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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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Joseph S. Chick
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Description
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Portrait of Joseph Smith Chick, an early Kansas City banker.
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Object Type
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Title
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Kansas City Views and Buildings Featured in Harper's Weekly
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Description
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This two-page spread of engravings of views of Kansas City, Missouri, "from photographs by D. D. Thomson & Co.," was published as a supplement to Harper's Weekly, September 15, 1888, pages 702 and 703. It includes the New England Building; Board of Trade Building; Packing House District; YMCA Building; Post Office; New York Life Insurance Building; Kansas City Club House; entrance to the tunnel of the elevated railroad; The Junction at 9th and Main streets; 9th Street Cable Railway Incline; and the view "From the Tower of the Cathedral," centering on the Coates Hotel. The reverse side, pages 701 and 704 (not digitized), has the banner headline "The Gateway of Kansas" for an article written by William Willard Howard and includes engravings of the National Exposition Building; First Congregational Church; Warner Grand Opera House; head portraits of C. Ralph Evans, Manager of the National Exposition Company, Victor B. Buck, President of the National Exposition Company and Edward H. Allen [President of the Board of Trade]; and John Doggett's House.
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Date
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1888
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Missouri Avenue
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Description
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Oil on canvas painting (19.5 in. x 23.5 in.) of Missouri Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Stamped in several places on the back of the wooden stretcher frame as well as back of the painting: “Public Works of Art Project.” Written with black paint on the back of the painting: “Missouri Avenue/Kansas Cy, MO/Otto Moilan.”
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Date
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1930~/1939~
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Eighth Street
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Description
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Oil on canvas painting (23.5 in. x 27.25 in.) of Eighth Street in Kansas City, Missouri, showing entrance to tunnel. Stamped on the back of the wooden stretcher frame in several places as well as back of the painting: “Public Works of Art Project.” Written with black paint on the back of the painting: “Eighth Street/Kansas City/Otto Moilan.” The number 27 is written in black paint on the back of the frame.
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Date
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1930~/1939~
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Hilton Inn Rendering
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Description
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Design rendering of the Hilton Inn that once stood at 6th and Washington streets at the northern end of Quality Hill.
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Date
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1970~/1979~
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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William Volker
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Description
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Charcoal pencil drawing of William Volker (1859-1947) by artist Frank Goodman (1892-1944), head of The Kansas City Star art department. Note attached to back of framed drawing reads: "Mr. Goodman presented this Wm. Volker portrait to the library. I would suggest that Mr. Van Millet be consulted as to framing, PBW" (Purd Wright).
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Achelous and Hercules
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Description
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Photograph of the 1947 Thomas Hart Benton mural Achelous and Hercules. The painting was once on display in Harzfeld's department store, but is now in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. A reproduction of the painting made from this photograph is on display in Kirk Hall in the Central Library at 14 W. 10th Street.
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Coca-Cola Building and Vicinity
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Description
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Promotional drawing produced by the Ennis-Edwards Realty Company and included within a booklet promoting the advantages of the Coca-Cola Building. The illustration highlights the building's close proximity to the Liberty Memorial, Union Station, rail lines, major streets, the downtown hotel district, the retail district, the office building district, and the headquarters of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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The Automobile Club of Kansas City Cover
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Description
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Cover of a booklet published by the Automobile Club of Kansas City to promote a racing event held at Elm Ridge Track on October 17, 1908. The illustration of early automobile racers was created by the David E. Sweeny Company.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Fire Service of Kansas City Cover
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Description
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Front cover of Fire Service of Kansas City: A Souvenir, Containing An Account of the Service, From Leather Bucket Times to the Present Fire Department, published in 1891. A firefighter driving a horse drawn steam pumper fire engine is shown.
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Date
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1891
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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My Warmest Wishes for the New Year Sketch
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Description
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Sketch of five Baby New Year figures celebrating New Year's Day 1890. Another figure represents 1889 being chased away from the party. The central figure is firing a pistol into the air and waiving a banner. Written on the right hand margin of the drawing in German is: My warmest wishes for the New Year.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Parade Float Sketch
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Description
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Sketch of a parade float by German-born Kansas City artist William Weber. A figure on the float is standing near a plow. Another is reading from a pulpit. Others are seated.
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Parade Float Sketch
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Description
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Sketch of a parade float by German-born Kansas City artist William Weber. The figures on the float are dressed in military Civil War-era costumes and moving a cannon. A shield near the front of the float reads 61. Illegible notes are written along the top and bottom margins of the drawing.
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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T. J. Pendergast Caricature
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Description
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Drawing of Thomas J. Pendergast. Tom Pendergast is shown running his wholsale liquors business.
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Date
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1912
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Object Type
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Artwork
