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SC134 Westport High School Class Photographs Finding Aid
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1907/1917
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Westport Junior High School & Westport High School
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School
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Exterior view of Westport High School at 39th and McGee (Hyde Park Ave) and Oak Streets.
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Date
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1910
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School
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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.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Westport High School
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Description
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Partial frontal and side view.
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Date
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1915
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School
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Description
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Partial frontal view; located at 315 E. 39th Street.
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Date
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1989
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Photograph
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Westport High School Gym
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Interior view of the Westport High School gym. Basketball goals and bleachers on each side of the court can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Haydite Reinforced Slab at Top pf View. Westport High School.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School
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Description
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Most of the items in this folder pertain to a Westport High School 25th class reunion held in 1963. These items include program events, rosters, and a reunion booklet. The folder also contains a printed daily program dated 1919 and a commencement program dated 1924. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
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Date
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1919/1963
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Westport High School
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Description
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Photograph of Westport High School on 39th Street circa 1980. The high school was built in 1908. Westport High School was closed by the Kansas City School District in 2010, and sold to private developers in 2014.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Westport High School Reunion
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Description
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Group portrait of individuals attending the 65th reunion of the Class of 1926.
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Date
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1981-05
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School Graduation Class
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Description
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Exterior view of the Westport High School senior class of 1923. This published photo was courtesy of the Kansas City Journal-Post. Acme Photo Company took the picture. None of the students are identified. They appear to be posing by the high school.
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Date
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1905-04-06
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Corporate Education Comes to Westport
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Discusses the establishment of a corporately-owned charter school at the former Westport Junior High and High Schools and at the former Westport Allen Center.
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Date
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1999-06-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Plan: Repurpose Westport High as a School
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Description
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Article discussing proposals made to the Kansas City Public Schools for the empty Westport High School and Westport Middle School. The plans call for converting the schools into market-rate apartments, buildings for independent senior housing, or to reuse Westport High School as a private school and the middle school as a center for nonprofit organizations. Both schools, along with 28 others, were closed in 2010 due to declining enrollment.
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2012-08-31
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Vacuum Cleaner Inventors
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Description
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Article explaining a vacuum cleaner invented by Westport High School teachers Daniel Hall and Charles Hermann.
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Date
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1908-11-25
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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The Way They Were
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Description
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Photos and article about the 50th year high school reunions in Kansas City, with reminiscences of alumni of Lincoln High School (formerly all-black), Westport High School, Southwest High School, and Paseo High School (recently demolished), etc.
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Date
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1991-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Friz Freleng Cartoon
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Description
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Cartoon illustration by Isadore (Friz) Freleng published in the February 14, 1923, Westport Crier newspaper while he was a student at Westport High School. Freleng went on to become an animation pioneer creating over 300 cartoons for Warner Bros. featuring Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, and other classic Looney Tunes characters.
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Date
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1923
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Object Type
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Artwork
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