Maps

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: Wright's Map of Kansas City
Description: Detailed map of Kansas City, Missouri, that includes roads, railroads, subdivisions and additions, and some property owners. Subdivisions have been colored by an unknown source after the map was printed. A portion of Wyandotte County is also included.
Date: 1884
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

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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