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Title: Kansas City City Hall: Elevator Study
Description: Comprehensive study of the elevators located within Kansas City City Hall, located at 414 E. 12th Street. The report covers the following topics: the history of Otis Elevator Company and City Hall, features and benefits, results, before and after photographs, a proposal, work by others, and brochures.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Report

Title: Biography of Chester Arthur Franklin (1880-1955), Founder of The Call Newspaper
Date: 1998
Object Type: Biography

Title: National Geographic Pocket Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico
Description: This booklet contains maps of each of the United States, as well as maps of Canada and Mexico. Scale and dimensions vary with each map. An index is also included.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Map

Title: Illinois
Description: Topographical map of the state of Illinois illustrating geographic features of the state, including lakes and rivers. Map also depicts locks along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, as well as cities including Chicago, Decatur, Rockford, Springfield, and East St. Louis. Prepared by Allan Cartography, Medford, OR. Printed by The Pikes Peak Lithographic Co., Colorado Springs, CO. Copyright Raven Maps & Images.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Map

Title: Saint Teresa's Academy High School Yearbook - Teresian
Description: Yearbook for the 1998 class of St. Teresa's Academy High School.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Yearbook - Lair
Description: Yearbook for the 1998 class of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Robert C. Corbett
Description: Photo and biographical article about Robert Corbett, past president of the Westport Historical Society, retiring in 1987 as chairman of United Missouri Bank.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Our President's Biography
Description: Biographical article about Joe Montanari, "the 1998 elected president of the Westport Historical Society" and "the president of Montanari Fine Art Jewelers" established on Westport Road about 1973 and moved in the late 1990s to 114 West 47th Street on the Plaza.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Steamboating in Kansas
Description: History of steamboating on nearly all of the navigable and semi-navigable rivers in Kansas, starting in 1819, mainly along the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. Photos, illustrations, and descriptions of the rise of importance of steamboats until the 1860s growth of railroads, including the building of steamboats for specific rivers and freight and the difficulties faced in discovering certain rivers of marginal navigability, such as the Arkansas, Smoky Hill, and Republican.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Kansas City Airline Legacy of Knute Rockne
Description: Story about the death of famed Notre Dame University football coach Knute Rockne in an airplane crash "on T& W A Flight 3 leaving Kansas City"in 1931, and the high-profile crash's influence in improving aircraft safety, with photos.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The St. Louis Scene: History, Place, and the St. Louis Arch
Description: Article about the preservation of architecturally significant buildings on the Saint Louis riverfront area, the oldest of which was mostly destroyed by the 1849 fire. Description of the compromises in urban planning in the area, leading to some demolitions but also the construction of the Arch, designed by Eero Saarinen in 1948 and built in 1963 as a memorial to the 1803 Louisiana Purchase by former President Thomas Jefferson, with photos and illustrations.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Beads of the Plains Fur Trade, 1775-1875
Description: Photograph and accompanying article that describe a portion of the Museum of the Fur Trade's Native American bead collection. The article describes how various tribes involved with the upper-Missouri River fur trade acquired their bead supplies and how they were used.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Alcohol-for Rubber, Cylinders for Aircraft Engines, Brake Shoes for Rail Cars, and Tents for Army Hospitals : All Formed Part of the Kansas City War Effort in the 1940s
Description: Article recounting the recycling of all sorts of products as part of the World War II effort.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

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