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Title
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Central Park Art Gallery
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Description
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Northeast corner of gallery at 1644 Wyandotte
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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13th Street in the West Bottoms
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Description
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Street level view of the south side of 13th Street in the West Bottoms. The Central Bag Company building is located in the center with an address of 1323-1331 W. 13th Street.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City, Kansas Church Recovers from Floods/Flight
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Description
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Central United Methodist Church at 933 Argentine, in the Armourdale area, has survived several floods since it opened its second building in 1924. Flood damage from 1951 and suburban flight almost caused it to close its doors in the 1990s, however. In 1994 former and current members joined together to restore the church which now provides a variety of services to the community.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Newsletter Article
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Title
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Stuart Hall Building
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Description
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Partial front view of Stuart Hall Building, 2121 Central.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865), one of the most notorious of Confederate guerrillas or Bushwhackers in the border warfare period and during the Civil War in the Kansas City area, including the raid and massacre in Lawrence, Kansas, on August 21, 1863.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Bridges and Railroads in Kansas City
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the growth of Kansas City in its Reconstruction period after the Civil War, especially spurred by the building of the Hannibal Bridge by Octave Chanute for railroads, the leveling of the Missouri River bluffs for buildings and streets, and the promotional efforts of early city builders such as Robert Van Horn, Kersey Coates, et al., with several large photos and illustrations.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Southwest Boulevard
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Description
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Street level view of the south side of Southwest Boulevard in the 300 block between Central Street and Broadway Boulevard. Includes a portion of the Skates Belting & Supply Co. located at 321 Southwest Boulevard.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City: An American Story
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Description
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Maps illustrating the increase of Kansas City, Missouri's, area through annexations during the 1960s and the concomitant migration of population away from the central city to the suburbs.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of William Horatio Powell (1882-1984), an attendee of Kansas City's Central High School going on to become "one of the movie industry's leading romantic male performers" in the 1930s, best known in Dashiell Hammett's "Thin Man" series.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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America's National Historic Trails
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the Santa Fe National Historic Trail, following the Santa Fe Trail between (central and western)Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico, from Mexican independence in 1821 to the late 1800s, starting or passing through the Kansas City area as one of its principal launching points historically, with photos and map.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Along the Boone's Lick Road: Missouri's Contribution to Our First Transcontinental Route--U. S. Highway 40
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Description
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Description and maps regarding the history of Boone's Lick Road, or Boone's Lick Trail (from Saint Louis to Old Franklin, Missouri) in conjunction with Missouri's first public road laws and routes (including the 1851 plank road and 1925 Highway 40), and Boone's Lick, also called Boon's Lick, a salt manufactory in central eastern Missouri, started about 1805 by Nathan Boone and Daniel Morgan Boone.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Whitley Sisters Remember: Living with Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Article about the Whitley sisters, a representative group of black women experiencing racial segregation in Kansas City during the "Great Migration" of blacks to northern industrial cities in the 1920s and 1930s, also with much information about the sisters' East Side neighborhood.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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