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Title
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Map Showing the Park and Boulevard System of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Map showing Kansas City's system of parks and boulevards. The city is divided into five parks districts: West Park, North Park, South Park, East Park, and Westport Park. Lists of parks with their areas in acres, boulevards with their distances in miles, and park drives with their distances in miles is included.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Map
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SC32 George Kessler Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This one box collection includes 16 landscape drawings done primarily by George Kessler, dated 1910 - 1916 and covering not only Penn Valley Park and North Terrace Park in Kansas City but also projects in China, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, St. Joseph, St. Louis, etc. It also includes two microfilm reels of official correspondence to and from the Board of Park Commisssioners, held in the same box as the drawings.
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Date
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1895/1923
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Mystery Surrounds Kessler Park's Indian Mound
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Description
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Short article about Indian Mound at Kessler Park and how a 1923 study "commissioned by William Scarritt and the Kansas City park board" confirmed it to be of Indian origin. Images of the survey marker and the mound are included in the article.
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Date
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2011-05-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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East Bottoms
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Description
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View looking northwest from the bluffs above the East Bottoms in North Terrace (now Kessler) Park along Gladstone Boulevard. Several buildings, house and the Heim Brewery can be seen.
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Date
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1900~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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