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Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse
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Front entrance view of the Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse located on 9th Street between Locust and Oak in downtown Kansas City. View is looking toward the north. The courthouse services the Western District of Missouri.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse
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Full, street-level view of the Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse located on 9th Street between Locust and Oak in downtown Kansas City. View is looking toward the north, showing the front of the building. The courthouse services the federal court for the Western District of Missouri.
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse
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Exterior, close up view of the main extrance to the Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse located on 9th Street between Locust and Oak in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View is looking toward the north.
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Kansas City Biography: Charles E. Whittaker
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Article about the life of Kansas City lawyer and later United States Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Whittaker and the 1998 new federal courthouse named for him at 9th and Locust Streets, with photos.
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Broadway Boulevard
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Street level view looking north on Broadway at 39th Street intersection. Buildings in immediate view to be removed for new drugstore construction. Tobler Flowers sign in view on building.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Broadway Boulevard at 39th Street
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Street level view of the east side of Broadway at the 39th Street intersection. View is looking toward the northeast. Toblers Flowers shop is in view with a business named L. A. Graham Plumbing Supplies next door. Buildings to be torn down for the construction of a Walgreen's Drugstore.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Weston United Methodist Renovating Historic Church
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Description
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Weston Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was dedicated in 1868. Friends of Sacred Structurees Technical Assistance Team is assisting the Church in the first major renovation of its historic structure.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Newsletter Article
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Title
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More Odd & Peculiar--Unusual Town Names in All Fifty States
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Two pages about the origin and history of the names of Jefferson City and its three capitol buildings, the state of Missouri and its "Show Me State" slogan, and small towns and ghost towns in Missouri, including Mapaville, Medoc, Devil's Elbow, Frankenstein, and Success.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of Albert L. Reeves (1873-1971), "one of the two judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri," involved in the Greenlease kidnaping case and the election fraud case of the Pendergast machine in the 1930s.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Kansas City International Airport
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Description
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Photo and history of Kansas City International Airport, established in 1972 as "the third largest in area in the United States (only JFK in New York and San Francisco International are larger)," served by a high of 26 carriers in 1983, with description of its origins starting in 1952.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Downtown Skyline
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Description
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View looking southwest from 10th and Locust. UMB (United Missouri Bank) Technology Center on Oak Street in foreground.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Short biography of David Rice Atchison, or David Atchison (1807-1886), a senator from Missouri who may have been President of the United States for a day on March 4, 1849.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Hotel Schuyler
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Description
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View looking toward the northwest showing the south side of the Hotel Schuyler located between 10th and 11th Streets on the east side of Locust (1017 Locust) in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The hotel was torn down in November 1999 as part of the Civic Mall/Ilus W. Davis Park redevelopment area. The two-story UMB Technology Center building located on Oak Street is visible to the west of the hotel.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Petticoat Lane
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Description
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Street level view looking toward the east down 11th Street or Petticoat Lane in downtown Kansas City. View is taken at Walnut Street and provides a partial side view of the UMB bank on the left.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City, Kansas Church Recovers from Floods/Flight
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Central United Methodist Church at 933 Argentine, in the Armourdale area, has survived several floods since it opened its second building in 1924. Flood damage from 1951 and suburban flight almost caused it to close its doors in the 1990s, however. In 1994 former and current members joined together to restore the church which now provides a variety of services to the community.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Newsletter Article
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The Whitley Sisters Remember: Living with Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri
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Article about the Whitley sisters, a representative group of black women experiencing racial segregation in Kansas City during the "Great Migration" of blacks to northern industrial cities in the 1920s and 1930s, also with much information about the sisters' East Side neighborhood.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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