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Title
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Spalding Memorial
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Description
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View of the Charles Carroll Spalding Memorial located in Penn Valley Park. The inscription on the rock reads: "To the Author of Annals of the City of Kansas and the Great Western Plains, 1858, Charles Carroll Spalding - Who in the Day of Small Things Had the Bold Vision to Forsee the Future City."
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Charles Spalding
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Description
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Biographical essay about Charles Carroll Spalding, or Charles Spalding (also known as C. C. Spalding) in the reprint edition, the author of "Annals of the City of Kansas" in 1858 and "one of the original merchants of the town of Kansas," as a "city engineer and newspaper editor," written by James Anderson, the historian for the Native Sons of Kansas City.
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Date
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1905-01-31
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Charles Spalding--Westport and Kansas City Town Booster
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Description
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File containing a photo and biographical article about Charles Carroll Spalding, or Charles Spalding (1826-1876), a pioneer promoter and writer of Kansas City. Native of Vermont coming to Kansas City in 1855 as city engineer (producing a famous map of Westport that year) and journalist for the Kansas City Enterprise, writing one of the city's first books in 1858, becoming city clerk in 1860, and dying partly from Civil War wounds.
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Date
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1996-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
