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Title: Saint Teresa's Academy High School Yearbook - Teresian
Description: Yearbook for the 1968 class of St. Teresa's Academy High School.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Keeping Pace with Progressive St. Joseph
Description: A promotional poster that includes a black and white aerial photograph of the Saint Joseph, Missouri area. The photo was taken at an altitude of 12,000 feet, resulting in a scale in which one inch equals one mile. Information about First Federal Savings and Loan Association accompanies the image.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Map

Title: Russell Baker Residence
Description: Residence of Russell Baker, located at 1020 W. 57th St. Terrace. Architects Monroe and Lefebvre received an award for remodeling, landscaping and painting the home.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lincoln High School
Description: View of Lincoln High School addition, located at 2111 Woodland Avenue. Architects Hewitt & Royer received an award for design of an addition compatible with an existing building.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Helm Residence
Description: Full frontal view of the Helm Residence, located at 6029 Wornall Road. Mary Helm received a design award for painting and landscaping the home.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Linden Hill Townhouses
Description: View of townhouses in the Linden Hill residential district, located at 96th Street and Lydia Avenue. Linscott, Haylett & Associates received an award for excellence in their design of these buildings.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Garfield Rehabilitation Area
Description: View of one side of Garfield Avenue, north of Independence Avenue. Individual homeowners and the Redevelopment Authority of Kansas City, Missouri received awards for refurbishing and landscaping these homes.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Minute Circle Friendly House
Description: Partial view of the Minute Circle Friendly House, located at 2405 Elmwood Avenue. Architects Monroe & Lefebvre received an award for attractive utilitarian design for their work on this neighborhood center.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westmoreland Building
Description: View of the Westmoreland Building, located in the Waldo area on Wornall Road between 74th and 75th streets. Architects Folger & Pearson received an award for remodeling this store front.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Missouri Division of Employment Security
Description: Partial frontal view of the Missouri Division of Employment Security, located at 1411 Main Street. Architects Shaughnessy, Bower & Grimaldi received an award for creative use of structural forms for their work on this building.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gateway Sporting Goods Company
Description: Full frontal view of the Gateway Sporting Goods Company, located at 1009 Main Street. Architects Seligson & Eggen received an award for remodeling the entrance and facade of this property.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mobil Oil Station
Description: Mobil Oil Service Station, located at the intersection of Troost Avenue and Armour Boulevard. Architect Eliot Noyes received an award for simplicity in commercial architecture and site use for its design.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Monroe and Lefebvre Office Building
Description: Frontal view of the offices of Monroe and Lefebvre Architects, Inc., located at 1021 Pennsylvania Avenue. Monroe and Lefebvre received an award for their creative reconstruction and preservation of the building.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Description: Chapter of the book about Sylvestre Pratte (1799-1827), a fur trapper starting by 1820 (especially on the Santa Fe Trail) and a native of Saint Louis as a son of fellow fur trader Bernard Pratte.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Book

Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Description: Chapter of the book about Pierre Lesperance (1791-1879), a French Canadian fur trapper moving to Saint Louis about 1811 as a riverboat worker and then moving to New Mexico in 1822, "becoming a Mexican citizen in 1830."
Date: 1968
Object Type: Book

Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Description: Chapter of the book about Andrew Henry (~1775-1832), a fur trapper born in Pennsylvania "between the years 1773 to 1778," and moving to Washington County in Missouri Territory in 1804. He started out as a miner and then fur trader with Manuel Lisa in Saint Louis, leading the Saint Louis Fur Company's first western expedition in 1809 and after service in the War of 1812 becoming involved in expeditions of William Ashley.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Book

Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Description: Chapter of the book about Maurice LeDuc, Jr. (~1808-1880), "in his way, the last of the Mountain Men," a entering Taos, New Mexico by about 1825. Description of Maurice Jr.'s father, a fellow trapper in Saint Louis in 1812 with Manuel Lisa and dying about 1838.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Book

Title: Joseph Davenport
Description: Photo and bio of Joseph Davenport (1849-1921), mayor of Kansas City in 1889, also a lawyer and realtor, moving to Kansas City from his native Saint Louis in about 1873, joining "the pork-packing business with J. E. McKenzie," and after his term as mayor entering real estate.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Book

Title: George Edwards
Description: Photo and bio of George Edwards (1860-1941), mayor of Kansas City from 1916 to 1917, born in Saint Louis and arriving in Kansas City in 1889 first residing at 609 Brooklyn Avenue as a jeweler and at 3533 Harrison Boulevard during his mayorship.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Book

Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Description: Chapter of the book about Hugh Glass, a fur trapper and supposedly a former pirate with Jean Laffite, captured and escaping from Indians in 1822 to Saint Louis, and joining the expedition to the Rocky Mountains with General William Ashley. Left for dead after being mauled by a grizzly bear in Nebraska Territory there in 1823 and killed by Indians about 1833 on the Yellowstone River, among other dangerous adventures.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Book

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