 Booklet depicting the carnage in the path of the tornado from Ottawa, Kansas, to Kansas City, Missouri, with photos and map.
20. What Do You Say to That? What Do You Say to That? //1988 Book with illustrations and extensive information about the author's (Walt Bodine) upbringing and radio show career in his native Kansas City, with chapters on past mayors, the Manual Training School,...