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: Missouri Official Highway Map
Description: Road map of Missouri showing the state highway system and the various type of roads within that system, as well as cities and towns according to population, points of interest, state parks, and national forests. The reverse side of the map shows St. Louis and vicinity and Kansas City and vicinity. Also included is the Missouri State Highway Patrol driving code and safety code for children. Mileage between cities for various routes are also listed.
Date: 1938
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Kansas City and Suburban Towns
Description: Black and white cadastral map shows political divisions including Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas; Westport, Missouri; and Wyandotte, Kansas; also shows roads, property owners, railroad lines, and some businesses. Under title: "S. F. Scott & Co. Real Estate and Loan Brokers."
Date: 1881
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: Missouri Laminated Flip Map
Description: Road map of Missouri showing different types of highways and scenic routes, as well as cities and towns according to population, points of interest, state parks and campgrounds. Map also shows portions of Illinois and Kansas bordering Missouri. The reverse side of the map shows insets of Rogers, Arkansas and the following cities in Missouri: St. Louis, Kansas City, Jefferson City, Springfield, Joplin and Branson. Includes a Missouri mileage chart.
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: 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: Official Road Map of Missouri
Description: Road map of Missouri showing different types of roads, points of interest, lakes, colleges, counties and cities. Map includes insets of the Kansas City and St. Louis areas. The reverse side shows route mileage charts.
Date: 1934
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: Highway Map Missouri
Description: Road map of Missouri showing the state highway system and the various type of roads within that system, as well as cities and towns according to population. Map also shows small portions of states bordering Missouri and larger portions of Illinois and Kansas. State parks, county seats and points of interest are also identified. The reverse side of the map shows insets of Kansas City and St. Louis and a road map of the United States including National Parks and Monuments.
Date: 1937
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: 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: 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: City of Kansas, Missouri
Description: Includes streets and denotes stone and asphalt pavements as well as graded streets.
Date: 1889
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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