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Title: ' I Plant Myself...Down on My Unquestionable Rights': Elijah Lovejoy's Fatal Stand for Freedom
Description: Article tells the story of Elijah Lovejoy, St. Louis abolitionist. His impassioned denunciations of slavery in his newspaper, The Observer, incurred the wrath of pro-slavery elements. Lovejoy moved his presses across the river to Alton, Illinois but an angry mob attacked him there, killing Lovejoy and destroying his presses. His death served to mobilize abolitionists to take action and added to the growing strife that would cause the Civil War.
Date: 2006-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: $10,000 Grant Received for Further Restoration of Harris-Kearney House
Description: News of a grant from the W. J. Brace Charitable Trust to the Westport Historical Society for continued restoration of the Harris House at 40th and Baltimore.
Date: 1979-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: $10,000 Grant Received for Further Restoration of Harris-Kearney House
Description: Brief description of William Brace, or W. J. Brace, "chairman and president of the Gleaner-Harvester Corporation" and "one of Kansas City's earliest automobile dealers and distributors, associated with Hudson-Brace" Motor Company, also a "civic and charitable leader" as a "major supporter of the Nelson Art Gallery and the Kansas City Cradle" and the Westport Historical Society for restoration of the Harris-Kearney House through his trust fund.
Date: 1979-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The 10 Most Corrupt Cities in America
Description: Review of the "10 most corrupt" city governments in the nation, describing involvement in bribery and embezzlement by Kansas City city officials Jeanne Robinson and Michael Hernandez, among other city government offenses.
Date: 1998-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 100 Years of Aviation
Description: Entire issue of Gateway Heritage devoted to flight. Includes primary sources such as letters by the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh. Chapters are: How We Made The First Flight; To Octave Chanute, Esq.; Lighter Than Air; Nerve and Cold Courage; Well Known in Aviation Circles; The Tuskegee Experiment; Mr. Mac: Sanford N. McDonnell; A Pilot's Story; The Eagle Flies (Irv Burrows recounts his role as the test pilot of the F-15 Eagle). Heavy emphasis on aviation in St. Louis.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 100 Years of History: The State Historical Society of Missouri Celebrates Its Centennial
Description: Article about the history and collections of the State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia on the society's centennial in 1998. Description of its vast holdings, including "the largest state newspaper collection in the nation," etc., and its "award-winning" publication, the "Missouri Historical Review" magazine.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A 10,000 Year-Old Oasis - Alley Spring
Description: Article about the history and prehistory of Alley Spring in the Missouri Ozarks. Article describes its mills since 1869 as well as its unusual geology and remains found of Indians and mastodons.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 1017 and 1019 Broadway Boulevard Buildings
Description: View of two buildings that once stood at 1017 and 1019 Broadway Boulevard. The view is facing east. The 1017 building displays signs advertising Budweiser Beer and the 1019 building has boarded up windows.
Date: 1983~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1017 and 1019 Broadway Boulevard Buildings
Description: View of two buildings that once stood at 1017 and 1019 Broadway Boulevard. The view is facing east. The 1017 building displays signs advertising Budweiser Beer and the 1019 building has boarded up windows.
Date: 1983~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 103 Years of History
Description: Article that gives a short history of The Independent magazine. It was started in 1899 by George Creel and Arthur Grissom as a political magazine. Ten years later two women, Katherine Baxter and Clara E. Kellogg bought it and dropped the political side. The magazine has missed only one issue, in 1947, when the typographers' union was on strike.
Date: 2002-03-16
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 10th Street
Description: Looking east from the south side of 10th between Baltimore and Central.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 10th Street
Description: Looking east along 10th from Central. Shows street car.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 10th Street
Description: View looking east down 10th Street, taken from the 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue intersection in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The First National Bank (later home to the Central branch of the Kansas City Public Library) is visible on the left as well as the Fidelity Building twin towers. The Victor Building can be seen next door to the bank and a Rothschild's sign across the street.
Date: 1953-07-13
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 10th Street
Description: Looking west from the north side of 10th between Baltimore Avenue and Central Street.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 10th Street, East from Baltimore
Description: Postcard of 10th Street, facing east from Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1909
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 11th and Grand Avenue, Looking North
Description: Postcard of the intersection of 11th Street and Grand Avenue facing north.
Date: 1912~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 11th Street
Description: Looking east along 11th from between Wyandotte and Central.
Date: 1930-03-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 11th Street, West from McGee
Description: Postcard of 11th Street looking west from McGee Street.
Date: 1913~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 12th Street
Description: Looking east along 12th from Central.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 12th Street
Description: Looking east along the north side of 12th between Central and Wyandotte.
Date: 1976
Object Type: Photograph

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