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Title
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SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
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Date
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1980/2005
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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The Founding of Westport, Mo.: Charles Spalding, Westport and Kansas City's First Town Booster
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Charles Carroll Spalding, or Charles Spalding (1826-1876 ca.), perhaps the first civic booster or promoter for Kansas City and Westport. Native of Vermont coming to Kansas City about the mid-1850s as city engineer (appointed in 1855 and producing a map of Westport there) and newspaper writer (hired in 1856 on the Kansas City Enterprise by editor Robert Van Horn). Author of the 1858 book (one of the first published in Kansas City) "Annals of the City of Kansas" and city clerk in 1860 before returning to Vermont and serving the Union in the Civil War.
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Date
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1978-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
