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Title
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Crown Center Redevelopment Corporation
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Description
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Photos from clippings of the hill, roughly between 27th, Main, Pershing, and Grand Avenue, covered with advertising signs prior to the construction of Crown Center.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Union Station and Sweeney Automotive School
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Description
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View looking west from the Signboard Hill area near Union Station and Sweeney Automotive School. Includes the backsides of several billboards.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Main Street
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Description
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Street level view believed to be looking south on Main Street by Union Station area or Signboard Hill area. Identified as cut through the rocks near Union Station.
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Date
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1928
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Signboard Hill
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Description
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Looking south along the west side of Main Street near Pershing Road. The Hotel Plaza and Signboard Hill can be seen.
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Date
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1955
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Union Station - Tower 6
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Description
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View looking southwest of Interlocking Tower 6, once located to the east of Union Station along the Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks. Buildings once located at the intersection of Pershing Road and Main Street, the Liberty Memorial, and Union Station can be seen. Signs for the Upjohn Company, the Hotel Plaza, and Sherwin-Williams are in view.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Main Street
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Description
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Looking north along Main from just south of Pershing Road.
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Date
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1930
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Aerial View of Signboard Hill
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Description
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Aerial view looking northeast from Signboard Hill. The view includes the Journal Post Building, Coca Cola Building, General Hospital, and Hotel Plaza.
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Date
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1920~
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Plaza Hotel
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Description
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Full frontal and side view; located at 13 E. 24th. View looking south of the Plaza Hotel, once located at 13 E. 24th Street near Signboard Hill.
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The Crown Jewel on Signboard Hill
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Description
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Article with descriptive and photographic views of Crown Center, which covers up Signboard Hill, formerly the city's "most notorious eyesore."
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Date
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1975-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Promises of Signboard Hill
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Description
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History of Signboard Hill, the site of Crown Center, but previously an urban planning problem and eyesore covered with signboard "uglies."
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Date
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1973-03
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Mr. Kessler's Opinion
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Description
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Opinions of the city's landscape architect regarding what to do with Signboard Hill, the hill between Union Station and Penn Valley Park.
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Date
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1914-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Union Station Park
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Description
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Short article about the favorable proposition to use the "land directly to the south of the new Union Station ... for park purposes," and "that ample traffic ways to the east and to the west from the station should be provided," with a photo of Union Station.
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Date
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1914-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Future Liberty Memorial Site
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Description
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View looking northwest of the Signboard Hill area at the intersection of Main and 24th streets. Construction of street railway lines headed south along Main Street can be seen on the left hand side of the image. Construction of the Sweeney Automobile School Building, late the Businessmen's Assurance Company Building at 24th and Wyandotte streets can be seen on the right. A portion of the Park Hotel Building is in view in the background.
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Date
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1917~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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When Signboard Hill Was a Picnic Place
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Description
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Reminiscences of Martin "Keck's Tivoli Garden" in the 1870s roughly between 23rd, Baltimore, 25th, and Main Streets, a picnicking and dancing site on Signboard Hill. Description of Martin Keck, owner of the garden, arriving in Independence "from Germany in 1855," and engaging as a Santa Fe freighter in Westport until starting the Tivoli Garden in Kansas City in 1868 at about 24th and Main Streets.
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Date
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1970-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
