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Title: Boone's Trading Post (Kelly's Westport Inn)
Description: Full frontal and partial side view; shows Kelly's Westport Inn as occupant.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport: Gateway to the Early West
Description: One paragraph about the establishment of the first post office in the Westport area in 1832 with Dr. Johnston Lykins as postmaster and the first in Westport proper in 1834, with John C. McCoy as postmaster.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Westport: Gateway to the Early West
Description: Chapter of the book about the families of early Westport and the first white child born in Westport, Nellie McCoy, daughter of John C. McCoy and later married to William W. Harris, with illustrations.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Westport: Gateway to the Early West
Description: Description of the incorporation of Westport in 1857 and its annexation into the city of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1897.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: City of the Future: A Narrative History of Kansas City, 1850-1950
Description: Short story of the aid by an "aged Missouri patriot" in defending Kansas City from the Confederates during the battle.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Description of Anthony Richters as the second to open a store in Kansas City in 1840 (after Thomas Smart in 1839), selling "groceries and Indian goods" here before moving to Westport.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Bishop Lillis High School Yearbook - Lillislog
Description: Yearbook for the 1950 class of Bishop Lillis High School.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Pembroke Hill Country Day School Yearbook - The Raider
Description: Yearbook for the 1950 class of Pembroke Hill Country Day School.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: William Chrisman High School Yearbook - The Gleam
Description: Yearbook for the 1950 class of William Chrisman High School.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Yearbook