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Title: Goal in the Clouds
Description: Need for workers in new aircraft manufacturing plant in Kansas City making Navy airplanes for the war effort.
Date: 1944-04-22
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A War's On, and 'Maybe I can Help': Her Job in '44-45 Was Inspecting Airplane Engines
Description: During World War II, Molly Bean felt she needed to do something to help out. So she went to Pratt & Whitney, local company building engines for World War II aircraft. Article has photo of Molly Bean and reviews what her job entailed.
Date: 2003-02-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Tribute to Mid-West: Area Praised at Pratt & Whitney Farewell Dinner
Description: Article reviewing the short but busy history of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Corporation in Kansas City. It was a manufacturing complex for the World War II effort, completed in August 1943 with its first airplane engine produced in December 1943.
Date: 1945-09-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Pratt and Whitney Complex
Description: Aerial view of complex, looking northwest.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pratt and Whitney Complex
Description: Aerial view of complex, looking north.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pratt and Whitney Complex
Description: Aerial view of complex, looking northwest.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomson Building
Description: Full frontal view; located at 1013-15 Walnut. Shows Pratt & Whitney Employment Office as occupant.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pratt and Whitney Complex
Description: Aerial view of complex, looking northeast.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pratt and Whitney Complex
Description: Aerial view of complex, looking northeast.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pratt and Whitney Complex
Description: Aerial view of complex, looking northeast.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pratt and Whitney Complex
Description: Aerial view of complex, looking south.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 9, 1930-1957, Page p1117
Description: A portion of Kansas City from about E. 91st Street south to Bannister Road and from Troost Avenue east to about Woodland Avenue, showing the Naval Industrial Reserve Plant and surrounding buildings at Troost Avenue and Bannister Road (95th Street).
Date: 1930/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Pratt and Whitney Complex
Description: Aerial view looking southeast of the Pratt and Whitney complex at 9307-9447 Troost Avenue near its intersection with Bannister Road.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City, Missouri, Telephone Directory
Description: Unverified listing of the plant in operation from 1943-1946 at Bannister and Troost Streets.
Date: 1943/1946
Object Type: Book

Title: Engine Plant to WAA: RFC Passes Control of Former Pratt & Whitney Factory
Description: News about the former Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine manufacturing plant, the "largest Kansas City war plant," vacant but planned for use by civilian light industry companies.
Date: 1946-12-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Riveted to KC History
Description: Article focuses upon the experiences of Kansas City women who worked in aviation assembly plants during World War II. Several women are interviewed and describe their lives before, during, and after the war.
Date: 2015-01-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Brief History of Manufacturing
Description: Manuscript surveys the history of the Pratt & Whitney/Westinghouse plant in Kansas City, Missouri from 1942 through the 1990s, concentrating particularly on the war years. Numerous copies of photographs, other graphics, and clippings accompany the text.
Date: 2003~
Object Type: Manuscript