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Title
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Kansas City Centennial 1850-1950 - Souvenir Program
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Description
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Souvenir program book the Kansas City centennial celebration. The book details the events, organizations involved, and people associated with the celebration. The book contains many advertisements and brief articles detailing the history of various Kansas City area businesses, organizations, and public figures. An index for the book can be found on page 144.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Briefs and Other Legal Documents of American Railroad Companies
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Description
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Documentation from a case in the Kansas City Court of Appeals between the Missouri Pacific Railway Company and Marion West (guardian of J. C. West) in March 1887, concerning one of West's mules killed by a Missouri Pacific train in 1883.
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Date
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1887
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Missouri Pacific Railroad
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and information on the Missouri Pacific Railroad running from Saint Louis to Kansas City by 1865 and carrying Kansas City's first train.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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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 "first railroad track laid into Kansas City, 1862," taken in 1869.
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Date
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1896
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Lewis Baldwin
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Description
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Photo and bio of Lewis Baldwin, "president of one of the largest railway systems in America, the Missouri Pacific Company," starting in 1896 in the railroad business as an engineer in Illinois, eventually becoming president of the Missouri Pacific in 1923.
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Date
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1905-04-13
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Quit Claim Deed: Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
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Description
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Photocopy of a quit claim deed notarized on July 2, 1971. The document lists the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company as the grantor and Lighting Industries, Incorporated as the grantee. The document references property at 801 Woodswether Road in the West Bottoms area of Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1971-07-02
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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6th Annual Goodfellowship Tour to Eureka Springs, Ark.
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Description
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Group portrait of participants of the South Central Business Association's 6th annual Good Fellowship Tour to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Crescent Lake and Lake Lucerne are noted on the photograph. The group is posed in front of a Missouri Pacific Railway train in Harrisonville, Missouri.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Railway Bridge
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Description
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Distant view from eastern shore of the Kansas River of entire bridge.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Missouri Pacific Railroad Bridge during 1903 Flood
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Description
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The Missouri Pacific Railroad Bridge over the Kansas River during the 1903 flood. The people in the image are standing at the footing of the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge, which was washed away during the flood.
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Date
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1903
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Missouri Pacific Railroad Cars
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Description
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Partial frontal view of company employment agency; unidentified man asleep on sidewalk in foreground.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 5, 1909-1938, Page p603
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from E. Front Street south to E. 1st Street and from N. Vine Street east to Woodland Avenue, showing buildings, streets, railroads, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1909/1938
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 5, 1909-1938, Page p605
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from E. Front Street south to Guinotte Avenue and from N. Garfield Avenue east to N. Park Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1909/1938
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 5, 1909-1938, Page p724
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City in the Leed's Industrial District, showing buildings, streets, and railroads. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area. At the top of page, "Add'l Sheet, Nov. 1928."
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Date
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1909/1938
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Object Type
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Map
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