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Title: Battle of Westport Memorial
Description: Close-up view of plaque located on north side of 51st opposite Loose Park.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport High School Yearbook - The Herald
Description: Yearbook for the 1993 class of Westport High School.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: The "Dummy" Line from Westport to Waldo
Description: Anecdotes about the "way one got back and forth from Westport to Waldo at the turn of the century," on the "dummy" line to Dodson ("the present 85th and Prospect"), where it connected with the Missouri Pacific Railroad. "Dummy" meaning a type of condensing engine quieter than "the usual kind."
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: John T. Frazier, Daguerreotypist of Westport, Missouri
Description: Photo and biographical article about Judge John Thornton Frazier, an early photographer in Westport starting in the 1850s. He was born in Saint Charles, Missouri, in 1819. Description of his career, moving from Jefferson City to Westport after 1850, and becoming "one of fifteen daguerreotypists [an early type of photography] in Missouri," working also as an artist, carpenter, mayor of Westport, police judge, and town marshal.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Confederate Soldiers Monument
Description: Full frontal and side view of Confederate Soldiers monument, commemorating those soldiers killed in the Battle of Westport.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Confederate Soldiers Monument
Description: View of Confederate Soldiers monument and tombstones at south end of cemetery. Monument commemorates those soldiers killed in Battle of Westport. Cemetery located at 69th and Troost.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Confederate Soldiers Monument
Description: Close-up view of base of Confederate Soldiers monument, south end of the cemetery. Monument commemorates those soldiers killed in Battle of Westport.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Historical Marker
Description: Frontal view of historical marker which reads "Shelby's Last Stand", commemorating the Battle of Westport. Cemetery located at 69th and Troost.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Street Railroads of the City
Description: Reprint of an article from the August 10, 1873, Kansas City Times about the "extension of tracks [and] additions to the street railroads of the city," including new connections to Westport and Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memorial Honors World War I Hero
Description: Article about Major Murray Davis, a Kansas City lawyer killed in World War I, describing his life and the memorial dedicated in 1928 to him and his comrades, at 40th and Main Streets, and designed by Wight and Wight architects.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Southeast High School Yearbook - The Crusader
Description: Yearbook for the 1993 class of Southeast High School.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Central High School Yearbook - The Centralian
Description: Yearbook for the 1993 class of Central High School.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Northeast High School Yearbook - The Noreaster
Description: Yearbook for the 1993 class of Northeast High School.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Rockhurst High School Yearbook - Quarry
Description: Yearbook for the 1993 class of Rockhurst High School.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Saint Teresa's Academy High School Yearbook - Teresian
Description: Yearbook for the 1993 class of St. Teresa's Academy High School.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Center High School Yearbook - The Yellowjacket
Description: Yearbook for the 1993 class of Center High School.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Yearbook