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Title
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Kansas City Metropolitan Area
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Description
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Plat map of the greater Kansas City area, including north Independence and southern Clay County.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Stranger's Guide to Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Ottawa County
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Description
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Topographical map of Ottawa County, Oklahoma, including segments of the Spring River and Five Mile Creek. Map also depicts roads, highways, schools, and railroads.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Ottawa County Topography
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Description
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Topographical map of Ottawa County, Oklahoma, depicting the area of Township 29 North, Range 22 East, Sections 13, 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35, and 36. Map shows roads, buildings, railroads, altitude, streams, lakes, and mills. Elm Creek, White Bird School, and Buffalo School are also represented.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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William Gillis Farm, 600 Acres, 1846
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Description
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Pictorial map showing the 1846 boundaries of the farm of William Gillis, an early settler and business leader in Kansas City. The farm totalled 600 acres, and the map shows the location of the Gillis farmhouse. Twentieth-century streets, parks, bridges, and neighborhoods are superimposed over the image of the farm.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Map of Greater Kansas City and Suburbs
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Description
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Street map of the greater Kansas City area, including Kansas City, Kansas, Independence, North Kansas City, and large parts of Johnson County, Kansas.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Clay County, Missouri
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Description
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Photocopy of map found in Hixson's "Plat Book of Clay County, Missouri" (MVSC Q 912.778 C62H). Shows townships, towns, railroad lines, schools, and churches.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Shell Knob Quadrangle
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Description
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Topographical map of areas of Barry and Stone counties in Missouri, including segments of the White River. Map also depicts schools, roads, and assorted river crossings and geological features.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Dearborn Quadrangle
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Description
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Topographical map of an area of southwest Buchanan County, Missouri and northwest Platte County, Missouri. Map features south portion of St. Joseph, Missouri and town of Dearborn, Missouri, as well as roads, railroads, lakes, and Missouri River. Several schools and churches are labeled, including Spring Garden School, Pleasant Ridge School, Sparta Church, and Bethel School.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Jackson County, Missouri
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Description
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Land ownership map of Jackson County, Missouri, showing roads (hard surfaced, oiled dirt, and graded), state highways, U.S. interstates, railroads (steam and electric), municipal township lines, schools, churches, streams, oil wells, gas wells, and dry holes. Includes the townships of Blue, Fort Osage, Sni A Bar, Brooking, and Washington.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Map