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Title: The Master Plan for Kansas City
Description: A plan of action developed by the City Plan Commission and published in 1947. Members of the City Plan Commission as well as Master Plan staff are listed. The plan covers a broad range of factors impacting civic life, including: residential development, industrial planning, future land use, schools, and many others. The following color maps documenting current and proposed development are included: Residential Areas, Business & Industry, Major Thoroughfares, Local Transit Lines, Public Schools, Recreational Areas, Public Buildings, Future Land Use & Population Density, Downtown Area, Riverfront Area, and Master Plan.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Report

Title: Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years
Description: Description of the visit of President Woodrow Wilson (later George Creel's supervisor in Washington, D. C. during World War I) to Kansas City for a speech at the author's high school in the early 1900s.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Book

Title: Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years
Description: Chapter of the book about the author's upbringing in Independence and Odessa, Missouri, small town suburbs of Kansas City in the 1890s, "help[ing] to drive home the essential meaning of Americanism" to Creel.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri, Heart of the Nation
Description: Paintings and drawings of Country Club Plaza, Swope Park Zoo, Washington Square, Penn Valley Park, Stock Yards, Twilight on Quality Hill, etc., by local artists.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Book

Title: The Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Description: Report prepared by the City Plan Commission of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1947. The report covers the following subjects: the Kansas City metropolitan district, topography, land use, vacant land, population growth, population distribution, location of new growth, population density, new subdivisions, industrial areas, commercial areas, employment, traffic, proposed highways, transit lines, railroad facilities, schools and recreation, water and sewer services, telephone rate areas, zoning, and Census tracts and enumeration districts. The report contains several informational maps, charts, and graphs.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Report

Title: Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years
Description: Chapter of the book about George Creel's co-founding of the Independent magazine in Kansas City in 1899 with Arthur Grissom, covering various local social topics and favoring the Rabbits Democratic faction (led by Joseph Shannon and supported by Frank Walsh).
Date: 1947
Object Type: Book

Title: Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years
Description: Description of Jim Crow Chiles, or Jim Chiles, "one of Harry Truman's uncles" and a Confederate outlaw in Independence, Missouri following the Civil War. Recounting of his fatal duel with Independence assistant marshal Jim Peacock, hired to put an end to Chiles's terrorism on the town.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Book

Title: Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years
Description: Chapter of the book about the author's hiring at the Kansas City World newspaper as a reporter at the age of 20 in 1896. Recounting of his interviews of former Confederate General Joseph Shelby, "then United States marshal for the district of western Missouri" and his expedition to French-controlled Mexico after the Civil War with Colonel John Edwards and other Kansas Citians.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Book

Title: Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years
Description: Chapter of the book about the influence of Reverend Charles Ferguson, "pastor of a small suburban church in Kansas City's outskirts" in the sale of the author's Independent magazine in 1908 to Clara Kellogg and Katherine Baxter.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Book

Title: Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years
Description: Chapter of the book about the corruption found in Missouri state government records by the author with the help of Kansas City lawyers Frank Walsh and Phil Toll, including an incident leading to the exposing and firing of the city "chief of police."
Date: 1947
Object Type: Book

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