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Title: Pictorial Map: Society Is Selling Photographic Reprints
Description: Photos and article about the news of the reprinting for sale of the Grinter pictorial map of Jackson County by the Jackson County Historical Society. Biographical information also about the map's creators, the late Mr. John Grinter (?-1960), a photographer and surveyor, and his wife Mrs. Sallie Grinter (ca. 1880-1967), a teacher and surveyor, both residents of Independence.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Municipal Farm
Description: Map and legal description of the Kansas City Municipal Farm. Map includes boundaries, details of the Kansas City Southern Railway right-of-way, and text of legal descriptions of three tracts of the farm property.
Date: 1967-03-22
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Grounds, Kansas City Municipal Farm
Description: Detailed map of the grounds of the Kansas City Municipal Farm. The map includes diagrams of buildings, streams, roads, Interstate 435, and the Kansas City Southern Railway. The deed citations for each tract of land comprising the grounds of the farm, as well as the year acquired, are included as map details.
Date: 1964
Object Type: Map

Title: Housing Survey - Kansas City, Missouri - Negro Districts Map
Description: Map prepared by the Missouri Era Non-Manual Works Program, the City Plan Commission, and the Jackson County Emergency Relief Committee showing African American population centers in Kansas City in 1934. The map was included as part of the 1934-1935 Report of the Housing Survey of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Map

Title: Bird's Eye View - Kansas City
Description: Pictorial map showing the cities and towns of Kansas City, Missouri; Harlem, Missouri; Westport, Missouri; Rosedale, Kansas; Argentine, Kansas; Armourdale, Kansas; Armstrong, Kansas; Riverview, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; and Wyandotte, Kansas. At the time of its publication, the map had an extensive key listing the numbered buildings, most of which has been removed. Steamboats traveling along the Missouri River can be seen. The map displays the steep bluffs and topography of the region. It also indicates Kansas City's expansion southward away from the Missouri River, the development of the stockyards industry in the West Bottoms and interconnectivity with the surrounding cities and towns that followed completion of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Map

Title: Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Aerial view of Kansas City from the northeast. Buildings, railroad lines, and other features rendered pictorially. Key at bottom of map identifies churches, schools, reservoirs, businesses, etc. Street names are shown. Hannibal Bridge is shown open for river traffic.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Map

Title: Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Aerial view of Kansas City from the northeast. Buildings, railroad lines, and other features are rendered pictorially. Key at bottom of map identifies churches, schools, reservoirs, businesses, etc. Street names are shown. The Hannibal Bridge is shown open for river traffic.Typed note taped to back of map reads, "George Ehrlich did extensive research to determine the date of this map - 1878 lithograph, Bird's Eye View, for his 1979 book "Kansas City, Mo.: An Architectural History, 1826-1976."
Date: 1878
Object Type: Map

Title: Bird's Eye View of Early Kansas City
Description: Framed (14 in. x 20 in.) map which is a reproduction of "Case & Norman's Stranger's Guide to Kansas City, Missouri." Caption at bottom reads: "To accommodate Kansas City newcomers, this 1887 map often rotated structures to present frontal views of buildings for easier identification." Map is a bird's eye view of Kansas City situated where the Kansas and Missouri Rivers converge. Includes an inset which is an advertisement for the National Agricultural Exposition held in 1887 and features the Crystal Palace or Exposition Building. This map was reproduced by the library's Marketing Department to sell in the early 1990s.
Date: 1887
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Kansas City's Expressways
Description: Illustrated map showing the planned expressway system in the Kansas City area in 1952. Text printed on the map explains how the freeway system will work and how it will benefit the public. The map displays a plan to route the expressways close to the downtown area of Kansas City, Kansas, that was later changed.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Map

Title: Bird's Eye View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Sepia-toned aerial view from the northeast, showing the Missouri River, Hannibal Bridge, and the city of Kansas City with streets and buildings marked. Points of interest (churches, etc.) numbered; key on back of map. Also on the back is handwritten, "Star, Sept. 30, 1928."
Date: 1869
Object Type: Map

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