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Title
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Water Works Building
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Description
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Front and partial side view of Water Works Building located at 6th and Grand. Horse drawn carriages in front.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Hughes Convention Hall Views
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Description
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Pictorial and descriptive story of the original and reconstructed Convention Halls.
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Date
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1900
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City Water Department Building
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Description
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Partial frontal view identified as old Water Department Building located at southeast corner of 2nd and Main.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Recreation Building
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Description
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Print of a "Recreation Building, Municipal Services Group, Kansas City, Missouri," exact address unknown. Credited to "Department of Public Works Architectural Services," and dated May 31, 1957. "Screen Print" written on image.
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Date
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1957-05-31
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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New York Life Building
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Description
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Full frontal view, with horses and buggies in foreground.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Street Business Scene
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Description
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Full frontal and partial side view. Also shows horses and buggies in front of building.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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New York Life Building
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Description
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Full frontal view, with horses and buggies in foreground.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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John Deere Plow Company Building
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Description
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Full frontal and side view; located on the southwest corner of 13th and Hickory. Also shows teams of horses and wagons in foreground.
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Date
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1900
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 37 with Unrelated Cards
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards. Four cards are very small cutouts of people, two playing music, one Asian, one with a monkey. The other five cards show the following:1. A large brown clapboard building.2. Two horses running away with a plow, the farmer in the air behind hanging on.3. People looking at a picture of a man and woman leaving a train in the snow and walking down the platform towards a Fred Harvey sign.4. A winter scene with a barn in the snow.5. Two boys on the street pointing at a women whose skirt has ripped. Card says: "New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Mass. My Dear, you should buy a Light-Running 'New Home' Sewing Machine. Its seams never rip."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Architecture in Kansas City: 1885-1913
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Description
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Discussion of architects in Kansas City and their origins with photos of a few of their works, including the Scarritt Building.
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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American Institute of Architects Guide to Kansas City Architecture & Public Art
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Description
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Book filled with photos, maps, and descriptions of numerous structures of architectural significance in Kansas City including buildings, residences, and public art works and including newer buildings up to 2000 with sections of the book for Downtown, Westside, Old Northeast, East Side, Midtown, Brush Creek and Country Club, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Independence, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas.
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Date
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2000
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Description
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Biographical sketch of John Seddon, "one of Kansas City's most prominent and best known contractors and builders." Born in England in 1849 and emigrating to Kansas City in 1866 with his parents as a brickmason. Builder of "the Midland Hotel building, the Kansas City Board of Trade building, the water works building, the American Bank building and the Catholic Cathedral at [12th Street] and Washington streets."
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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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Santa Fe Trail Termini
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Description
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Paper read by W. L. Campbell before the Kansas City Historical Society on December 13, 1906, about the Santa Fe Trail terminus buildings in San Francisco and Kansas City, the latter built in 1856 at the northwest corner of 2nd and Main Streets, with the Mechanics Bank on the second floor, occupied in 1866 by the National Water Works Company, and destroyed by the 1886 cyclone.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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E. L. Winn
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Description
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Photo and description of the business of E. L. Winn, a building contractor with offices in the Scarritt Building and yards at 18th and Baltimore Avenues. Native and lifelong Kansas Citian and builder of the following: "the new addition to the Baltimore Hotel, the Star Paper Mills, the Metropolitan Power House, the Loose-Wiles Candy and Cracker Factory, Jewish Synagogue, Studebaker Building, Griffin Wheel Works, John Deere Building and other large structures in Kansas City."
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Date
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1911~
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Object Type
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Book
Pages