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

Title: Harris House in Westport
Description: Exterior, street view of the Harris House located at the northeast corner of Westport Avenue and Pennsylvania Street. A truck and automobiles are visible in front. Identified in scrapbook as "Old Westport views."
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: First Presbyterian Church in Westport
Description: Full, front, street side view of the First Presbyterian Church located at 40th and Penn in the Westport area. Identified in scrapbook as â€œFirst Protestant Churchâ€ .
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Daughters of Old Westport Memorial
Description: "To the Pioneer Mother" tablet. Described in scrapbook as â€œDaughter of Old Westport Memorial to the Pioneers of Westport. Fortieth and Broadway. Bronze tablets set into a rough block of Missouri red granite. Merrell Gage, sculptor, Kansas City, Missouri."
Object Type: Photograph

Title: First Presbyterian Church
Description: Side view of First Presbyterian Church in Westport at 40th and Penn, showing ivy growing on building. Identified in scrapbook as "First Protestant Church".
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Harris-Kearney House
Description: Full, front view of the Harris (Kearney) House, probably located at Westport Avenue and Main at the time of the photograph. House was moved to 40th Street and Baltimore Avenue in 1922. Identified as "Old Westport Views."
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Harris House Hotel
Description: Exterior, corner street view of Harris House (Hotel). Similar to #17, different view. Identified as "Old Westport Views."
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC30-8 DAR Elizabeth Benton Chapter Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: A Kansas City Times article dated Nov. 12, 1979, stated that the Elizabeth Benton DAR chapter, located in Kansas City, Mo., was the first Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution formed west of the Mississippi River. It was organized in 1894 and named after Elizabeth Benton, wife of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton. The scrapbook was assembled in 1921 by the chapter's Committee on Preservation of Historic Points. The scrapbook contains 177 photocopied pages with 70 black and white historical photographs of the Kansas City area. Located at the front of the scrapbook is a contents page listing the local subjects included which pertain to historical points of interest in the area such as area businesses and buildings, disasters, events, churches, cemeteries, local personalities, etc.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Finding Aid

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