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Title: Plan: Repurpose Westport High as a School
Description: 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.
Date: 2012-08-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Historic Westport: Westport's First High School
Description: History of the first public high school in Westport, founded in 1852 and later with a large school built in 1908, with photo.
Date: 1978-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Vacuum Cleaner Inventors
Description: Article explaining a vacuum cleaner invented by Westport High School teachers Daniel Hall and Charles Hermann.
Date: 1908-11-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Twentieth Century Edition of the Kansas City Times Supplement: Illustrative-Descriptive of Imperial Missouri and the Greater Kansas City
Description: Photo of Westport High School.
Date: 1900-01-01
Object Type: Book

Title: The Way They Were
Description: 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.
Date: 1991-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Friz Freleng Cartoon
Description: 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.
Date: 1923
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Friz Freleng Cartoon
Description: Cartoon illustration by Isadore (Friz) Freleng published in the March 13, 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.
Date: 1923
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p527
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 39th Street south to E. 40th Street and from Walnut Street east to Locust Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1895-1907, Page p090
Description: Southern part of early Kansas City in the Hyde Park area on the outskirts of Westport from about E. 39th Street south to E. 40th Street and from Main Street east to McGee Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1895/1907
Object Type: Map

Title: Panther's Trail Leads to Kansas City
Description: Article describes the creation of the Pink Panther animated character by Kansas City native Isadore "Friz" Freleng. Freleng was a 1923 graduate of Westport High, worked with Walt Disney at Kansas City Film Ad Company, and developed numerous characters for the Warner Brothers cartoon department, including Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam (reported to be modeled on Freleng himself), and Porky Pig.
Date: 2006-02-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 'Sad, Sad Day'--21 KC Schools Close Down
Description: Article describes 21 schools in the Kansas City School District that will close as a first step in the district's improvement plan. Includes a two-page tribute to the schools being closed including Westport High School, Central Academy, and Ladd Elementary.
Date: 2010-06-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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