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Title: East High School Yearbook - The Eastonian
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of East High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Loretto Academy High School Yearbook - The Lauretanum
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of Loretto Academy High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Central High School Yearbook - The Centralian
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of Central High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Crossroads of America: The Story of Kansas City
Description: Chapter of the book about Thomas Hart Benton, "a grandnephew of the Senator" by the same name, describing the artist's life starting with childhood in Neosho, Missouri.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Book

Title: Arthur Stilwell
Description: Information about Kansas City railroad magnate Arthur Stilwell (1859-1928) including the story of his "railroad-building project" starting in 1900 to "bring the Pacific Ocean 400 miles closer to Kansas City," in a failed attempt to cross the mountains in Mexico with railroad. Native of New York coming to Kansas City in 1888 as a real estate developer and railroad builder, constructing the Kansas City Suburban Belt railway, Fairmont Park, "Grand Central Station at the foot of Wyandotte Street," the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad (later the Kansas City Southern Railway), and Janssen Place.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Book

Title: Paseo High School Yearbook - Paseon
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of Paseo High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Northeast High School Yearbook - The Noreaster
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of Northeast High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Crossroads of America: The Story of Kansas City
Description: Suggestions in 1838 for names of the town of Kansas, including the name "Possum Trot" and a description of early settler One-Eyed Ellis.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Book

Title: Crossroads of America: The Story of Kansas City
Description: Chapter of the book about the cause for Order Number 11, the raid on Lawrence by Quantrill, and the effects of the order, made by Union General Ewing, with detailed descriptions of the vicious fighting of the Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Book

Title: Lincoln High School Yearbook - The Lincolnian
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of Lincoln High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Crossroads of America: The Story of Kansas City
Description: Chapters of the book about Kansas City journalists including William Rockhill Nelson (1841-1915), founder of the Kansas City Star and a native of Indiana coming here in 1880. Description of his life and career as one of the most prominent citizens in Kansas City history, influencing local politics and development of streets and neighborhoods, etc.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Book

Title: Southeast High School Yearbook - The Crusader
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of Southeast High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Colonel Thomas Swope
Description: Chapters of the book about Colonel Thomas Swope (1827-1909), a prominent real estate owner in early Kansas City presumably poisoned to death by his physician, Dr. B. Clark Hyde. Description of his life, death, and murder trial.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Book

Title: Bishop Lillis High School Yearbook - Lillislog
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of Bishop Lillis High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Crossroads of America: The Story of Kansas City
Description: Three chapters of the book with information about Kansas City related to Jesse James and his gang after the Civil War, including the attorneys at his 1882 trial acquittal (James Reed and Frank Walsh, both later known nationally), Missouri Governor Thomas Crittenden (elected for his promise to capture Jesse and later pardoning Frank), Jesse James, Jr., Frank James, Major John Edwards, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, etc., with a photo of Jesse as a guerrilla at the age of 16 in the Civil War.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Book

Title: Manual High School Yearbook - The Builder
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of Manual High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: South Kansas City
Description: Page of the booklet describing housing, population, schools, and recreation for the area between 77th, southern city limits, western city limits, and the Public Service Company right-of-way, with a map on the inside cover.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Southwest High School Yearbook - The Sachem
Description: Yearbook for the 1948 class of Southwest High School.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: 3 & 2 League, Joe Nolan's Tigers Baseball Team
Description: Group portrait of Joe Nolan's Tigers, little league baseball team, at unidentified location. Identified as 3-2 League, Midget B South.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Children Playing
Description: Interior view of children playing an organized game in a recreation room.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Photograph

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