Maps

Title: Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: 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.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Map

Title: Extension of City Limits Kansas City MO, At Different Periods
Description: Map identifying the areas annexed by the city of Kansas City, Missouri, in the years 1853, 1859, 1875, 1885, 1897, and 1909. The city limits in 1909 were the Missouri River south to 79th Street, and State Line Road east as far as Booth Avenue.
Date: 1909
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: Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Description: Black and white map of Kansas City and surrounding communities shows highways and roads, railroads, section lines, towns, townships, county and state lines, parks, streams, and rivers.
Date: 2009
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Downtown Map
Description: Map of downtown Kansas City neighborhoods and districts. Includes roads, highways, interstates, buildings and points of interest.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Map

Title: The Berry Company's Map of Kansas City
Description: Map of Kansas City, Missouri, indicating streets, hospitals, schools, and owners of land plots, south as far as 83rd St., east to just beyond the Blue River. Map cover includes post office hours, names and addresses of office buildings as well as city, county, and federal buildings, libraries and reading rooms, theaters, and parks.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Centennial Map, 1850-1950
Description: Generalized map of Kansas City area, using drawings to illustrate important historical events. Shows changes in city limits over time.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Stranger's Guide to Kansas City, Missouri
Description: 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."
Date: 1927
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Centennial Map, 1850-1950
Description: Generalized map of Kansas City area, using drawings to illustrate important historical events. Shows changes in city limits over time.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: 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."
Date: 1878
Object Type: Map

Title: Case & Norman's Stranger's Guide to Kansas City, Missouri
Description: 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."
Date: 1887
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Map of Jackson County, Missouri, depicting roads (graded, rock, county), railroads, streams, schools, and churches. Includes townships of Blue, Brooking, Washington, Prairie, Van Buren, Sni-a-bar, and Fort Osage, and cities of Kansas City and Independence. Also includes major farms: Walton-Holmes, Minor, F. G. Robinson, Belvedere, W. D. Johnson, Longview, Malvern Land Co., Blackwell, Barzen, J. C. Knopp, Alexander, King, La Cima, Fields, Yost, Velie, Sni-a-bar, Andrew Drumm, Swinney, and McCoy.
Date: 1917
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Missouri, and Wyandott, Kansas
Description: Street map of Kansas City, Missouri, and Wyandott City (now Kansas City), Kansas. Map shows parks, railroad lines, and water treatment facilities. List of office holders for each city, as well as a legend listing points of interest (hotels, banks, theaters, etc.)
Date: 1871
Object Type: Map

Title: Thaxter's Map of the Two Kansas Citys [sic] of Missouri and Kansas
Description: Street map of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. Names of principal streets shown. Also shows parks, cemeteries, schools, railroad, cable car, and electric train lines as well as Quindaro and Argentine, Kansas, and Randolph and Harlem, Missouri.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Sheet
Description: Topographical map of the Kansas City Metropolitan area at the turn of the century, including outlying areas of Platte and Clay counties in Missouri, and Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas. Township boundaries are shown as are street grids for communities including Kansas City, Harlem, Parkville, Platte City, and Weston in Missouri, and Kansas City, Leavenworth, Merriam, and Shawnee in Kansas.
Date: 1894
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Sectional Aeronautical Chart
Description: Aeronautical chart depicting the state of Missouri along the Missouri River between Kansas City and Saint Louis, as well as a section of eastern Kansas. Includes cities, towns, highways, railroads, lookout towers, and oil derricks. Information for pilots includes military fields, airports, beacons, air traffic boundaries, and air tower identification. Handwritten notations from unknown source depict possible flight path and other notes.
Date: 1943
Object Type: Map

Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s Map of the Main Portion of Kansas City
Description: Street map of Kansas City, Missouri, and part of Kansas City, Kansas. Shows public buildings, street names, railroads, elevated railroads, and cable and street car lines. Inset map shows political boundaries of the two Kansas Cities.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Map

Title: Wright's Map of Kansas City
Description: Detailed map of Kansas City, Missouri, that includes roads, railroads, subdivisions and additions, and some property owners. Subdivisions have been colored by an unknown source after the map was printed. A portion of Wyandotte County is also included.
Date: 1884
Object Type: Map

Title: Missouri River, Mouth to Kansas City
Description: Continuation of title, "Revision from Airplane Photographs, July 15, Aug. 21, 1924. In 50 sheets. Sheet No. 50."Map of a stretch of the Missouri River from Quindaro Bend and the Fairfax Drainage District to the East Bottoms Bend. Shows all principal topographic features for a minimum distance of 2000 feet inland, indicating levees, jetties, creeks, and railroad lines. Goose Island, the Kansas River, Kaw Point, Kansas City, Kansas, Harlem, North Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, are in evidence.
Date: 1924
Object Type: Map

Title: Missouri River, Kansas City to Sioux City
Description: Map of a stretch of the Missouri River between the Hannibal Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Quindaro Bend. Shows river soundings and principal topographic features between bluffs, and indicates older river bank lines (1890), levee lines, and railroad lines. Goose Island and the Kansas City Waterworks are in evidence. Printed on the map, "Surveyed Dec. 1922, E. A. B., Jun. Engr. In 47 sheets, Sheet No. 1. Made under the direction of Major C. C. Gee, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A. Submitted by E. C. Constance, Asst. Engr., U.S. Engineer Office, Kansas City, Mo."
Date: 1922/1923
Object Type: Map

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