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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: Westport Intersection
Description: View of the intersection of Southwest Trafficway, Madison Avenue, Westport Road, 43rd Street and Belleview Avenue in Westport facing southwest. A building housing Frank's Brake & Clutch Service on the south side of 43rd Street is in view. Billboards for the First National Bank and Holsum Bread can be seen. The First National Bank billboard shows their main location at 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue where the Central Library is located.
Object Type: Photograph

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: Descriptions of the two of Westport's oldest buildings, the Chouteau-Bridger Building, now Stanford & Son's, and the "Ewing-Boone Building" or Boone's Trading Post, now Kelly's, both built in the mid-1800s, with descriptions of their histories and need for architectural preservation.
Date: 1977
Object Type: Book

Title: Old Westport
Description: Stories and newspaper excerpts from about 1843 to 1860 concerning wind wagons built like sailboats with wheels for crossing the Great Plains from Independence or Westport, with illustration.
Date: 1977
Object Type: Book

Title: Westport, Missouri
Description: Looking northwest from the southeast corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania Avenue in Westport, Missouri. Boone's Trading Post can be seen on the right.
Date: 1892
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC134 Westport High School Class Photographs Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains student photographs from Westport High School for the classes of 1907, 1912, and 1917. The collection also includes a set of student photographs that are not dated.
Date: 1907/1917
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1879-80
Description: One paragraph of general description of the town of Westport, Missouri, population 500, and a list of 31 of its businesses.
Date: 1879
Object Type: Book

Title: Westport - Its Place in Western History
Description: Author prepared and read this 12 page paper before the Broadway Improvement Association, Oct. 6, 1941. Includes a cover letter dated May 25, 1962, addressed to Mr. George Fuller Green.
Date: 1941
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Westport Junior High School & Westport High School
Description: Photograph of Westport Junior High School, foreground, and Westport High School, background, on 39th Street circa 1980. The high school was built in 1908, and the middle school was built in 1924 as a junior high school, and served as Kansas City Junior College from 1942 to 1969, and then a temporary location for Manual High School from 1969 to 1977, then returned to use as a junior high, and later middle, school. Both school buildings were closed by the Kansas City School District in 2010, and sold to private developers in 2014.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Cooperative Mission, Incorporated
Description: File containing a brochure for the Westport Counseling Service provided by the Westport Cooperative Mission at 4051 Broadway Boulevard.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Westport High School
Description: Exterior view of Westport High School at 39th and McGee (Hyde Park Ave) and Oak Streets.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport, 1812-1912
Description: Description of the origins and early history of the town of Westport, Missouri as an embarkation or jumping-off point for western travels including the Santa Fe Trail especially in the 1820s-1850s, with illustrations of the Yoacham Tavern and Thomas Goforth, first mayor of Westport.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: Westport: 1812-1912
Description: Photo and description of Colonel Alexander Doniphan, and his role in recruiting and leading several Missourians and Kansas Citians in the Mexican War.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: Westport High School
Description: Photos and information on Westport High School, built (by the Swenson Construction Company) in 1908 at 39th and Locust Streets from designs by architect Charles Smith. Originally organized as a school in 1852 by Reverend Nathan Scarritt at 40th and Washington Streets prior to the formation of the Kansas City School District.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Westport High School
Description: Front and side view of Westport High School located at 315 E. 39th Street.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Methodist Church
Object Type: Vertical File

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