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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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Kansas City Metropolitan Area
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Description
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Plat map of the greater Kansas City area, including north Independence and southern Clay County.
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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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Transportation Map and Guide of Greater Kansas City
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Description
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Map of streetcar, trolley, and motor bus lines in Kansas City with an enlarged map of downtown area inset. Lines are identified by key on map. Also has a list of points of interest and downtown businesses as well as an index to service clubs, hotels, ticket offices, and theatres in the downtown area.
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Date
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1944
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City's Expressways
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Description
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Illustrated map showing the planned expressway system in the Kansas City area in 1952. Text printed on the map explains how the freeway system will work and how it will benefit the public. The map displays a plan to route the expressways close to the downtown area of Kansas City, Kansas, that was later changed.
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Date
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1952
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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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Historic Old Westport
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Description
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Map showing historic Westport, Missouri. Includes current and original street names, location of homes and businesses (including original and modern site, if relocated).
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri School Districts
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Description
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Map showing the boundary lines for Kansas City, Missouri schools. Roads, parks, streetcar, and rail lines are depicted, and schools are differentiated between "white schools" and "colored schools."
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Date
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1956
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Zoning Map of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Zoning map of Kansas City with shading indicating zoning districts. Key on map. "Red areas indicate the location of zoning changes during the period June 1952 to January 1956."
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Date
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1956
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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School Districts of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Blue-line map of Kansas City, Missouri, showing boundaries for lower grade schools in the Kansas City School District. Map includes an inset showing high school boundaries. Map also shows parks, cemeteries, bodies of water, streets, boulevards, proposed parkways, railroads, and streetcar lines.
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Date
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1930
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Section of Downtown Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Reproduction of map showing a section of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Map depicts the City Market area between Delaware, Charlotte, Independence Avenue, and 3rd Street. Lot numbers are included, and some properties include handwritten notes of owners' or occupants' names.
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Date
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1931
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Pocket Map of Greater Kansas City
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Description
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Road map of Kansas City and surrounding counties including Platte and Clay counties in Missouri, Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas. Includes indexes to streets, public schools, and parochial schools.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Greater Kansas City
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Description
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Road map of Kansas City and surrounding counties including Platte and Clay counties in Missouri, Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas.
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Date
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1957
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Construction Phases Map
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Description
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Map of the Kansas City area showing planned stages of consruction of the expressway system. The map was part of the City Plan Commission's publication Expressways - Greater Kansas City in 1951.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Transportation Map and Guide of Greater Kansas City
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Description
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Map of streetcar, trolley bus and motor bus lines in Kansas City; enlarged map of downtown area inset. Indexes points of interest, hotels, ticket offices. Reverse side includes descriptions of each bus and streetcar route.
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Date
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1954
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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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