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Southeast High School
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File containing miscellaneous newspaper clippings and a September 19, 1960 dedication program.
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Libraries--Missouri--Southeast Missouri State
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Photos and information on the Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College (later Southeast Missouri State University), built in 1939 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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Southeast Branch, Kansas City Public Library
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Photos and information on the Southeast Branch Library of the Kansas City Public Library system opened in 1938 in the Southeast High School building at 3416-3432 East Meyer Boulevard with murals painted by Wilbur Phillips, etc.
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Fort Leonard Wood
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Photos, illustrations, and information on Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, "150 miles southeast of Kansas City," established in 1941 and named for General Leonard Wood (1860-1927), "Chief of Staff of the United States Army" from 1910 to 1914.
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Branches of the Kansas City Public Library
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Photos, illustrations, and information on the various branch libraries of the Kansas City Public Library system (and their murals, etc.), including the Westport Branch Library, the East Branch Library (at 5220 East 20th Street in 1970), the Bluford Branch Library, the Southeast Branch Library, and the Van Horn Branch Library (extant in 1978), etc.
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Observation Park
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Photos, illustrated map, and information on Observation Park at the southeast corner of 20th and Holly Streets, built about 1905 with additions into the 1910s from plans by landscape architect George Kessler as part of the park and boulevard system.
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World's Fair of 1904
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File includes a newspaper clipping concerning 34 sculptures from the 1904 World's Fair in Saint Louis, also called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. These items are now located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at Southeast Missouri State University. They are plaster replicas of classical works created by August Gerber of Germany. The pieces were bought by Louis Houck for $1,888 in October, 1904.
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Woodland Park Residential District
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File contains a pamphlet with photos, illustration, map, and information on the Woodland Park residential district "located in the beautiful Blue Ridge district, only a twenty-minute drive from the down-town business secion over paved roads," southeast of the city.
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Federal Buildings In Kansas City
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Photos, illustrations, and information on the old federal buildings of Kansas City, doubling as post offices. First post office at 7th and Main Streets in the early 1880s, replaced in the mid-1880s in function with the Post Office and Customs House at the southeast corner of 9th and Walnut streets (also called the Federal Building and razed about 1932 for physical replacement by the Fidelity Building). Another federal building erected in 1900 with a dome on the east side of Grand Avenue between 8th and 9th streets, including a post office and demolished in 1938.
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Libraries--Special--Jackson County Law Library
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Map (of the interior of the building at 1125 Grand Avenue) and information on the history of the Jackson County Law Library, formed with the establishment in 1871 of the Kansas City Law Library Association and housed "in the Court House at 2nd and Main" Streets. Moved after a damaging tornado about 1888 "to the old Nelson Building on the southeast corner of Main Street and Missouri Avenue" and then in 1907 "to the top floor of the Scarritt Building" until the building's sale in 1949. Moved then "to the 8th floor of the Court House in Kansas City" and having an annex established in the mid-1960s "in the Independence Courthouse Annex building" before being "moved back to the Scarritt Building" in 1987 and then in 1990 to "the Merchants Trust Center on the corner of 12th and Grand" Avenues.
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