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 Image: Title: Date: Description:
81. Plaque Marks Union Station as Civil Engineering Landmark Plaque Marks Union Station as Civil Engineering Landmark December/15/1976
82. Pick Raises Kaw Flood Damage Estimate to $990 Million; Called Conservative Pick Raises Kaw Flood Damage Estimate to $990 Million; Called Conservative August/2/1951 Photos and text about the unprecedented damage and prices for repairing and adding flood prevention measures.
83. Photographs and Facts Photographs and Facts June/3/1916 Photo and biographical article about Frederick William Fratt, or Frederick Fratt, "a distinguished civil engineer," born in Wisconsin in 1859 and coming to Kansas City "a few years ago" as president of...
84. Photographs and Facts Photographs and Facts May/20/1916 Photos and biographical articles about E. F. Keister and Richard McCarty. Description of Keister as a tailor born in Ohio in 1872 and coming to Kansas City about 1904, with his "smart shop at 1121 Grand...
85. Photographs and Facts Photographs and Facts May/27/1916 Photo and biographical article about John Hanna, "the leading engineer in Kansas City," born in Nebraska in 1864 and coming to Kansas City in 1869 with his father, Thomas Hanna. Description of his career,...
86. Photographs and Facts Photographs and Facts August/12/1916 Photo and biographical article about Philip Kealy, former "president of the Kansas City Railways Company" until becoming a military officer sent to war in 1915. Description of his life and career, born...
87. Penn Valley Park, Winter Scene Penn Valley Park, Winter Scene Postcard of Winter Scene at Penn Valley Park
88. Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City 1911, ca. Entry describing the "J. S. Worley Company, consulting engineers," with offices in the Reliance Building and involved in public projects such as sewage systems, water purification, and "light and power...
89. Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City //1914, ca. Description of Foote Engineering & Construction Company, contracting engineers at 312-314 East 15th Street, with photos.
90. Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City //1911, ca. Description of the business of Daniel O'Flaherty, a surveyor and civil engineer with offices in the New York Life Building, coming "to Kansas City from Virginia in 1857."
91. Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City //1911, ca. Description of the general electrical engineers and contractors. Photo of Browning.
92. Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City //1914 Description of the Builders' Material Supply Company, "largest dealers of this kind in the West," building materials and reinforced concrete engineers , with photo of their warehouse.
93. Owl Woman Owl Woman May 23, 1905 Copy of a painting and description of Owl Woman, or "Mis-stan-star," a Cheyenne Indian woman and first wife of William Bent in 1845.
94. Oscar Zimmerman Oscar Zimmerman May/22/1951 Obituary for Oscar Zimmerman, a retired civil engineer dying at the age of 69 in 1951.
95. Octave Chanute Octave Chanute Fall 2000 Photo and biographical article about Octave Chanute (1832-1910), "builder of Kansas City's Hannibal Bridge," mentor to the Wright brothers in their invention of the airplane, and nationally prominent civil...
96. Octave Chanute Octave Chanute 1999 Photo and biographical description of Octave Chanute (1832-1910), "a civil engineer involved in bridge building, glider design, and flying machines," native to France and emigrating to Kansas City in 1867,...
97. Octave Chanute Octave Chanute June 17, 1905 Descriptions of and references to Octave Chanute, engineer of early railroad bridges and other constructions, including the Hannibal Bridge at Kansas City, Missouri, and the Kinzua Viaduct in Pennsylvania...
98. Octave Chanute Octave Chanute 1953 Biographical sketch of Octave Chanute (1832-1910), "the friend, mentor, and most important correspondent of the Wrights [the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur]." Description of Chanute's life and career,...
99. Octave Chanute Octave Chanute March 25, 1905 File contains a copy of a memorial booklet for Octave Chanute (1832-1910), a French immigrant in New York by 1838 from Paris, working with railroads by 1849 and eventually all around the nation, including...
100. Obituary for S. Nelson Androus, Sr. Obituary for S. Nelson Androus, Sr. May 31, 1951 Obituary for S. Nelson Androus, Sr., consulting engineer assisting in the building of the Shawnee Mission High School and veteran of the Spanish-American War, dying on May 29, 1951.