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Title
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Missouri Redistricting
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Description
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Information on the new voting districts laid out in 1932 for the state of Missouri.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City Metropolitan Area
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Description
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Maps, photos, tables, statistics and other information on the Greater Kansas City metropolitan area or metro area) and its changing boundaries (according primarily to the United States Census Bureau), growth of suburbs and population, and reports by planning agencies (especially the Metropolitan Planning Commission established in 1966 in the City Hall of Kansas City, Missouri), etc., back to the early 1930s.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City Population In 1969
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Description
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Kansas City metropolitan area in 1969: 3,226 square miles. Statistics taken from the City Planning Department.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City's Annexed Areas
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Description
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Maps, illustrations, and information on the history of the geographical growth of Kansas City and its various city annexations and surrounding suburbs, etc., back to its beginnings. Related information as well, including chronology of new towns in the metropolitan area and their populations, changing borders of cities, and migration of ethnic groups, etc.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Out of the East Bottoms
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Description
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Geographical and historical article about the Centropolis and East Bottoms areas of Kansas City. In his "Behind the Lines" column, George Gurley relates some of the reader feedback received about his earlier mis-definition of the geographical boundaries of the East Bottoms, which are said here to be strictly between the Missouri River and the bluffs just south of it in Northeast Kansas City, and bound on the east by Chouteau Trafficway and on the west by Paseo Boulevard. Centropolis and Sheffield are distinguished as being to the south of the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks.
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Date
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1987-02-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Keep Northeast Separate
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Description
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Announcement of the "redrawing" of the the "district boundaries" of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, involving the effort of the Northeast neighborhood to keep its voting districts south of the Missouri River through its state senator Ronnie DePasco and state representative Henry Rizzo.
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Date
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2000-12-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Indian Tribes in North and Central America
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Description
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Blueprint of remarkably comprehensive map showing, apparently, all known locations of Indian tribes from the Arctic Circle to the northwest corner of South America, including the areas of present-day Canada, Alaska, United States, Mexico, West Indies, and Central America.
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Watson's New Sectional Map of Missouri
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Description
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Color shaded map of Missouri including information about Missouri government, townships, roads, railroads, an historical sketch of the state, and an insert of St. Louis.
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Date
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1870
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Gallup's Map of Wyandotte County, Kansas
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Description
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Land ownership map of Wyandotte County, Kansas, showing county roads, roads, railroads, electric railroads, schools, churches, cemeteries, streams, and township boundaries, as well as drilling, oil, gas, dry, and abandoned wells. Includes the townships of Prairie, Quindaro, Wyandotte, Delaware, and Shawnee.
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Date
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1923
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Street map of Kansas City showing parks, cemeteries, park district boundaries, and street car lines.
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Date
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1926
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Extension of City Limits Kansas City MO, At Different Periods
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Description
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Map identifying the areas annexed by the city of Kansas City, Missouri, in the years 1853, 1859, 1875, 1885, 1897, and 1909. The city limits in 1909 were the Missouri River south to 79th Street, and State Line Road east as far as Booth Avenue.
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Date
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1909
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Post Route Map of the States of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri
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Description
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Map subtitle states that map depicts "post offices, with the intermediate distances between them and mail routes in operation on the 1st February 1884". Map primarily depicts entire state of Iowa, with adjacent sections of neighboring states, including extreme northern Missouri, eastern Nebraska, Dakota Territory, southern Minnesota, southeast Wisconsin, and northern Illinois, and extreme northwest Indiana. The southern half of the map, depicting Kansas, Arkansas, and the majority of Missouri, has not been located. Map also includes counties in covered territory, railroad lines, and rivers. Outer boundaries of map denote latitude and longitude, as well as local time in relation to Washington, DC.
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Date
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1884
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Ownership Map of River Market Area
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Description
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Land ownership map of the River Market area of Kansas City, Missouri (section 32, township 50, range 33), identified as "Old Town." The boundaries include the Missouri River south to Independence Avenue, Broadway east to Cherry Street.
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Date
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1910~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Township Lines 1973
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Description
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Map shows township boundaries for Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1973
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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St. Clair County, Missouri (eastern half)
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Description
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Photocopy of St. Clair County, Missouri, plat map, eastern half, including owners' names and showing rivers, railroads, and towns. Handwritten at bottom in ink: "Xerox copy from original plat book of St. Clair County, Missouri, c. 1900-03; original plat book in library of the Mo. State Historical Society. T38N R24W."
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Date
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1900~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri, School Districts
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Description
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Street map of Kansas City showing grade school and high school district lines; locations of schools also shown.
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Date
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1946
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Map of Macon County, Missouri
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Description
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Map of Macon County, Missouri, including roads, railroads, schools, churches, and cemeteries. Includes townships of Drake, Easley, Richland, La Plata, Johnston, White, Walnut Creek, Independence, Lyda, Jackson, Russell, Valley, Liberty, Eagle, Ten Mile, Lingo, Allao, Bevier, Hudson, Round Grove, Morrow, Chariton, Narrows, and Middle Fork. Includes city of Macon.
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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General Highway Map, Clinton County, Missouri
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Description
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Black and white road map features all types of roads, railroads, bridges, as well as political boundaries, landscape features, and tourist amenities.
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Date
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1962
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Clay County Missouri
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Description
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Detailed map of Clay County, Missouri depicts county and city boundaries, interstates, state, and county highways, as well as many primary and secondary surface streets within particular localities. Also noted are parks, schools, hospitals, and townships. Of particular note is an illustration of the proposed site of the Smithville Reservoir in northern Clay County, which in 1979 became Smithville Lake.
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Date
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1965
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Object Type
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Map
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