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Title
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Proceedings of Societies--The Sewerage of Kansas City
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Description
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Article about the sewer system of Kansas City by noted civil engineer Octave Chanute, with suggestions for improvement such as keeping storm water and house sewage separate for sanitary reasons.
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Date
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1884-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Octave Chanute
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Description
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File contains a copy of a memorial booklet for Octave Chanute (1832-1910), a French immigrant in New York by 1838 from Paris, working with railroads by 1849 and eventually all around the nation, including the design and oversight of the Hannibal Bridge in Kansas City in 1866, and later developing prototypes for the first successful airplane of the Wright brothers.
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Date
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1905-03-25
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Hannibal Bridge
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Description
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First bridge across the Missouri River. Corner stone laid on August 21, 1867. Dedicated in 1869. Built by Octave Chanute. First engine crossed on June 25, 1869.
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Date
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1905-02-17
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Map Showing the Location of the Kansas City Bridge
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Description
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Map showing the location of the Hannibal Bridge, as well as the surrounding communities of Harlem, Wyandott, West Kansas and early Kansas City. The map shows the location of the southern bank of the Missouri River when the area was first surveyed in 1826 and indicates the rail lines connecting to the bridge.
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Quastler Photograph Collection
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Description
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This collection includes 31, 11" x 14" black and white photographic reproductions. Included in this grouping are individuals of local interest as Alexander Majors, John C. McCoy, Robert Gillham, Nathan Scarritt, John C. Campbell, Guinotte family, William Warner, Hiram Northrup, Thomas Swope, William Volker, Elijah McGee, R.T. Van Horn, Octave Chanute, William Gregory, Simon Brooks Armour, etc. Also contains other photos of drawings and early areas of interest to this area. Collection donated by Shirley Quastler in 1980. Processed: June, 1994.
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Local Aviation
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Description
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Photos and newspaper clippings about men connected with local aviation, including Lou Holland, Octave Chanute, Orville Wright, Charles Lindbergh, et al.
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Kansas City Bridge, Pier No. One, Showing Floating Derrick
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Description
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Drawing showing the first pier of the Hannibal Bridge along the southern bank of the Missouri River. Two individuals standing near the pier and building are depicted in the background.
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Date
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1868~
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Kansas City Bridge, Caisson No. 4 Brought into Position
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Description
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Drawing showing the lowering of caisson number four, designed to support the fourth pier of the Hannibal Bridge. Several workers and the steamboat Gipsey are also depicted.
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Date
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1868-10-24
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Artwork
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Title
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Kansas City Bridge, Lowering Caisson No. 1 into Position
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Description
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Drawing showing the lowering of caisson number one, designed to support the first pier of the Hannibal Bridge along the southern bank of the Missouri River. Several workers are depicted.
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Date
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1867-09-06
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Kansas City Bridge Engineering Drawings
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Description
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Engineering drawings related to the construction of the Hannibal Bridge recording the Missouri River’s water record, a cross section of the river, a plan of pontoon projection and the profile & alignment of bridge line & approaches.
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Date
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1867~
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Kansas City Bridge, False Works for Pier No. 4
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Description
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Drawing showing the temporary structure used to build the fourth pier of the Hannibal Bridge. The southern bank of the Missouri River can be seen in the background.
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Date
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1869-03-22
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Henry Haskell and Katharine Wright
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Description
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Aviation pioneers,Orville and Wilbur Wright, had a sister Katharine who eventually married local Kansas City Star,editor Henry Haskell. The book has several pages on the relationship between Haskell and the Wrights, especially Orville Wright. The marriage was from 1926-1929 with Katharine dying March 2, 1929.
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Date
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1905-06-25
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Octave Chanute
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Description
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Descriptions of and references to Octave Chanute, engineer of early railroad bridges and other constructions, including the Hannibal Bridge at Kansas City, Missouri, and the Kinzua Viaduct in Pennsylvania for the New York office of the Erie Railroad.
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Date
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1905-06-17
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Looking Backward
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Description
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One paragraph about the role of city engineer Octave Chanute in 1871 in utilitzing the bluffs in Downtown Kansas City, including grading "the hill from Grand Avenue to Broadway" to the level of 3rd Street, to "convert that space into a high class residential district," a project proven unfeasible.
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Date
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1922-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Kansas City Bridge
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Description
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Book written by engineers Octave Chanute and George Mason covering the design and construction of the Hannibal Bridge, then known as the Kansas City Bridge. Includes illustrations, maps, charts and photographs documenting the bridge’s construction.
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Date
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1870
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Octave Chanute
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Octave Chanute (1832-1910), "the friend, mentor, and most important correspondent of the Wrights [the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur]." Description of Chanute's life and career, moving to America in 1839 from France, beginning his engineering career in 1849 on the Hudson River Railroad, continuing with railroad bridges, including the first to cross the Missouri River, Kansas City's Hannibal Bridge in 1869, then turning to New York rapid transit, wood preservation research, and aviation or flying machines in the 1870s. He returned to Kansas City in 1883, then moving to Chicago in 1889, continuing aeronautical research, including flying machine designs and publications on the subject, as well as important correspondence with the Wright brothers during their invention of the first successful flying airplane in 1903, with several photos and descriptions of Octave Chanute throughout both volumes of the book.
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Date
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1953
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Object Type
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Book Section
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