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Blazing a Trail to Oregon: Jumping-Off at St. Joe
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Article about the travels of Cornelius "Neal" Gilliam and his parties on the section of the Oregon Trail from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to central Kansas in the 1840s, with illustrations and maps.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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George Edward Kessler
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Photos and biographical article about George Kessler (1862-1923), a nationally prominent landscape architect and designer of Kansas City's park and boulevard system. Description of his life and career, a native of Germany emigrating to America as a child and starting his career in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1882, before opening an office in Kansas City and designing the park and boulevard system by 1893, "completed with the help of businessman August R. Meyer and newspaperman William Rockhill Nelson." Description of his later career, arriving in Saint Louis in 1902 for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and Forest Park restoration, although "remain[ing] an advisor to the Kansas City Park Board until his death." Called "the leading landscape architect and city planner of the early twentieth century," designing plans for cities around the world, especially in the United States.
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Municipal Auditorium
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Photograph of Municipal Auditorium. A marquee in front advertises an August 31, 1991 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers concert. The building, on the block bound by 13th, 14th, Wyandotte and Central Streets, was built in the early 1930s and dedicated on December 1, 1935. The Americana Hotel, at 1301 Wyandotte, can be seen in the background of the image.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Beginning of American Royal
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"Perhaps you would be interested in knowing how this great show came into being. As early as 1880 pure-bred Angus, Shorthorn, Gallaway, and Hereford cattle were being brought into the Central West and Southwest. By 1883 strong rivalry existed between the breeders of this section as to the relative merits of the different breeds. At first, it was known as the Kansas City Fat Stock Show Association. Their first show was held in 1882 in River View Park. In reporting a meeting of the four cattle breeders associations, in August 1901, the Drovers Telegram used the heading, 'The American Royal Is Coming.' Thus was christened what was destined to be one of the most far-reaching events in the Middle West."
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Mother and Teacher as Missouri State Penitentiary Inmates: Goldman and O'Hare, 1917-1920
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Photos and biographical article about Kate O'Hare ("a well-known socialist") and Emma Goldman ("a famous anarchist"), fellow inmates at the Missouri State Penitentiary (at the time "the United States' largest and arguably most inhumane modern penal institution") in Jefferson City, Missouri, from 1917 to 1920. Description of O'Hare as a native of Ottawa County, Kansas, mvoing "to the West Bottom[s] slums of Kansas City, Missouri," about 1897 with her parents and joining the Socialist Party of America in 1901. Description of Goldman as a Jewish native of Russia "emigrat[ing] to America in 1885 at the age of sixteen."
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Preventing Extinction
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Description
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Article about the diversity of Missouri's species of plants and animals, as well as other natural phenomena making them possible, such as the types of underlying soil and rock, humid continental climate, etc.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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The Changing American Landscape: The Art and Politics of Joe Jones
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Photos, illustrations, and biographical article about "St. Louis-born artist Joe Jones (1909-1963)," a regionalist painter and political activist starting in Saint Louis in the 1930s and associated with the working class during the Depression. Description of his later career, painting murals for many Midwestern postoffices and becoming nationally known, producing paintings for large corporations and covers for Fortune and Time magazines, etc.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Fighting the River on the Katy Trail, 1892-1992
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Description
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History of the Katy Trail on its centennial anniversary, named after "the Missouri, Kansas & Texas ('Katy') Railway," named "officially the Missouri River State Trail." Description of the determination and construction of the railroad's route from Texas to Saint Louis and Kansas City, with maps and photos.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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The Civil War in the West: The 1864 Trail Season
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Description
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Article about the Civil War in the West, meaning west of the Mississippi River, the area much less commonly covered in detail in histories of the war. Photos, map, and illustrations included.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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The Federal Courthouse Building: A Threat?
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Description
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Contemplation about replacement of the United States Courthouse building at 811 Grand Avenue because of inadequacy for future needs.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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The Hole Story
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Description
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History of Silver Dollar City, an amusement park designed in the 1950s as "a replica of an old fashioned, Ozark town atop" a cave, and opened in 1960. Description and photos of its attractions, including rides, caves, pioneer Ozark settings, and memorabilia of the six episodes of "The Beverly Hillbillies" television shows filmed there.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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