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Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of Robert Green, a railroad worker born in England in 1833 and "numbered among the heroes of the English wars in India". He emigrated to Kansas City about 1881, "establishing his home on Flora street, near the old fair grounds," then "buil[ding] a frame dwelling at No. 2122 Penn avenue" and later still moving to 120 East 34th Street, retiring as a farmer.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of Francis Colton, a pioneer travel agent born in Maine in 1834, becoming "United States consul to Venice, Italy, from 1866 to 1869" and foreign agent to China for the Union Pacific Railroad, "plac[ing] on sale in Europe the first 'round-the-world' ticket," residing in Washington, D. C.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Photo and bio of Thomas Swope, a prominent real estate investor and developer of Kansas City. Born in Kentucky in 1827 and coming here in 1857 as a realtor, donating the large tract of land southeast of town later known as Swope Park in the 1901s.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 1]
Description: Volume one of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 2]
Description: Volume two of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 3]
Description: Volume three of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Photo and autobiography of William Whitehead Taylor, or William Taylor, a retired brickmaker and building contractor. Born in England in 1844 and raised in Kansas City during the border warfare and Civil War periods (with description of many related incidents and early brickmaking locations) before building the following structures: "the first Packing House in Kansas City, several power houses for the Metropolitan St. Railway Company, W. J. Smith's warehouses and factory, the County Court house, County jail, Board of Trade, American Bank, Midland Hotel, Water-works Building, Heist Building and a great many dwelling houses."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Photo and bio of James Slover, "judge of division No. 6 of the circuit court." Born in Pennsylvania in 1838 and moving to Independence, Missouri in 1864 as a lawyer before becoming mayor in 1868. Also husband of Mary Howe Slover, or Mary Slover, daughter of William Howe (a Santa Fe trader in Independence) and relative of "Colonel Davey, a noted Mexican trader of his day, who settled at Independence in 1836."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Downtown, Northeast from R. A. Long Building
Description: Postcard view of downtown Kansas City, looking east from the roof of the R. A. Long Building.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Annual Review of Greater Kansas City Illustrated, 1908
Description: Photos and description of the early fur and Indian trade of the West and its relation to the settlement of Kansas City, discussing the role of local traders such as the Chouteau family, Joseph Guinotte, and Northrup & Chick, et al.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Annual Review of Greater Kansas City Illustrated, 1908
Description: Photos, map, and description of the cotton manufacturing industry and its relation to Kansas City's garment industry and distribution to the rest of the country.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

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