Maps

Title: Metropolitan Kansas City
Description: Blue-line map of the metropolitan Kansas City area, specifically Cass, Jackson, Clay, and Platte Counties in Missouri, and Wyandotte, Johnson, and a portion of Leavenworth Counties in Kansas. Map depicts area municipalities and major highways, including the proposals for Interstate 635, Interstate 470, and the southeast corner of Interstate 435.
Date: 1966
Object Type: Map

Title: Old Oregon Trail
Description: Map includes historical sketches and information about the Oregon Trail.
Date: 1959
Object Type: Map

Title: Fabulous Johnson County, Kansas
Description: Plat map of Johnson County, Kansas, with property owner names and includes roads, railroads, townships, schools, churches, cemeteries, etc.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Map

Title: Clay County, Missouri
Description: Map of Clay County, Missouri including parks, highways, schools, hospitals, railroads, etc.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Congressional Districts
Description: Outline map showing the boundaries of Missouri Congressional Districts 4 and 5.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Map

Title: Official Highway Map of Clay County, Missouri
Description: Highly detailed map showing various classes of roads and railroads, levees, bridges, schools, dwellings (in rural areas), mines and quarries, etc. in Clay County, Missouri.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Map

Title: Urban Renewal: Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Street map of downtown Kansas City, Missouri and vicinity showing urban renewal projects, redevelopment projects, existing & planned public housing, and freeway rights of way. Key incomplete; does not indicate meaning of colored blocks on map.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Map

Title: Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company
Description: Plot plan showing layout of the Schlitz Brewing Company facility, located between 3rd and 5th, Grand and Locust streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of the Vicinity of Kansas City in Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Map showing major streets and railroad lines in area bounded by the Missouri and Kansas Rivers, Westport, and Independence. Includes townships. Red ink markings added at an unknown date. In red on the top: "Compliments of J. M. Ford & Co., Brokers, Real Estate & Loans, Office 624 Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, MO."
Date: 1885
Object Type: Map

Title: Clay County Missouri
Description: Detailed map of Clay County, Missouri depicts county and city boundaries, interstates, state, and county highways, as well as many primary and secondary surface streets within particular localities. Also noted are parks, schools, hospitals, and townships. Of particular note is an illustration of the proposed site of the Smithville Reservoir in northern Clay County, which in 1979 became Smithville Lake.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of the Santa Fe Trail Through Colorado Relocated and Monumented
Description: Map of the Santa Fe Trail through Colorado, indicating monuments. Shows area between Pueblo and Trinidad, and east to Kansas state line. Trail is marked in red.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Description: Map of Kansas City area including Jackson, Cass, Clay, parts of Ray, Clinton, and Platte Counties in Missouri. Includes several counties on the Kansas side.
Object Type: Map

Title: Bates CO. Missouri
Description: Map of Bates County, Missouri, that includes paved roads, graveled roads, state or county roads not highly improved, roads, interstates and highways, railroads, drainage district line, municipal township lines, streams, and schools. Includes the townships of West Boone, East Boone, Deer Creek, Grand River, Mingo, West Point, Elkhart, Mound, Shawnee, Spruce, Homer, Charlotte, Mount Pleasant, Summit, Deepwater, Walnut, New Home, Lone Oak, Pleasant Gap, Hudson, Howard, Osage, Prairie, and Rockville.
Object Type: Map

Title: Diagonal Thorofare [sic] Connection, Indiana to Cleveland
Description: Map of proposed connection. Map is bounded by Cleveland and Indiana, 41st and 45th. Bottom half of sheet is graph of unknown purpose.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Diagonal Thorofare [sic] Connection, Indiana to Cleveland
Description: Cadastral map of a proposed connection between Indiana and Cleveland Avenues in Kansas City, Missouri. Map is bounded by Cleveland and Indiana, from 41st and 45th. Shows some property owners.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Map

Title: America's Cattle Trails
Description: Map of trails including those used by the Spanish, pre-Civil War trails, Civil War routes, and other overland trails.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Street map of Kansas City showing parks, cemeteries, park district boundaries, and street car lines.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Map

Title: McGee's Addition to the City of Kansas
Description: Copy of the original 1857 plat of McGee's Addition. Shows an area from 8th Street north to 2nd, and from Holmes Street west to Eleanor Street.
Date: 1857
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Missouri - Blair's Emancipation Map
Description: Map with text and tables containing data on slavery in Missouri. Data taken from the Missouri state census of 1856 gives the percentage of slaves in the population of each county. The material was gathered by the Hon. Frank P. Blair for the New York Independent "in aid of the abolition agitation" and reprinted in the St. Louis Republican.
Date: 1857~
Object Type: Map

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