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Title: Novelty Carriage Works
Description: Description of business owned by W. H. Brundage at the corner of Wyandotte and Fourth Street.
Date: 1879
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Grimes Wagon CO.
Description: Description of a business located at the corner of Second and Main streets manufacturing wagon and carriages owned by W. C. Grimes.
Date: 1879
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Sam'l L. Yourtee & Co.
Description: Description of dealer in "Buggies, Carriages, Phaetons, Farm and Spring Wagons" at 410 Main Street, established in 1879.
Date: 1879
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Ex-Slave Was a Success in Early Independence
Description: Biographical article with photo about Hiram Young (1815-1882), a wagon-maker and ex-slave in 19th century Independence, Missouri. Young is described as "one of the richest men in Jackson County" by 1860 and "one of the area's first successful businessmen." He also helped to start a school for black children in Independence and to bring the African Methodist Episcopal Church there. "Young School opened in 1874 under the direction of the Independence School District. It was replaced with a new building in 1934, and it remained a blacks-only school until the U.S. Supreme Court ordered schools to desegregate in 1954. It later housed special education classes but was closed in 1979 and now is a warehouse for the district's food service program."
Date: 1986-02-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: War Bond Drive Parade
Description: Covered wagon and security officer in a parade procession on the north side of the Independence Square. The parade took place May 16, 1949 as part of the Opportunity Bond campaign.
Date: 1949-05-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. S. Black
Description: Advertising card for "J. S. Black, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Buggies, Carriages, Phaetons, Farm and Spring Wagons." Card has image of Andrew Jackson in front of pillars and caption giving personal and presidential dates. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 421 Walnut St., Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Men and Women on a Wagon
Description: View from behind of a small group of spectators seated and standing on a wagon watching an outdoor event (possibly a polo match). Several Packard automobiles are parked in the background.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Men and Women on a Wagon
Description: Small group of spectators seated and standing on a wagon watching an event (possibly a polo match). Several Packard automobiles are parked in the background.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Tales of an Old Timer
Description: Autobiographical article in two parts by W. Z. Hickman, or William Zere Hickman (son of the founder of Hickman's Mill) about his experiences in 1865, "employed by the firm of Shrewsbury, Slemmons & Co., as an assistant wagon master, to take a train load of goods from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union, New Mexico," with an illustration. Part two tells about his experiences in 1865 with Indians around Fort Larnard.
Date: 1897-02-15
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Denver or Die! The Bloody Saga of the Butterfield Overland Despatch
Description: Article about the short history of the Butterfield Overland Despatch Express, a passenger and freight stage that ran from Atchison, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado, not to be confused with the Butterfield Overland Trail. The first wagon train left for Denver on June 25, 1865. Trouble with Indians caused the enterprise to fail.
Date: 2008-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Santa Fe Trail Rut
Description: Identification as written on the back of the photograph: "Rut from wagons on original Santa Fe Trail, on so. 10 acre tract of No. 21 acres, Herman Hodes and Fred J. Dreiling, which extends from Holmes St. to Oak Street at Santa Fe Road and Oak. NW 1/4 - SE 1/4-Sec. 8-47-33. Rut is on Santa Fe Trail Road on east side, tract is south east of the Avila College property. This land now belongs to the Western District of the Luthern Church-Missouri Synod." Ruts are also called swales.
Date: 1968-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: F. Richard Weber
Description: Biographical sketch of F. Richard Weber, a lawyer since 1921 born in Kansas City in 1895. Description of his father, Frederick Weber, Sr., a wagonmaker emigrating from Germany to Saint Louis in 1847 and relocating in the late 1840s to Westport Landing (later Kansas City, Missouri) and then Wyandotte, Kansas (later Kansas City, Kansas), moving back to the Missouri side in 1856 as owner of "the site now occupied by Thompson's restaurant on Main street for his wagon factory."
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book Section

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