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Title: Westport, Missouri
Description: Drawing showing full frontal and side view of Westport City Hall.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Branch
Description: Interior view with children at tables.
Date: 1916-02-27
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Branch
Description: Interior view with men and women at desk staffed by unidentified male staff member.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Bank
Description: View looking southeast of the Westport Bank Building, once located on the south corner of Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard in Westport. Cars traveling along Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard can be seen.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Bank
Description: View looking north of the rear side of the Westport Bank Building, once located on the south corner of Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard in Westport.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport History
Description: Illustrations and information on the following subjects: the Daughters of Old Westport, the McCoy Plat of the old town of Westport, Westport city government council proceedings from 1857 to 1883, early churches in Westport, and biographies of the following prominent Westporters: (1) Thomas Fitzpatrick, (2) James Hamilton, (3) John Harris, (4) John Hatcher, (5) Dr. John Parker, (6) John Sutter, (7) the Vasquez family, (8) the Waskey-Purdom families, (9) the Wornall family, and (10) other biographies.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Westport Avenue
Description: View of Westport Avenue, looking east at Broadway Boulevard. Identified as "Old Westport Views."
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Mill
Description: Full frontal and side view with unidentified men in foreground.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Mill
Description: Full frontal and side view with unidentified men in foreground; located at Mill Creek Road and Westport Road.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Landing
Description: Photograph of a drawing, looking south from north side of Missouri River at Westport Landing.
Date: 1855
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Landing
Description: View of Westport Landing, Kansas City's early riverfront, looking south from north side of Missouri River.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Road
Description: View looking southwest from 530 Westport Road (Mill Street).
Date: 1947-07-14
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Map
Description: 1855 Westport map reproduced in a publication entitled "The Uptowner".
Date: 1947-01-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Road
Description: View looking southwest from 530 Westport Road from Mill Street.
Date: 1948-06-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Trucker
Description: Bound volume of several issues of the Westport Trucker, the self-proclaimed "underground newspaper" of Westport.
Date: 1971/1972
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Goodbye, Westport
Description: Discusses the influx of chain businesses into Westport and how they alter the perception of the area.
Date: 1998-06-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Westport Trucker
Description: Incomplete collection of Westport Trucker, a counterculture newspaper distributed in Kansas City, Missouri, beginning in 1971.
Date: 1971/1972
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: Westport House
Description: View of Westport House, located at 4100 Waddell Avenue. Architects Abend-Singleton Associates, Inc. received an award for the building's design, which responds beautifully to an older neighborhood as well as becoming a point of reference for the larger area.
Date: 1984
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Old Westport
Description: Article describing several firsts for the city of Westport, starting with the supposed first white visitor to the land in 1787, Daniel Morgan Boone. Description of early institutions and businesses from the 1830s to the 1860s, mostly related to the Santa Fe Trail trade.
Date: 1965-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Historic Westport
Description: Story of a peace medal from 1837 depicting President Martin Van Buren, found in 1887 in Westport on the corpse of possibly Chief Fool. According partly to John McCoy, Chief Fool was the winner of the medal later exhibited at the 1912 Westport Reunion-Carnival Celebration.
Date: 1980-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

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