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Title: Westport Landing
Description: Information about Westport Landing, a common name for the Town of Kansas, or Kansas City in the mid-19th century.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Dear Westport
Description: Autobiographical letter by Adrienne Christopher, born in about 1907, describing her Yoacham family ancestry and career with Westport periodicals. She was also the first editor of the Westport Historical Quarterly magazine.
Date: 1977-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Westport Bank
Description: Westport Bank, located at 331 Westport Road, between Broadway Boulevard and Central Street. Architect Walter L. Fisher was awarded for restoration design on this building.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Square
Description: Partial view of Westport Square. The designers of this space received an award for creating an inviting environment where virtually nothing existed before.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Centennial
Description: Unidentified man in costume next to the Scout statue.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Branch
Description: Interior view.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Branch
Description: Interior view with children at tables.
Date: 1916-02-27
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Branch
Description: Interior view with men and women at desk staffed by unidentified male staff member.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Bank
Description: Photograph of the Westport Bank building at the southeast corner of Westport Road and Broadway circa 1980. The bank originally opened in this location in 1906, and in 1978, the building underwent a $300,000 renovation aimed at creating a contemporary version of the building's original facade. The building was torn down in July 2018 for a mixed-use development project.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport History
Description: Illustrations and information on the following subjects: the Daughters of Old Westport, the McCoy Plat of the old town of Westport, Westport city government council proceedings from 1857 to 1883, early churches in Westport, and biographies of the following prominent Westporters: (1) Thomas Fitzpatrick, (2) James Hamilton, (3) John Harris, (4) John Hatcher, (5) Dr. John Parker, (6) John Sutter, (7) the Vasquez family, (8) the Waskey-Purdom families, (9) the Wornall family, and (10) other biographies.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Westport Mill
Description: Full frontal and side view with unidentified men in foreground.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Mill
Description: Full frontal and side view with unidentified men in foreground; located at Mill Creek Road and Westport Road.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Landing
Description: Photograph of a drawing, looking south from north side of Missouri River at Westport Landing.
Date: 1855
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Landing
Description: View of Westport Landing, Kansas City's early riverfront, looking south from north side of Missouri River.
Date: 1871
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 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: Historic Westport
Description: Story of a peace medal from 1837 depicting President Martin Van Buren, found in 1887 in Westport on the corpse of possibly Chief Fool. According partly to John McCoy, Chief Fool was the winner of the medal later exhibited at the 1912 Westport Reunion-Carnival Celebration.
Date: 1980-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Historic Westport
Description: Photo and biographical article about Charles Raber, a western freighter operating out of Westport from 1860 until the building of the Kansas Pacific Railroad through Denver in 1868. Born in Switzerland in 1841 and emigrating to Westport in 1855 and starting out as an employee of Francis Booth before partnering with Martin Keck in his own freighting business. Description of a Westport saloon operated by John Bucher and his brother Phil Bucher and its rivalry with a bar across the street run by the Broad family, etc.
Date: 1979-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

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

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