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Title: Missouri State Flower
Description: Information about the Missouri State Flower, the downy hawthorn.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: United States Bicentennial
Description: Information about the celebration of the United States Bicentennial, including a program for an ethnic ball in Kansas City.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Johnson's United States
Description: Map of the United States, Lower California, northern Mexico, Cuba, and the Bahama Islands. State and territorial boundaries, railroad lines, rivers, and towns are indicated for the U.S., as well as forts, explorers' routes, pioneer trails, and Indian tribe locations for western U.S. Numeral 20 found in upper left corner; numeral 21 found in upper right corner.
Date: 1862
Object Type: Map

Title: The United States Illustrated
Description: Photo of a steel engraving by J. M. Peck of Kansas City in the mid-1800s.
Date: 1852
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri River: Kansas City to Mouth
Description: Map of a stretch of the Missouri River between the Quindaro Bend and the town of Sugar Creek. Shows principal topographic features for some distance inland, indicating railroad lines, dikes, creeks (Line Creek, Rock Creek, Jersey Creek, Sugar Creek), industrial districts (with companies named), truck gardens, and timber stands. Kansas City, Kansas is shown, as well as Kansas City, Missouri, and the Missouri towns of North Kansas City, Avondale, Randolph, Minaville, and Birmingham. A stretch of the Big Blue River is included, as well.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Map

Title: The First in United States
Description: Article about the pioneering of the postal delivery service of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad.
Date: 1909-02-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: United States Department of Agriculture
Description: File containing reprints of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by the Kansas City Star about the history of inefficiency of the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture).
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Flower, Lawn & Garden Show
Description: File contains a program or booklet on the 1995 Kansas City Flower, Lawn & Garden Show presented by the Kansas City Parks & Recreation Department.
Date: 1905-06-17
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biographical sketch of Isidor Bush, a Jewish emigrant to Saint Louis from Austria-Hungary in 1849 by way of New York. Description of his prominent role in the economy of early Saint Louis, starting with grocery stores, moving on to general stores, the "People's Savings Bank" in 1847, the city council, state cabinet specializing in finance, and finally "his present great wine business" under Isidor Bush & Company and Bush & Son & Meissner, including "'Bushberg,' the largest grape nursery in the United States, and one of the best vineyards in Missouri."
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery
Description: Missouri volume of the book series containing portraits and biographical sketches of many prominent Kansas Citians.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: United States Courthouse and Post Office
Description: Full frontal and side view of the U.S. courthouse building also housing a branch post office at 811 Grand Avenue. This building replaced the former Federal Building and General Post Office at this location in 1939. Looking northeast.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: United States Courthouse and Post Office
Description: Close-up view of entrance to the U.S. Courthouse at 811 Grand Avenue. This building replaced the former Federal Building at this location.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: United States Courthouse and Post Office
Description: Interior view of the lobby of the United States Courthouse with people coming down the steps and two military (Navy) personnel standing beside two American flags at the bottom of the steps. The building, located at 811 Grand, opened in 1939 and replaced the former Federal Building and General Post Office that occupied this site.
Date: 1939-10-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Cleartype Outline Map of the United States
Description: Map of the United States showing railroads and rivers that originated in Kansas City. Depicted are railroads constructed to 1864 and projected railroads to 1864.
Object Type: Map

Title: United States Courthouse and Post Office
Description: Full frontal and side view of building at 811 Grand Avenue, looking northeast. Shows Victoria Hotel to the east.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: United States Courthouse and Post Office
Description: Full frontal and side view of building at 811 Grand Avenue, looking northeast. Shows Victoria Hotel.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: United States Courthouse and Post Office
Description: Full frontal and side view of the U.S. Courthouse building also housing a branch post office at 811 Grand Avenue. This building replaced the former Federal Building and General Post Office at this location in 1939.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Object Type: Photograph

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