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Stockyards
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Description
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Stockyards history: (1871) organized as the "Kansas Stockyards Company" with the first Live Stock Exchange Building erected; (1876) reorganized as the "Kansas City Stockyards Company"; (1886) Kansas City Live Stock Exchange organized; (1951) most of the Stockyards area wiped out by the flood and the development of Kemper Arena and Interstate 670; (post-1975) the remaining 35 acres sold to National Farms, Incorporated, to be demolished and become part of a planned office park project.
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Vertical File
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Spirit of Kansas City
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Description
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File contains a booklet or pamphlet with an illustration (a print of "The Spirit of Kansas City" painting) and description (written by Joyce Hall) of his commissioning of Norman Rockwell to paint a symbol of the "Kansas City Spirit" in the aftermath of the 1951 flood.
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Vertical File
