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Title: Westport School Records
Description: Collection contains some attendance and scholarship record books for Westport, 1892-1897
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: First Catholic School in Westport
Description: Story of the first Catholic school in Westport, on Washington Street between 39th and 40th Streets.
Date: 1966-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Children in the First Westport School: Jackson County, Missouri, 1869
Description: Listing of the children attending the "first Westport school" in 1869, giving names and ages.
Date: 1961-02-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Our Schools: Cut of the New Fourth Ward Building
Description: Article about the new "Main School Building" and Fourth Ward School Buildings in the Westport public school system, with illustrations and architectural drawings.
Date: 1895-08-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Main School: The Teachers and Scholars Are Now Enjoying a Modern Building
Description: Description of the new Main School in the Westport public school system and its modern design by architect L. G. Middaugh.
Date: 1895-10-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: [Council?] Grist
Description: Article about the school board meeting listing the teachers from Westport at "the County Institute at Independence."
Date: 1895-06-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Board of Education: Teachers Selected for the Schools for the Coming Year
Description: Article about the teachers selected for the Westport public schools--Main, Knickerbocker, Penn (also called "colored"), and Troost.
Date: 1894-05-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Allen School Neighborhood Preservation Association
Description: Description of the objectives and nature of the neighborhood organization in its efforts to retain a historic sense of neighborhood around the old Allen School.
Date: 1980-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Allen School and Its Predecessors
Description: History of the Westport school established in 1854, held in various buildings until 1976, along with plans for reuse of its 1912 building by the Westport Cooperative Mission.
Date: 1979-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Allen School
Description: History of the public school in Westport, starting no later than 1854, according to records, with teachers Nathan Scarritt and Arthur M. Allen, before interruptions by the Civil War.
Date: 1968-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Penn School: Westport's Historic School for Black Children
Description: Article tells the story of Penn School on Pennsylvania Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets. Penn School is less well-known than other African American schools because it was small and served a neighborhood (Westport) not generally associated with the African American community. The school closed in 1955 and was demolished in 1969 following a fire. A plaque commemorates the site.
Date: 2006-01
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: The Penn School
Description: History of the Penn School, a school for African Americans in Westport from 1880 to 1955, and in its later years a part of the Kansas City School District.
Date: 1968-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Penn School
Description: History of Penn School in Westport, started after the Civil War for African American children with its own structure built in 1880, closed in 1955, and burned in 1967.
Date: 1961
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: SC23 Kansas City (Mo.) School District Records Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains material transferred from the Kansas City School District to the Kansas City Public Library and the Missouri Valley Special Collections department, primarily in the early to mid 1990s. It has been divided into eight series groups and includes school ledgers and attendance books, photographs, Board of Education minutes on microfilm, school scrapbooks, Westport School District material, the Radio and Television Commission papers, and miscellaneous items as budget control summaries, property register and map, etc. The transfer also included school yearbooks and published school materials which were classified.
Date: 1867/1995~
Object Type: Finding Aid

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