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Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of the "residence of J. H. Ricksecker, 3448 Troost Ave."
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book

Title: Troost Avenue
Description: File with articles about Troost Avenue.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of the "residence of Webster Withers, Troost Ave. and 31st Street."
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book

Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of the "residence of A. P. Barton, 3332 Troost Ave."
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book

Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of the "residence of O. D. Woodward, 3324 Troost" Avenue.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book

Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of Troost Avenue, looking north from Linwood Boulevard.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book

Title: Neighborhood Forms Association
Description: History of the neighborhood around 47th and Troost Avenues, depicted in Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy." Description of the neighborhood originally centered around the 48th and Harrison trolley barn, and its neighborhood organization formed to help its residents with planning issues such as flood recovery.
Date: 1977-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Multimillionaire Kept Low Profile
Description: Article on Lamon Vernon Harkness, who lived in Kansas City, Missouri from 1888 to 1891. Harkness inherited his wealth from his father, S.V. Harkness, who was a partner in Standard Oil. He was reported to be one of the wealthiest men in the United States, �??second only to Rockefeller.�?� Harkness built a mansion at 3125 Troost Avenue in an area called �??Millionaire�??s Row.�?� He did not stay in Kansas City long, leaving in 1891 to move to Kentucky.
Date: 1990-02-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hello, Troost
Description: Rising prices in the Crossroads Districts have sent some artists east looking for affordable space. Article describes several artists who have located on Troost Avenue: Robert Frazier Gallery, Horne and Tesluk Private Studio, Simmons and Buntin Private Studio and Garden, Telephonebooth Gallery and Winka Press, Ideal Garment & Scientific Panty, Greenlease Gallery, and Durwin Rice Gallery. Locations of each gallery are shown on a map.
Date: 2007-08-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Town Topic--Across the Great Divide
Description: Article about the improvements and lingering stigma of the Troost Avenue as a boundary line for the east part of town's racial, socioeconomic, and crime problems, despite revived businesses in the corridor, roughly between 47th, Main, 75th, and Prospect Avenues.
Date: 1999-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: South Troost Development Lines Mark Expansion of Trade Artery: Improvements Enhance City's Longest Street from 27th to 75th--Several New Buildings Ready for Occupancy
Description: Article with photos and description of the widening and paving of Troost Avenue ("the longest street in the city") south to 75th Street in the 1920s, coinciding with other building and business development along it ("engineered by the Westbrook Investment company," led by David Proctor and N. W. Dible).
Date: 1929-12-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Interview with Bob and Bruce Gershon
Description: Interview with Bruce and Bob Gershon about the history of their family company, Arrowhead Fabricare Services. They discuss the building's construction at the corner of 39th and Troost, salvaging furs and leather goods from Plaza stores after the 1977 flood, their garment company clients, a venture into hat-making, and share stories about their lives, families, and the dry-cleaning business.
Date: 2009-10-24
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Growing a Community on Troost
Description: Article previews the second annual Troost Avenue Festival, scheduled for May 21, 2006, at 31st and Troost. The festival seeks to build community along the Troost Avenue corridor with "music, dancing and sharing."
Date: 2006-05-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: East-Side Rejuvenation
Description: Article briefly describes the historic dividing line between black and white neighborhoods in Kansas City, Troost Avenue. The economic rejuvenation of the east side of Kansas City is examined.
Date: 2002-04-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: My Times, My Town
Description: Walt Bodine writes about his father's drugstore located at the corner of Linwood and Troost in Kansas City. He also discribes the area around the store as he remembers it when he was young.
Date: 1905-06-25
Object Type: Book

Title: 12th Street
Description: Looking east along 12th Street from the west side of Troost Avenue.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 12th Street
Description: Looking east along 12th from the west side of Troost.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost Avenue
Description: Looking south along Troost Avenue from 12th Street.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost Avenue
Description: Looking north along Troost from the south side of 12th.
Date: 1933-11-25
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost Avenue
Description: Looking south along the east side of Troost from the south side of 12th. Shows a stopped streetcar.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Photograph

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