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Title
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Westport School Records
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Description
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Collection contains some attendance and scholarship record books for Westport, 1892-1897
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Archival Material
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Title
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Walker & Webster, 526 Westport Avenue
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Description
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Folder contains a small business card for "Walker & Webster, dealers in coal, wood and feed." The address given on the card is 526 Westport Avenue.
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Archival Material
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Spalding 1855 Map of Westport
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Description
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The 1855 Spalding map of Westport, Missouri, which hangs in the Special Collections Department as of September 26, 1974, is on indefinite loan to the Kansas City Public Library from the Daughters of Old Westport. Background information on the map is found in the local clubs collection, "SC 8."
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Archival Material
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Westport: Gateway to the Early West
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Description
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Rough draft or manuscript version of the book "Westport: Gateway to the Early West" written in 1949 by author Louis Honig (born in 1887), with photos, maps, illustrations, and information on Westport history.
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Date
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1949
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Boone's Trading Post
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Description
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Copy of abstract of the title for McCoy's Lot 9, where Boone's Trading Post was built.
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Archival Material
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Title
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Daniel Yoacham
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Description
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All the items in the folder are poor quality photocopies. They include reminiscences by Sallie H. Klaber, death certificate of John F. McCormack, deed recordings, and other sources of information on people who were descendants of Daniel Yoacham of Westport. The copies were sent to Adrienne Christopher, a descendant of Daniel Yoacham also. 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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1842/1973
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Archival Material
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John C. McCoy
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and information on John Calvin McCoy, or John McCoy (1811-1889), a native of Indiana arriving in the area in 1830 and responsible for establishing Westport in 1833. Opened a store the next year with goods delivered by steamboat. Secretary of the Kansas Town Company as the "first town lot subdivider." Also assisted the great gold discovery of John Sutter on the journey to California.
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Archival Material
