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Title: Westport, Mo. & Its Additions
Description: Map of early Westport, with comments by the map's creator or cartographer, Charles Spalding.
Date: 1855
Object Type: Book

Title: Westport Mo. and Its Additions
Description: Early map of Westport, Missouri, shows streets with names and width; some residences like Col. A. Boone; and the Godfrey Vineyard. A “Table of Distances” gives miles from Westport to places like San Francisco; Salt Lake City; Astoria, Oregon; Santa Fe; etc. It notes population of Westport in 1846 as 300 and in 1855 as 1500. It includes an inset map of Missouri, beginning around Jefferson City, and Kansas, showing rivers and roads, especially the Salt Lake City and California road.
Date: 1855-07
Object Type: Map

Title: Spalding 1855 Map of Westport
Description: 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."
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Description of the importance of the Southwestern trade of the 1840s and 1850s to the economy of Westport and Kansas City. This included the Mexican War and California Gold Rush.
Date: 1858
Object Type: Book

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Comparisons of Kansas City's topography, from the levee to Westport, to Chicago and of its growth to Chicago, Memphis, Savannah, and Philadelphia.
Date: 1858
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: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Detailed description of the extension of Grand Avenue south to Westport from Kansas City in 1857, "decidedly one of the handsomest and most attractive streets in the State--and is evidently destined to become one of the principal business streets of the city," passing through McGee's Addition.
Date: 1858
Object Type: Book

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