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Title
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Hughes' Kansas City Views
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Description
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Photo of the "residence of John A. Prescott [or John Prescott], 3416 Baltimore Avenue."
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Date
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1900
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Historic Kansas City Architecture
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Description
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Book contains a photo and caption about the "early Westport home" built in about 1855, located at 4000 Baltimore Avenue.
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Date
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1975
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Was it Bomb?
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Description
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Article describes a probable bombing of the First National Bank of Kansas City (14 W. 10th Street). An explosion, which injured nine people, erupted in an employee lavatory near the vault of the bank.
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Date
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2008-01-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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William Shelley Home
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Description
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File containing a nomination form for the National Register for the William Francis Shelley, or William Shelley home at 3601 Baltimore Avenue, built in 1887-1889 as "one of the oldest original remaining residences erected in Hyde Park." Shelley native to Iowa and coming to Kansas City as "treasurer for the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company" before becoming a private broker and accountant dying in 1913.
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Object Type
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Report
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Title
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Baltimore Street
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Description
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Photos and information about the development of various buildings and other structures on Baltimore Avenue since the 19th century.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Ruling on Bretton's Bankruptcy Action
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Description
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Article about the closing of Bretton's Incorporated, once one of Downtown's most popular restaurants.
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Date
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1976-03-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Auction Claims All That Made Bretton's
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Description
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Photos and text about the auction of the equipment of the restaurant at 1215 Baltimore Avenue.
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Date
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1976-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Baltimore Avenue
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Description
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The description on the back of the photograph reads: "Balt. Ave. looking north from 14th St. Bldg on left is the K.C. Club bldg. and on the right is Kansas City's largest retail furniture store, the Robt. Keith Co." The building immediately across from the Kansas City Club is the President Hotel. The furniture store is just north of the hotel. The New York Life Insurance Building is in view at the end of the street. A city bus is also in view on the street going south.
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Date
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1936
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Defining Downtown
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Description
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Portion of larger article about downtown. Includes a colored map of the 8 major districts downtown. Also included is a sequence of graphics detailing businesses and buildings of a 4-block area encompassing 9th St. to 11th St. and Main to Wyandotte St. in the 1920s, 1950s, 1980s and the 2000s. This includes 10th and Baltimore, the location of the First National Bank that will become the Central Branch of the Kansas City Public Library.
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Date
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2002-09-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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13th Street
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Description
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Looking east along the north side of 13th between Baltimore and Wyandotte.
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Date
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1929
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Brickyard and Quarry near Brush Creek
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Description
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View looking south of brickyard and quarry located south of Brush Creek, west of Main Street. Shows grade of 49th Street and Baltimore Avenue (178 ft) and 49th Street and Main Street (147 ft.),
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Date
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1926
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Baltimore Avenue at 42nd Street
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Description
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View of northeast corner of 42nd Street and Baltimore Avenue. Includes several houses "to be condemned" to make way for a roadway connecting to Main Street at 41st Street.
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Date
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1926
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Bunker Building
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Description
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View facing northwest of the entrance to the Bunker Building, 820 Baltimore Avenue. Architect Kenneth M. Frashier received an award for his work on the building's restoration.
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Date
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1978
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Object Type
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Photograph
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