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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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Sketch Map of the United States Showing the Proposed Old Trails Road
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Description
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Map showing the proposed Old Trails Road that was printed in 1911. The map was drwain by architect John Van Brunt, whose wife is listed as the vice chairman of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the publication containing the map. The map is credited to the Good Roads Committee of the Missouri Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Date
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1911
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Shewey's Map - City St. Louis
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Description
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Map of the city of St. Louis showing streets, parks, ward boundaries, public buildings and institutions, railroad lines and depots, the Mississippi River, and routes for cable cars, electric cars, horse cars, and proposed elevated lines. Includes an inset map of Carondelet.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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1924 Road Map of Jackson County, MO.
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Description
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Map showing different types of roads (macadam, graded, oiled, and earth) as well as railroads, electric lines, section lines, towns, and streams in Jackson County, Missouri.
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Date
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1924
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Object Type
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Map
