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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1808-1908
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the prophecies about Kansas City in the 19th century, featuring those by Senator Thomas Benton in the 1850s and those by Jackson County resident William Gilpin starting in the 1840s, with a copy of his "prophetic map, 1859."
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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My American Journal
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Description of Jay Hudson, "philosophy professor" (presumably at the University of Kansas City) and "colleague" of French novelist Andre Maurois, giving a speech at the Unitarian Church in 1946, "taken not from the Bible but from Plato."
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Description
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Photo and bio of Walter Clarke Root, or Walter Root, "one of the great architects of the country." Born in Atlanta in 1859 and coming to Kansas City in 1886 as an architect and forming the parnership of Root & Siemens in 1896. Designer of the following buildings: "the Scarritt Bible and Training School, the W. J. Smith warehouse, and the Thayer building," etc.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Descriptions of Kansas City by Irving and Benton
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Description
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Description of the visits by Washington Irving (in Independence in 1832) and Senator Thomas Hart Benton (at Kansas City in 1853) and their descriptions of the Kansas City area, the latter's being called a "prophecy."
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City--An Illustrated Review of Its Progress and Importance
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Description
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Portrait and biographical sketch of Jesse Alexander, "elected one of the representatives from Jackson County to the Twenty-fourth General Assembly of Missouri," a resident of Kansas City since 1857, defending the city as a Union officer during the Civil War, with an excerpt of his prophecy for Kansas City in a letter from the late 1850s.
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Date
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1886-05
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Weston's Guide to the Kansas Pacific Railway
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Description
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Origins of the Town of Kansas and Westport in the 1830s and 1840s, explaining their fluctuating rates of growth and the resulting early name of Kansas City being "Westport Landing," including the prophecy by Senator Thomas Hart Benton on the future of the city.
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Date
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1872
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Object Type
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Book
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