Maps

Title: Map of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Detailed street map of Kansas City, Missouri, that includes wards, railroads, and rivers. Shows businesses, cemeteries, parks, subdivisions, and some property owners.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Map

Title: A New Map of New Hampshire
Description: Engraved map of New Hampshire indicating counties, towns, rivers, streams, and mountains. Published by Bradford and Read in Boston, 1813.
Date: 1791
Object Type: Map

Title: Gunn's New Map of Kansas and the Gold Mines
Description: Map of Kansas and the area to become Colorado, showing the existing counties of Kansas and Indian reservations. Includes inset "Routes from the Missouri River to the Kansas Gold Mines." Compiled from the original field notes by O. B. Gunn.
Date: 1859
Object Type: Map

Title: Western Missouri Land-O-Lakes Association
Description: Map covers areas from southern Kansas City east to Boonville, to the western corner of Barton County east to Springfield. Map depicts completed lakes in this area and lakes approved or under construction. Map also shows wildlife areas, cities, counties and roads. The reverse side includes descriptions about the Kaysinger Bluff, Pomme De Terre and Stockton Dams, as well as listings of points of interests in each of those areas.
Date: 1961/1966
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas Annual Register's New Map of Kansas and the Gold Mines
Description: Map of Kansas and the area to become Colorado, showing the existing countries of Kansas and Indian reservations. Includes inset "Routes from the Missouri River to the Kansas Gold Mines." Compiled from the original field notes by O. B. Gunn.
Date: 1864-01-01
Object Type: Map

Title: Architect's Drawing of Lake Tapawingo, (Beautiful Place) and Surroundings
Description: Architect's drawing of projected Lake Tapawingo, "Beautiful Place," and surroundings. One side of map is a bird's eye view of the area around the lake showing planned features such as club house and bathing beaches. The other side shows platting of lots. The development was "To be built and owned by the Lake Tapawingo Development Company, Inc., 513-515 Pioneer Trust Building, Kansas City, Missouri." Handwritten on top in pencil, "Lake Tapawingo, Mo. 1928." Date otherwise not noted.
Date: 1928~
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of the County of Clayton, Iowa
Description: Map of Clayton County, Iowa, that includes flour mills, smelting furnaces, saw mills, steam ferry boats, post offices, and villages. An abstract from the 1856 Clayton County census is included at the bottom of the map. Included are townships Grand Meadow, Monona, Giard, Morasser, Wagner, Farmersburg, Highland, Boardman, Read, Sperry, Cox Creek, Volga, Jefferson, Cass, Lodomillo, Elk, Mallory, Millville, Buena Vista, Mendon, Clayton, and Carnavillo. Written on the inside cover of the map booklet: "from Barter, Maxwell Co. Plainfield, N.J. Oct. 10, 1931-$12.50."
Date: 1857
Object Type: Map

Title: Geographically Correct Map, showing Chicago, Alton & St. Louis and Chicago, Kansas City and Denver Short Lines and Connections...
Description: Map showing the service area for the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis and the Chicago, Kansas City & Denver railroads. The area includes the East Coast of the United States west to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, from Canada south to the Gulf of Mexico. Rail lines and major cities are marked, and the map includes insets for the vicinities of Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia. Timetables and railroad advertisements are included on the reverse side.
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Swope Park, Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Illustrated map of Swope Park showing various activities and facilities.
Date: 1941

Title: Evacuation Map of Greater Kansas City
Description: Map prepared to communicate evacuation and emergency responder routes to be used in the event of a nuclear attack upon the Kansas City area. A series of concentric circles indicating differing levels of destruction are shown. Instructions describing how the routes should be used as well as the varying levels of expected devastation are provided. The devastation circles originate at 16th and McGee streets, which was where the headquarters of the 205th Medical Battalion of the Missouri National Guard was located.
Date: 1954-11
Object Type: Map

Title: Buchanan County, Missouri
Description: Land ownership map of Buchanan County, Missouri, showing highways, paved and graveled roads, civil and political TWP lines, railroads, schools, churches, cemeteries, and streams. Includes the townships of Washington, Marion, Wayne, Center, Agency, Tremont, Rush, Bloomington, Crawford, Jackson, and Platte.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Map

Title: Platte County, Missouri
Description: Land ownership map of Platte County, Missouri, showing U.S. highways, state highways, roads (paved, gravel, and graded), railroads, political township boundaries, civil township lines, schools, churches, cemeteries, rivers, and streams. Includes the townships of Marshall, Green, Preston, Weston, Fair, Lee, Carroll, Waldron, May, and Pettis.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Map

Title: The Berry Company's Map of Kansas City, Kansas
Description: Land ownership map of the city of Kansas City, Kansas, showing steam and electric railways, parks, schools, cemeteries, businesses, and municipal buildings and landmarks.
Date: 1910~
Object Type: Map

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