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Title
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Westport, Missouri
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Description
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Full frontal view of Country Club Livery and Boarding Stables, located at 306 Westport Road.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Esterley Blacksmith Shop, Westport
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Description
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Esterley brothers standing in front of their shop located at 204 Westport Road. From left to right: Joe Esterley, Harry Booker (apprentice blacksmith), Charles and Robert Esterley.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport and the Santa Fe Trade
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Description
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Article (written by a well-known Westport trader starting in 1847 born in Virginia in 1823) about the relationship of Westport, Missouri to the Santa Fe trade in the 1800s. General discussion as well as listing of specific places and people such as Daniel Yoacham ("Daniel Yocum"), A. B. H. McGee, John Harris, Antonio Chavez, William Bernard, Albert Boone, James Winchester ("of the firm of Winchester & Piper, one of the great houses of Westport"), Francis Aubrey, Charles Kearney, Joseph Chick, Cyprien Chouteau, Lucien Maxwell, Kit Carson, Thomas Fitzpatrick, John Fremont, Francis Parkman, Louis Vogel, and E. F. Beale, et al.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Hugh Ward, a lawyer born in Westport, Missouri in 1863 and becoming a "counsel of the Kansas City Home Telephone Company, and a number of other large corporations," with offices in the Commerce Building.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Photo and bio of Arthur Allen, a Kansas City lawyer who became a state representative and state senator with offices in the Waterworks Building at 15th and Broadway. He was born in Virginia in 1831, became a surveyor there and came to Westport as a teacher before becoming Jackson County sheriff and then judge.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of James Chadwick Rieger, or James Rieger, a Kansas City lawyer and former mayor of Westport from 1891 to 1894. Born in North Carolina in 1856 and raised in Kansas City with offices in the New York Life Building.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Map Showing the Park and Boulevard System of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Map showing Kansas City's system of parks and boulevards. The city is divided into five parks districts: West Park, North Park, South Park, East Park, and Westport Park. Lists of parks with their areas in acres, boulevards with their distances in miles, and park drives with their distances in miles is included.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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The Black-Flag Character of War on the Border
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Description
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Reminiscences of the Civil War by Captain H. E. Palmer of the Eleventh Kansas cavalry, describing the "black-flag character" of their Bushwhacker opponents, led by William Quantrill. Description of battles and officers (James Lane, Charles Jennison, Thomas Ewing, et al.) at Westport, Osceola, Independence, etc.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of John Perry, a "[c]oal operator" in Kansas City as co-founder of the Keith & Perry Coal Company, later called the Central Coal & Coke Company. Born in England in 1850 and emigrating to Kansas as organizer of the company before moving it to Kansas City around 1890 and "construct[ing] the Perry Memorial Home, in Westport, a suburb of Kansas City."
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
