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SC134 Westport High School Class Photographs Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains student photographs from Westport High School for the classes of 1907, 1912, and 1917. The collection also includes a set of student photographs that are not dated.
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Date
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1907/1917
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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P17 Old Westport Shopping Center Survey Photographs Finding Aid
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Description
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These 13 8" x 10" photographs are of structures on the property limits of the proposed shopping center to be known as Old Westport on the Santa Fe Trail, 1010 Westport Ave., Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City Orphan Boys Home was located here. Appears to have been originally compiled by Folger and Pearson, Architects.
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Date
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1960~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC43 John Campbell Compilation Finding Aid
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Description
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The date of John Campbell's birth is unknown, although it is known he was a soldier in 1797. He was issued a license to trade with the Indians along the Missouri and Des Moines Rivers in 1822 and was in this area from 1827-35, as an Indian agent. All the material in this small collection are photocopies only and contained in one box and five folders. The material includes photocopied pages from books and magazines, the correspondence of Mrs. Christopher, newspaper clippings, plats, copies of original federal documents, and other county records.
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Date
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1805/1965
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC12 Pioneer Park Committee Records Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection consists of records pertaining to the development of Pioneer Park, a memorial park located in and commemorating the early history of the Westport area of Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1981/1987
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC30-14 Louis O. Honig Scrapbooks Finding Aid
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Description
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Three scrapbooks compiled by Honig that has newspaper clippings, photos, etc., and information on Westport, Kansas City, and places in the state of Missouri. Louis Honig was the author of "Westport: Gateway to the Early West" (BROWSING MVSC 977.8411 H77W ) as well as a book about Jim Bridger (MVSC 92 B851H).
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1855/1951
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC46 Dr. J. W. Parker Account Books Finding Aid
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Description
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Dr. J. W. Parker was called John as well as James and settled in Westport, Missouri, in 1851 where he practiced medicine among the white settlers and the Shawnee, Wyandotte, and Delaware Indians. During the Civil War he moved with his family to Nebraska City, Nebraska, returning to Westport sometime after 1882. He died March 2, 1907, at the age of 85 and is buried in Union Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1851/1872
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC14 Phyllis E. Kite Manuscript Finding Aid
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Description
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Collection contains a rough draft manuscript of the book Golden Threads of Memories, written by Phyllis Kite as well as a history of the Westport Methodist Church at 40th and Washington Streets. Contents include a photocopied newspaper clipping and approximately 116 typewritten pages of the rough draft manuscript. There are notes in the margins relating to Mrs. Kite's history of the Westport Methodist Church. Donated by the author. Processed: January, 1992.
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Date
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1964~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC23 Kansas City (Mo.) School District Records Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains material transferred from the Kansas City School District to the Kansas City Public Library and the Missouri Valley Special Collections department, primarily in the early to mid 1990s. It has been divided into eight series groups and includes school ledgers and attendance books, photographs, Board of Education minutes on microfilm, school scrapbooks, Westport School District material, the Radio and Television Commission papers, and miscellaneous items as budget control summaries, property register and map, etc. The transfer also included school yearbooks and published school materials which were classified.
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Date
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1867/1995~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC9 Abstracts Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Assortment of abstracts, most of them for historical Kansas City areas, but a few are of other places. Documents are transcriptions or copies of transcriptions of the original documents. Abstracts include a variety of related documents, including will, divorce decrees, and similar documents that would affect ownership of property. Includes abstract for Shawnee Lands in Wyandotte County, Kansas involving the Bluejacket family; various properties in Westport and McGee's Addition; and McCoy's Lot 9 where Boone's Trading Post was built.
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1832/1972
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC30-8 DAR Elizabeth Benton Chapter Scrapbook Finding Aid
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Description
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A Kansas City Times article dated Nov. 12, 1979, stated that the Elizabeth Benton DAR chapter, located in Kansas City, Mo., was the first Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution formed west of the Mississippi River. It was organized in 1894 and named after Elizabeth Benton, wife of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton. The scrapbook was assembled in 1921 by the chapter's Committee on Preservation of Historic Points. The scrapbook contains 177 photocopied pages with 70 black and white historical photographs of the Kansas City area. Located at the front of the scrapbook is a contents page listing the local subjects included which pertain to historical points of interest in the area such as area businesses and buildings, disasters, events, churches, cemeteries, local personalities, etc.
