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Title
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Westport Map
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Description
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File contains maps, illustrations, and information on the 1855 map of Westport, Missouri by Charles Carroll Spalding, or C. C. Spalding, an early Kansas City civil engineer, journalist, author, and town promoter.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Spalding Memorial
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Description
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View of the Charles Carroll Spalding Memorial located in Penn Valley Park. The inscription on the rock reads: "To the Author of Annals of the City of Kansas and the Great Western Plains, 1858, Charles Carroll Spalding - Who in the Day of Small Things Had the Bold Vision to Forsee the Future City."
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Spalding 1855 Map of Westport
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Description
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Photograph of the 1855 "Westport, Mo. and Its Additions" map by Charles C. Spalding as it appeared in some publication dated January 16, 1947.
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Date
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1947-01-16
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Charles Spalding
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Description
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Biographical essay about Charles Carroll Spalding, or Charles Spalding (also known as C. C. Spalding) in the reprint edition, the author of "Annals of the City of Kansas" in 1858 and "one of the original merchants of the town of Kansas," as a "city engineer and newspaper editor," written by James Anderson, the historian for the Native Sons of Kansas City.
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Date
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1905-01-31
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Westport, Mo. & Its Additions
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Description
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Map of early Westport, with comments by the map's creator or cartographer, Charles Spalding.
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Date
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1855
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Spalding 1855 Map of Westport
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Description
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The 1855 Spalding map of Westport, Missouri, which hangs in the Special Collections Department as of September 26, 1974, is on indefinite loan to the Kansas City Public Library from the Daughters of Old Westport. Background information on the map is found in the local clubs collection, "SC 8."
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Westport Mo. and Its Additions
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Description
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Early map of Westport, Missouri, shows streets with names and width; some residences like Col. A. Boone; and the Godfrey Vineyard. A “Table of Distances” gives miles from Westport to places like San Francisco; Salt Lake City; Astoria, Oregon; Santa Fe; etc. It notes population of Westport in 1846 as 300 and in 1855 as 1500. It includes an inset map of Missouri, beginning around Jefferson City, and Kansas, showing rivers and roads, especially the Salt Lake City and California road.
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Date
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1855-07
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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The Founding of Westport, Mo.: Charles Spalding, Westport and Kansas City's First Town Booster
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Charles Carroll Spalding, or Charles Spalding (1826-1876 ca.), perhaps the first civic booster or promoter for Kansas City and Westport. Native of Vermont coming to Kansas City about the mid-1850s as city engineer (appointed in 1855 and producing a map of Westport there) and newspaper writer (hired in 1856 on the Kansas City Enterprise by editor Robert Van Horn). Author of the 1858 book (one of the first published in Kansas City) "Annals of the City of Kansas" and city clerk in 1860 before returning to Vermont and serving the Union in the Civil War.
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Date
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1978-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Charles Spalding--Westport and Kansas City Town Booster
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Description
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File containing a photo and biographical article about Charles Carroll Spalding, or Charles Spalding (1826-1876), a pioneer promoter and writer of Kansas City. Native of Vermont coming to Kansas City in 1855 as city engineer (producing a famous map of Westport that year) and journalist for the Kansas City Enterprise, writing one of the city's first books in 1858, becoming city clerk in 1860, and dying partly from Civil War wounds.
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Date
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1996-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
