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Title
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Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1878
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Housing Survey - Kansas City, Missouri - Negro Districts Map
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Description
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Map prepared by the Missouri Era Non-Manual Works Program, the City Plan Commission, and the Jackson County Emergency Relief Committee showing African American population centers in Kansas City in 1934. The map was included as part of the 1934-1935 Report of the Housing Survey of Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Map
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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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Kansas City's Expressways
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Description
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Illustrated map showing the planned expressway system in the Kansas City area in 1952. Text printed on the map explains how the freeway system will work and how it will benefit the public. The map displays a plan to route the expressways close to the downtown area of Kansas City, Kansas, that was later changed.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Bird's Eye View - Kansas City
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Description
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Pictorial map showing the cities and towns of Kansas City, Missouri; Harlem, Missouri; Westport, Missouri; Rosedale, Kansas; Argentine, Kansas; Armourdale, Kansas; Armstrong, Kansas; Riverview, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; and Wyandotte, Kansas. At the time of its publication, the map had an extensive key listing the numbered buildings, most of which has been removed. Steamboats traveling along the Missouri River can be seen. The map displays the steep bluffs and topography of the region. It also indicates Kansas City's expansion southward away from the Missouri River, the development of the stockyards industry in the West Bottoms and interconnectivity with the surrounding cities and towns that followed completion of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Historic Old Westport
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Description
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Map showing historic Westport, Missouri. Includes current and original street names, location of homes and businesses (including original and modern site, if relocated).
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri School Districts
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Description
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Map showing the boundary lines for Kansas City, Missouri schools. Roads, parks, streetcar, and rail lines are depicted, and schools are differentiated between "white schools" and "colored schools."
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Date
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1956
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Zoning Map of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Zoning map of Kansas City with shading indicating zoning districts. Key on map. "Red areas indicate the location of zoning changes during the period June 1952 to January 1956."
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Date
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1956
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Section of Downtown Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Reproduction of map showing a section of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Map depicts the City Market area between Delaware, Charlotte, Independence Avenue, and 3rd Street. Lot numbers are included, and some properties include handwritten notes of owners' or occupants' names.
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Date
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1931
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Pocket Map of Greater Kansas City
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Description
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Road map of Kansas City and surrounding counties including Platte and Clay counties in Missouri, Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas. Includes indexes to streets, public schools, and parochial schools.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Greater Kansas City
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Description
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Road map of Kansas City and surrounding counties including Platte and Clay counties in Missouri, Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas.
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Date
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1957
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Construction Phases Map
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Description
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Map of the Kansas City area showing planned stages of consruction of the expressway system. The map was part of the City Plan Commission's publication Expressways - Greater Kansas City in 1951.
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Date
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1951
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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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Metropolitan Kansas City
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Description
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Street map of metropolitan Kansas City, with inset maps of Olathe, Kansas and Lee's Summit, Missouri. Features colored areas showing light and heavy industry, with many named industrial districts, city and school district boundaries, "switching limits."
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Date
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1960
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Object Type
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Map
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