Maps

Title: Kansas City, Kansas
Description: Street map of Kansas City, Kansas, with indexes to streets, public and semi-public buildings, public schools and parochial schools. Large areas in color indicate industrial districts.
Date: 1941
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: Kansas City's Expressways
Description: 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.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Map

Title: Bird's Eye View - Kansas City
Description: 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.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Map

Title: The Star's Coverage of Kansas City's Drive-In Territory
Description: Map showing communities within a 100 mile radius of Kansas City and the number of subscribers to the Kansas City Star in each. Includes legend of towns and number of subscribers. Reverse shows map of region with number of subscribers in each area (Kansas City, MO, area; Kansas City, KS, area; North Kansas City area; and Independence area). Figures are current as of March 29, 1948.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Kansas and Suburban Area
Description: Map of Kansas City, Kansas, including an index of streets and legend indicating schools, parks, and roads.
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Greater Kansas City and Suburbs
Description: Street map of Kansas City area, including Rosedale and Kansas City, Kansas; North Kansas City, Independence, and Mount Washington in Missouri. Shows classes of roads, railroad lines, and streetcar lines as well as clubs and cemeteries. Includes index to streets and streetcar lines.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Map

Title: 1914 Map of Greater Kansas City
Description: Street map of Kansas City metropolitan area featuring successive circular lines in one mile intervals out from New Union Station. Rosedale, North Kansas City, Independence, and Kansas City, Kansas, are shown, with indexes to streets and street car lines.
Date: 1914
Object Type: Map

Title: Fairfax Industrial District and Environs
Description: Map of the Fairfax Industrial District and part of neighboring Kansas City, Kansas. The locations of various industrial concerns are shown, along with Fairfax Municipal Airport.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Map

Title: Rascher's Map of Kansas City, Kansas
Description: Atlas of Kansas City, Kansas, also showing areas of Bonner Springs, Calorific, New Philadelphia, Vance, Quindara Township, Argentine, Rosedale, and Shawnee Township.
Date: 1889/1891
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Greater Kansas City and Suburbs
Description: Street map of the greater Kansas City area, including Kansas City, Kansas, Independence, North Kansas City, and large parts of Johnson County, Kansas.
Date: 1927
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas; and Independence, Missouri
Description: Two-sided map of the Kansas City metropolitan area with portions dedicated to Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas; and Independence, Missouri. The area's streetcar lines are highlighted in red.
Date: 1920~
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: Thaxter's Map of the Two Kansas Citys [sic] of Missouri and Kansas
Description: Street map of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. Names of principal streets shown. Also shows parks, cemeteries, schools, railroad, cable car, and electric train lines as well as Quindaro and Argentine, Kansas, and Randolph and Harlem, Missouri.
Date: 1890
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: Quindaro Quadrangle
Description: Topographical map of northeast Wyandotte County, Kansas. Features Kansas City, Kansas and the Missouri River, including roads, creeks, and city facilities. Several schools are labeled, including Quindaro School, Southwest Junior High School, Hawthorne School, and Western University.
Date: 1943
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Kansas: Formerly Wyandotte - Kansas City, Kan., and Armourdale
Description: Color copy of map of Kansas City, Kansas, showing the original areas of Wyandotte and Armourdale. Map includes additions, streets, businesses, schools, parks, cemeteries, railroads, the Kansas City Stockyards, and the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. Text on the map states
Date: 1886
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Kansas: Formerly Wyandotte - Kansas City, Kan., and Armourdale
Description: Map of Kansas City, Kansas, showing the original areas of Wyandotte and Armourdale. Map includes additions, streets, businesses, schools, parks, cemeteries, railroads, the Kansas City Stockyards, and the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. Text on the map states it was approved by City Engineer and County Surveyor J. H. Lasley on October 15, 1886.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Map

Title: Missouri River Hydrographic Survey: Kaw Bend
Description: Map of the Kaw Bend of the Missouri River, curving around Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas. Soundings across the width of the river are listed at every tenth of a mile. Topographic features such as dikes, revetments, railroad lines are indicated, as well as major industrial sites along the river.
Date: 1971
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City: Mobil Travel Map
Description: Street map of Kansas City and surrounding area including Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas, North Kansas City, Independence, and Raytown; enlarged map of downtown inset. Indexes suburbs, points of interest, colleges, hospitals, transportation terminals, golf courses, parks, and streets. Includes two suggested tours of Kansas sites.
Date: 1967
Object Type: Map

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