Floods

Aerial view of farming, residential, and industrial areas flooded by high water from the Kansas River in Lawrence, Kansas. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

The tops of trains emerge from flood waters from the Kansas River covering Union Pacific shops and freight yards in the Armourdale District, Kansas City, Kansas. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Sandbags are piled up on the road leading to the Kansas City, Kansas waterworks (seen in the background) to turn back the rising waters of the Kansas River during the flood of 1951. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

View of the Union-Pacific freight yards in the Armourdale District, Kansas City, Kansas, showing railway cars partially submerged by rising waters from the Kansas River. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

High water partially covers the Osage Paint & Varnish Company, and its storage area at 10th and Kansas Avenue in the Armourdale District, Kansas City, Kansas, during the flood of 1951 when the Kansas River spilled over its banks. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

High water at Kansas Avenue and Mill Street in the Armourdale District, Kansas City, Kansas, as an overflowing Kansas River submerges houses and stores. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Aerial view showing the Kansas River during the flood of 1951 inundating the area around 30th and Southwest Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri. On the upper right can be seen smoke from fires in the area. The affected companies are Battenfield Oil & Grease Company, Socony Vacuum Oil Company's Warehouse, Phillips Tank Farm, Berbiglia Liquor Store, and New England Machinery Company. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Aerial view northeast of the Argentine Industrial District (in the foreground) and the Armourdale Industrial District on the left, Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri, at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers showing the area submerged by flood waters. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Aerial view of part of the Argentine residential district in Kansas City, Kansas, inundated by flood waters from the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Aerial view northeast of Phillips Refinery in the Fairfax Industrial District, Kansas City, Kansas, submerged in waters from the Missouri and Kansas Rivers during the flood of 1951. North Kansas City, Missouri, can be seen in the background. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.