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Title
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Westport High School
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Description
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Exterior view of Westport High School at 39th and McGee (Hyde Park Ave) and Oak Streets.
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Date
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1910
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School
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Description
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Street level view of repair work in progress at Westport High School.
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Date
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1990
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School Cafeteria
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Description
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Interior view with students and teachers having lunch in the Westport High School cafeteria.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School
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Description
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Partial frontal and side view.
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Date
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1915
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School
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Description
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Partial frontal view; located at 315 E. 39th Street.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p527
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from E. 39th Street south to E. 40th Street and from Walnut Street east to Locust Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1909/1950
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Westport High School Gym
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Description
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Interior view of the Westport High School gym. Basketball goals and bleachers on each side of the court can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Haydite Reinforced Slab at Top pf View. Westport High School.
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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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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1895-1907, Page p090
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Description
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Southern part of early Kansas City in the Hyde Park area on the outskirts of Westport from about E. 39th Street south to E. 40th Street and from Main Street east to McGee Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1895/1907
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Vacuum Cleaner Inventors
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Description
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Article explaining a vacuum cleaner invented by Westport High School teachers Daniel Hall and Charles Hermann.
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Date
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1908-11-25
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Westport High School
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Description
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Most of the items in this folder pertain to a Westport High School 25th class reunion held in 1963. These items include program events, rosters, and a reunion booklet. The folder also contains a printed daily program dated 1919 and a commencement program dated 1924. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
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Date
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1919/1963
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Westport Junior High School & Westport High School
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Description
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Photograph of Westport Junior High School, foreground, and Westport High School, background, on 39th Street circa 1980. The high school was built in 1908, and the middle school was built in 1924 as a junior high school, and served as Kansas City Junior College from 1942 to 1969, and then a temporary location for Manual High School from 1969 to 1977, then returned to use as a junior high, and later middle, school. Both school buildings were closed by the Kansas City School District in 2010, and sold to private developers in 2014.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School
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Description
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Photograph of Westport High School on 39th Street circa 1980. The high school was built in 1908. Westport High School was closed by the Kansas City School District in 2010, and sold to private developers in 2014.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport High School Reunion
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Description
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Group portrait of individuals attending the 65th reunion of the Class of 1926.
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Date
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1981-05
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Corporate Education Comes to Westport
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Description
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Discusses the establishment of a corporately-owned charter school at the former Westport Junior High and High Schools and at the former Westport Allen Center.
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Date
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1999-06-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Plan: Repurpose Westport High as a School
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Description
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Article discussing proposals made to the Kansas City Public Schools for the empty Westport High School and Westport Middle School. The plans call for converting the schools into market-rate apartments, buildings for independent senior housing, or to reuse Westport High School as a private school and the middle school as a center for nonprofit organizations. Both schools, along with 28 others, were closed in 2010 due to declining enrollment.
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Date
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2012-08-31
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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