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Date
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1921
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC15-8 Mrs. J. O. Williams Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection has information relating to Richard Yeager (also known as Dick Yeager) and his activities in the Civil War and on the Santa Fe Trail. Yeager, noted guerrilla who rode with Quantrill, was also a wagon master between Westport and Santa Fe and a friend and compatriot of Upton Hays, noted resident of Westport, prominent in several early local battles and skirmishes in the Civil War.
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Date
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1861/1865
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC1-1 Joe Sanders Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Joe Sanders was born in Thayer, Kansas, and spent the majority of his childhood in the Kansas City area. He started his musical performances as a boy soprano in local church choirs and graduated from Westport High School. After World War I he organized an orchestra with Carleton Coon called the Nighthawks which played on the local radio and traveled the country. After Mr. Coon's untimely death in 1932, Sanders continued as a composer, piano player, singer, and conductor of his own band. Sanders died in 1965. This collection of material, such as scrapbooks, travelogues, photos, sheet music, etc., provides information and detail about Sanders, covering his formative musical years and later successful band career. It also contains information on the relationship between Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders and the formation and travels of their band in the 1920s.
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1908~/1950~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC65 Helen Seibert Thomes Scrapbooks Finding Aid
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Description
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Helen Siebert Thomes was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1884. She conducted the Helen Thomes School of Dancing for many years, retiring in 1942. Her first studio was located in Morton's Hall at Westport Road and Main. Other later locations included Drexel Hall at Linwood and Main and in a building she had built at 40th and Baltimore. She died in 1958.The collection consists of two scrapbooks, one of which contains 79 photographs. Many of these images of Miss Thomes's students are autographed and contain personal messages to her, taken circa 1915-1940. The second scrapbook contains ten photographs plus newspaper clippings, correspondence, programs for recitals, ephemera from a trip to Paris in 1914, dancing schedules, etc.
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Date
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1910~/1946~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC86-3 Ada Greenwood MacLaughlin Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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Ada Greenwood MacLaughlin, daughter of Kansas City School Superintendent James Greenwood and his wife Amanda, was born in Kirksville, Missouri, on August 1, 1860. She resided in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1874 until her marriage in 1881 to William MacLaughlin. She moved back to Kansas City from Illinois sometime after her husband's death in 1904 and taught history at Westport High School for many years. Mrs. MacLaughlin was a genealogist and local history enthusiast. She died in Kansas City on May 31, 1935. Items in the collection include: a scrapbook, posters, charts, certificates, lecture notes and outlines, genealogy items, newspaper clippings, journals/daybooks, poetry, photographs, convention buttons and badges, and other ephemeral items. Most of the dated material is between 1890-1916. Many items, such as lecture notes and papers as well as diary/journal/daybooks, appear to have belonged to Josephine Heermans Greenwood. Of particular interest are the journal books kept by Josephine between 1895-1907 when she was principal of Whittier School. She discusses school management and other education related matters, social obligations, religion, etc.
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Date
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1870/1925~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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P34-2 Kansas City Art Commission Award Photographs-Landmarks Commission Finding Aid
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Description
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Collection of 122 8' x 10' color photographs documenting the winners of biannual architecture and urban design awards granted by the Kansas City Art Commission from 1964 through 1988. Subjects include buildings, neighborhoods, parks, signage, streetscapes, gardens, and other features of the built environment that were considered to have enhanced the visual beauty of the city.
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Date
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1964/1988
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC69-4 Steptoe Oral History Collection
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Description
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This collection contains the planning documents and footage related to an oral history project to record experiences of people living and working in the Steptoe neighborhood. The collection also includes a film produced by Thompson Productions of Kansas City in conjunction with the oral history project, “A Step above the Plaza: Celebrating Westport’s African-American Community”.
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Date
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2006/2007
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC8-1 Local Clubs Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Collections consisting of various rosters, programs, notes, membership cards, etc., of Kansas City area clubs.
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1870/1990
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC118 Local Restaurant Recipe Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection consists of recipes from local Kansas City restaurants compiled by reference librarians from the Kansas City Public Library. The recipes primarily appeared in the Kansas City Star and were requested by readers.
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Date
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1949/2010
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC42 Jim Bridger Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This one box, 16 folder collection includes photographs, photocopied correspondence, newspaper clippings, and charts. The 24 photographs in this collection are primarily of Bridger relatives including Bridger's daughter, Virginia. Genealogy charts for the family and correspondence between relatives is also included. There are photographs taken in 1923 of Ezra Meeker and the ruins of Fort Bridger in Wyoming as well as of Oregon Trail remaining ruts.
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Date
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1804/1881
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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