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Title
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Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Aerial view of Kansas City from the northeast. Buildings, railroad lines, and other features rendered pictorially. Key at bottom of map identifies churches, schools, reservoirs, businesses, etc. Street names are shown. Hannibal Bridge is shown open for river traffic.
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Date
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1878
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Bird's Eye View - Kansas City
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Description
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Pictorial map showing the cities and towns of Kansas City, Missouri; Harlem, Missouri; Westport, Missouri; Rosedale, Kansas; Argentine, Kansas; Armourdale, Kansas; Armstrong, Kansas; Riverview, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; and Wyandotte, Kansas. At the time of its publication, the map had an extensive key listing the numbered buildings, most of which has been removed. Steamboats traveling along the Missouri River can be seen. The map displays the steep bluffs and topography of the region. It also indicates Kansas City's expansion southward away from the Missouri River, the development of the stockyards industry in the West Bottoms and interconnectivity with the surrounding cities and towns that followed completion of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Stranger's Guide to Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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A reproduction of the 1887 Case and Norman's Stranger's Guide which appeared in The Kansas City Star around 1927 that shows an aerial view of business and industrial districts of Kansas City as seen from the northwest. Indicates population in 1887 as 160,000 and in 1880 as 57,000. Prominent landmarks, buildings, and businesses are numbered to correlate with list at the bottom. Portion of text on map reads: "The map reproduced above shows the city of 'Forty Years Ago' whose social and industrial activities are reflected daily in the familiar column under that caption in the Star's morning edition. Supplement to the Kansas City Commercial."
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Aerial view of Kansas City from the northeast. Buildings, railroad lines, and other features are rendered pictorially. Key at bottom of map identifies churches, schools, reservoirs, businesses, etc. Street names are shown. The Hannibal Bridge is shown open for river traffic.Typed note taped to back of map reads, "George Ehrlich did extensive research to determine the date of this map - 1878 lithograph, Bird's Eye View, for his 1979 book "Kansas City, Mo.: An Architectural History, 1826-1976."
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Date
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1878
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Bird's Eye View of Early Kansas City
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Description
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Framed (14 in. x 20 in.) map which is a reproduction of "Case & Norman's Stranger's Guide to Kansas City, Missouri." Caption at bottom reads: "To accommodate Kansas City newcomers, this 1887 map often rotated structures to present frontal views of buildings for easier identification." Map is a bird's eye view of Kansas City situated where the Kansas and Missouri Rivers converge. Includes an inset which is an advertisement for the National Agricultural Exposition held in 1887 and features the Crystal Palace or Exposition Building. This map was reproduced by the library's Marketing Department to sell in the early 1990s.
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Date
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1887
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Bird's-Eye View of West Terrace Showing Suggested Improvements
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Description
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Drawing showing the West Bottoms, West Terrace, West Bluffs, and Downtown areas of Kansas City, Missouri, created to display suggested improvements to the area that would become West Terrace Park. Item appears within the first report of the Kansas City Board of Park and Boulevard Commissioners.
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Date
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1893
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Case & Norman's Stranger's Guide to Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Aerial view of Kansas City seen from northwest. Shows streets, bridges, buildings, and railroads. Many buildings are identified. Continuation of title: ". . . showing principal points of interest correctly drawn and located, including most of the public buildings."
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Date
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1887
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Sepia-toned aerial view from the northeast, showing the Missouri River, Hannibal Bridge, and the city of Kansas City with streets and buildings marked. Points of interest (churches, etc.) numbered; key on back of map. Also on the back is handwritten, "Star, Sept. 30, 1928."
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Date
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1869
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Object Type
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Map
