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Title: Park and Boulevard System
Description: Award program for the Park and Boulevard System as the National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark on October 21, 1974.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Recreation Advances in Kansas City
Description: Report on improvements to public recreation facilities "vested in the Division of Recreation of the Welfare Department, but close cooperation is given by the Park Department and the Board of Education," including playgrounds, tennis courts, swimming pools, baseball diamonds, etc.
Date: 1941-10
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Kansas City Centennial 1850-1950 - Souvenir Program
Description: 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.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Tall Oder for Park Charmers
Description: The Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners agreed to showcase six large sculptures by Mackenzie Thorpe at the Mill Creek Park. The oversize art works will be for sale. The Parks Department will receive a portion of the generated revenue.
Date: 2006-05-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Pedestrian Trail to Connect Cliff Drive to City Market
Description: The Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department has received a grant from the National Scenic Byway Program for the construction of a pedestrian and biking trail connecting the Cliff Drive Scenic Byway to the Riverfront Heritage Trail. The search for a construction and design company will begin in May 2013.
Date: 2012-08-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Rojas Adds to Duties
Description: Cici Rojas, president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City, became, what is believed to be, the first Hispanic commissioner on the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners. She was sworn in on Tuesday, May 13, 2003.
Date: 2003-05-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: What Makes Kansas City Fountains Royal Blue?
Description: Article detailing the process of dyeing Kansas City fountains different colors to raise awareness for a cause. Local company Blue Valley Laboratories produces nine different colors of fountain dye, and any organization can apply to dye one or more of eight fountains in the city. Money raised by dying the fountains goes into the Parks and Recreation Department's fountain maintenance and restoration fund.
Date: 2014-10-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Troupe Group Hopes to Raise Curtain on Space
Description: Article describes the Just Off Broadway Theater Association, a coalition of community theater groups based in Penn Valley Park at 3051 Central Avenue. The article reports a five-year agreement between the association and the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department, reached in December, 2005, giving the association greater responsibility for maintaining its building and the ability to raise funds for improvements and additions to it.
Date: 2005-12-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Sheffield Pool
Description: View of unidentified children swimming at Sheffield Pool and Shelter Building.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ashland Park
Description: View of junior wading pool at Ashland Park.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost Lake
Description: View of Troost Lake, located between 28th and 29th streets and Troost Avenue. The Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department received an award for urban design synergy in its restoration of Troost Lake.
Date: 1976
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Feline Exhibit Construction Site Sign
Description: Full view of a sign indicating the proposed site for a new feline exhibit at the Kansas City Zoo. Designer E. F. Corwin, Jr. received an award for his work on this and other signs put in place by the Kansas City, Missouri Parks and Recreation Department on park property under construction.
Date: 1972
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Budd Park, Sunday Picnic
Description: Postcard of a Sunday school Picnic at Budd Park in the Northeast area.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Postcard

Title: J. V. Lewis
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of J. V. Lewis, Superintendent of Parks from 1939-1963. Before becoming the superintendent, he worked as field engineer for the Park Department.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Street map of Kansas City showing parks, cemeteries, park district boundaries, and street car lines.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Map

Title: 3051 Penn Valley Drive
Description: Photograph of a Kansas City Parks Department maintenance building near the northwest corner of 31st and Wyandotte Street, on Penn Valley Drive. Designed by Root & Siemens and built in 1910, the building was originally a Parks District maintenance headquarters, but was serving as a storage building at the time of the photograph. The building was severely damaged by fire in 1991, leaving only the stone walls intact. St. Mary's Hospital can be seen in the background.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Park & Boulevard System: Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Street map of Kansas City showing parks, cemeteries, industrial districts, and park district boundaries.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Map

Title: Map Showing the Park and Boulevard System of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Map showing Kansas City's system of parks and boulevards. The city is divided into five parks districts: West Park, North Park, South Park, East Park, and Westport Park. Lists of parks with their areas in acres, boulevards with their distances in miles, and park drives with their distances in miles is included.
Date: 1906
Object Type: Map

Title: Miller Nichols and Anita Gorman at Eagle Statue Rededication
Description: Speakers at the dedication of refurbished statue. Anita Gorman and Miller Nichols are standing at the podium.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC32 George Kessler Collection Finding Aid
Description: This one box collection includes 16 landscape drawings done primarily by George Kessler, dated 1910 - 1916 and covering not only Penn Valley Park and North Terrace Park in Kansas City but also projects in China, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, St. Joseph, St. Louis, etc. It also includes two microfilm reels of official correspondence to and from the Board of Park Commisssioners, held in the same box as the drawings.
Date: 1895/1923
Object Type: Finding Aid

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