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Title: Economic Development Plan for the Kansas City, Missouri, Central Industrial District
Description: Report on the existing conditions and plans for the area, comparing its land use effectiveness compared to other cities.
Date: 1976
Object Type: Report

Title: Twentieth Century Edition of the Kansas City Times Supplement: Illustrative-Descriptive of Imperial Missouri and the Greater Kansas City
Description: Photo of the West Bottoms in 1900.
Date: 1900-01-01
Object Type: Book

Title: Souvenir Program: The 20th Annual Meeting of the Western Fruit Jobbers Association of America
Description: Photo of the West Bottoms, mostly showing trains, with factory smokestacks and the Live Stock Exchange Building in the background.
Date: 1924
Object Type: Book

Title: Central Industrial District, Kansas City, U.S.A.
Description: Map of central industrial district area including Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. Shows stockyards, railroad yards, railroad lines, freight houses, street car lines, bus lines and major companies. Reverse side includes aerial views and text, with statistics, promoting the district.
Date: 1936~
Object Type: Map

Title: Residential Area
Description: Aerial view of a residential area in Kansas City, Kansas. View primarily shows area that will eventually be remade as Jersey Creek Park. The Kansas River and Central Industrial District can be seen in the upper right hand corner of the image
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Greater Kansas City
Description: Entry describing the West Bottoms and the economic activities there, mainly railroad shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing of agribusiness, grain, meat packing, and other products.
Date: 1911~
Object Type: Book

Title: Central Industrial District Area Plan: Area Plan 11
Description: Land use, long-range plans, and maps of the area with given geographic boundaries.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Book

Title: Industrial Districts
Description: Folder contains two publications on the Fairfax Industrial District, one giving facts and the other containing primarily photographs. Folder also contains a fold-out brochure on the Central Industrial District in Kansas City.
Date: 1925~/1930~
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: SC167 Kansas City Stockyards
Description: The Kansas City Stockyards operated in the West Bottoms of Kansas City from 1871 to 1991. It was the second largest stockyards in the nation and one of Kansas City's most important industries. This collection documents the natural and built environment of the Kansas City Stockyards and West Bottoms from 1828-1983. It is a mostly oversized collection of blueprints, maps, architectural drawings, land abstracts, photos, and correspondence. Some items from this collection have been digitized and are available to view in the "Stockyards" Digital Collection, http://www.kchistory.org/digital-collections.
Date: 1828/1983
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Greater Kansas City Official Year Book, 1904-05
Description: Photo of the warehouses, factories, and other buildings of "a section of the West Bottoms as viewed from the bluffs."
Date: 1905
Object Type: Book

Title: The Early History of the Lumber Trade in Kansas City
Description: History of the West Bottoms area from 1880 to just after the 1903 flood, including Union Depot and the various manufacturing concerns and railroads in the area.
Date: 1924
Object Type: Book

Title: Souvenir of Kansas City and Her Fire Department
Description: Thorough description of the factory and grounds and operations at the packing plant, lying on both Missouri and Kansas land in the West Bottoms.
Date: 1893
Object Type: Book

Title: Seeing Kansas in the Sixties
Description: Photo and caption about the site of the "town of Wyandotte," Kansas, in 1867, "population 3,000," and "part of the present central industrial district of Kansas City, Missouri."
Date: 1939
Object Type: Magazine Article

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