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Title: Marlborough Heights Vertical File
Description: File contains several newspaper articles and an advertisement by the T. B. Potter Realty Co. (1907)
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Third--and Perhaps Final--Excursion to Marlborough Heights, Sunday, May 26th
Description: Ad for the possibly final free trip to visit the new (in 1907) Marlborough Heights residential district or addition to the city (between about 79th, 85th, Troost, and Prospect Avenues), owned by T. B. Potter of the T. B. Potter Realty Company and promoted as an "ideal Villa Tract setting" and the "'Garden Spot of Kansas City.'"
Date: 1907-05-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Marlborough Heights
Description: Page of the booklet describing housing, population, schools, and recreation for the area between 73rd, Paseo, 77th, and Holmes Streets, with map on the inside cover.
Date: 1905-05-01
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Children at Fairyland Park
Description: Exterior group portrait of children eating "cones" at Fairyland Park.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Children at Fairyland Park
Description: Group portrait of unidentified children eating "cones" at JP picnic; located at 75th and Prospect.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 2, 1940-1950, Page f004
Description: Graphic Map of Volumes and Key to Sanborn Map of Kansas City, Vol. 2 (corrected to October 1950), showing Kansas City area bounded by the Missouri River on the north, Elmwood Avenue on the east, 15th Street on the south, and Lydia Avenue on the west. It also shows railroads, the airport, parks, reservoirs, and indicates areas covered by other volumes.
Date: 1940/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Fairyland Park Swimming Pool
Description: Two unidentified girls seated by swimming pool at Fairyland Park. Sign behind them reads "Fairyland's Crystal Pool".
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: President Gardens Apartments Drawing
Description: Photograph of a drawing of the President Gardens apartment complex at 83rd Street and Troost Avenue. Notes at the bottom of the drawing identify the complex as Federal Housing Administration 608 Project, and Gentry & Voskamp of Kansas City, Missouri, as the architects.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC9 Abstracts Collection Finding Aid
Description: Assortment of abstracts, most of them for historical Kansas City areas, but a few are of other places. Documents are transcriptions or copies of transcriptions of the original documents. Abstracts include a variety of related documents, including will, divorce decrees, and similar documents that would affect ownership of property. Includes abstract for Shawnee Lands in Wyandotte County, Kansas involving the Bluejacket family; various properties in Westport and McGee's Addition; and McCoy's Lot 9 where Boone's Trading Post was built.
Date: 1832/1972
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: How Long Will the Citizens of Kansas City Tolerate Discrimination at Fairyland Park?
Description: Single page flyer urging readers to protest racial discrimination at Fairyland Park. The flyer was printed by the Kansas City, Missouri, Branch Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
Date: 1961
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Marlborough Heights
Description: Folder contains a promotional brochure entitled "A Glimpse of Marlborough Heights" [1922] and a fold-out publication produced by the T.B. Potter Reality Company which includes a bird's eye view of the development and a map as well as photographs [1907]. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
Date: 1907/1922
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Whippet-Knight Picnic
Description: Crowd gathered around stage for a drawing held at Fairyland Park during Whippet-Knight picnic.
Date: 1928-09-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Whippet-Knight Picnic
Description: Crowd examining display in pavilion at Fairyland Park during Whippet-Knight picnic.
Date: 1928-09-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fairyland Crystal Pool
Description: View looking southeast of the Fairyland Park Crystal Pool that was once located near the intersection of 75th Street and Prospect Avenue, with people swimming. A roller coaster can be seen in the background. The Caption on the photograph reads: Fairyland Crystal Pool - Built entirely of Haydite Concrete. 1-2-3 Mix. 8-9-1923.
Date: 1923-08-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4th Annual Picnic
Description: Group portrait taken at the 4th annual picnic of the South Central Business Association held at Fairyland Park.
Date: 1923-08-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Whippet Autos
Description: Whippet automobiles lined up in pavilion at Fairyland Park for the Whippet-Knight picnic.
Date: 1928-09-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Marlborough Heights Neighborhood
Description: The boundaries of Marlborough are matters of choice, since it never had any boundaries legally. Marlborough folk say it properly extends from Seventy-ninth to Eighty-fifth and from Troost avenue to Prospect avenue.
Date: 1947-07-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Marlborough Firehouse Gang
Description: Story of the renovation of the old neighborhood firehouse into a senior citizens social center at 73rd and Troost Streets, helped by a Mid-America Regional Council grant.
Date: 1985-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Resilient Marlborough
Description: Story about the constitution of the Marlborough Heights neighborhood, bounded by 79th, Troost, 89th, and Prospect Avenue, through changes starting in 1928, when it was a forest, to its 1947 incorporation into Kansas City, and later housing problems with decay, aided by the East Meyer Community Organization and community churches.
Date: 1985-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Another Kind of Food Truck
Description: The Beans & Greens Mobile Market brings a mobile unit filled with affordable fruits and vegetables to older, urban neighborhoods. Argentine, Marlborough, and the West Side benefit from this service. The markets started in mid-May and will run through late October. The program is coordinated by the Menorah Legacy Foundation.
Date: 2011-08-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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