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: 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: 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: Stranger's Guide to Kansas City, Missouri
Description: 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."
Date: 1927
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: 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: Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Sepia-toned aerial view from the northeast, showing the Missouri River, Hannibal Bridge, and the city of Kansas City with streets and buildings marked. Points of interest (churches, etc.) numbered; key on back of map. Also on the back is handwritten, "Star, Sept. 30, 1928."
Date: 1869
Object Type: Map

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