Maps

Title: 1941 Highway Map of Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Map of county, state and United States roads in Jackson County, Missouri, including rural schools, churches and cemeteries. Legend includes conditions of roads. Regional map of Kansas City on back.
Date: 1941
Object Type: Map

Title: Base Map of Missouri
Description: Map of Missouri including railroad lines, cities over 5,000, counties and county seats, and elevations.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas State Highway System
Description: Map of Kansas showing routes and route numbers for roads, also designating types of road surfaces (e.g. gravel, hard surface, earth, etc.).
Date: 1929-04-01
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Wards and Precincts
Description: Map of Kansas City showing division into twenty-one sections, probably wards, with smaller subdivisions, probably voting precincts.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Aerial View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Aerial photograph of one square mile of Kansas City, Missouri showing 19th to 27th Streets and Paseo Boulevard. Lincoln High School and Municipal Stadium are visible. Map identified from set as Section 9, Township 49N, Range 33W, S-51.
Date: 1964-04
Object Type: Map

Title: Proposed Master Plan IX - Downtown Area
Description: Street map of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, displaying an early plan for an expressway loop surrounding the area. Proposed parking lots, garages, public buildings, parks, street improvements, freeways, and tunnels are indicated on the map.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Kansas
Description: Street map of Kansas City, Kansas, with indexes to streets, public and semi-public buildings, public schools and parochial schools. Large areas in color indicate industrial districts.
Date: 1941
Object Type: Map

Title: Central Industrial District, Kansas City, U.S.A.
Description: Map of central industrial district area including Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. Shows stockyards, railroad yards, railroad lines, freight houses, street car lines, bus lines and major companies. Reverse side includes aerial views and text, with statistics, promoting the district.
Date: 1936~
Object Type: Map

Title: Official Road Map of Missouri
Description: Road map of Missouri showing the state highway system and the various types of roads within that system, including concrete, asphalt, brick, gravel, oiled, and graded earth. Map also shows cities and towns, parks, bodies of water, counties, schools, colleges and universities, and hospitals. Map includes insets of the Kansas City and Saint Louis metropolitan areas. Verso of map lists distances between cities along specific highways and the towns encountered along those routes.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Map

Title: Pocket Map of Greater Kansas City
Description: Street map of Kansas City and environs, including Kansas City, Kansas, and North Kansas City, Missouri; inset map of Independence. Index lists schools, hospitals, and streets. Map shows parks, airports, levees and dikes.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Map

Title: Transportation Map and Guide of Greater Kansas City
Description: 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.
Date: 1944
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Missouri, School Districts
Description: Street map of Kansas City showing grade school and high school district lines; locations of schools also shown.
Date: 1946
Object Type: Map

Title: Soil Map of Missouri - Reconnaissance Survey
Description: Survey map of the state of Missouri provides detailed regional information about soil types (silt, clay, sand, etc.). Also included are locations of cities, rivers and lakes, railroads, and county lines.
Date: 1918
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City's Expressways
Description: 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.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Map

Title: Aerial View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Aerial photograph of one square mile of Kansas City, Missouri showing Swope Parkway, Meyer Boulevard, Southeast High School, and the edge of Swope Park. Map identified from set as Section 3, Township 48N, Range 33W, S-105.
Date: 1964-04
Object Type: Map

Title: Aerial View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Aerial photograph of one square mile of Kansas City, Missouri showing Interstate 70, Paseo Boulevard, and at least 7th through 12th Streets. The Parade Park is also visible. Map identified from set as Section 4, Township 49N, Range 33W, S-32.
Date: 1964-04
Object Type: Map

Title: Road Map of Miami County, Kansas
Description: Road map of Miami County, Kansas, showing roads, townships, railroads, cemeteries, pipelines, etc.
Date: 1983
Object Type: Map

Title: A Sketch of the Vice Royalty Exhibiting the Several Provinces and Its Approximation to the Internal Provinces of New Spain
Description: Map of territory in North America, specifically Mexico under the government of Spain, including roads, capitals of provinces, Spanish villages, Indian towns, etc.
Object Type: Map

Pages