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Title: Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse
Description: Front entrance view of the Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse located on 9th Street between Locust and Oak in downtown Kansas City. View is looking toward the north. The courthouse services the Western District of Missouri.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse
Description: Full, street-level view of the Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse located on 9th Street between Locust and Oak in downtown Kansas City. View is looking toward the north, showing the front of the building. The courthouse services the federal court for the Western District of Missouri.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse
Description: Exterior, close up view of the main extrance to the Charles Evans Whittaker United States Courthouse located on 9th Street between Locust and Oak in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View is looking toward the north.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fort Riley's Black Soldiers and the Army's Changing Role in the West, 1867-1885
Description: History of the black regiments at Fort Riley following the Civil War and their involvements in military activities with the Western frontier, Indian lands, etc.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Biography: Charles E. Whittaker
Description: Article about the life of Kansas City lawyer and later United States Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Whittaker and the 1998 new federal courthouse named for him at 9th and Locust Streets, with photos.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Weston United Methodist Renovating Historic Church
Description: Weston Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was dedicated in 1868. Friends of Sacred Structurees Technical Assistance Team is assisting the Church in the first major renovation of its historic structure.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: More Odd & Peculiar--Unusual Town Names in All Fifty States
Description: Two pages about the origin and history of the names of Jefferson City and its three capitol buildings, the state of Missouri and its "Show Me State" slogan, and small towns and ghost towns in Missouri, including Mapaville, Medoc, Devil's Elbow, Frankenstein, and Success.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Rufus Crosby Kemper, Sr. (1892-1972) and James Madison Kemper, Sr. (1894-1965), Bankers
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: Biography of Albert L. Reeves (1873-1971), "one of the two judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri," involved in the Greenlease kidnaping case and the election fraud case of the Pendergast machine in the 1930s.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City International Airport
Description: Photo and history of Kansas City International Airport, established in 1972 as "the third largest in area in the United States (only JFK in New York and San Francisco International are larger)," served by a high of 26 carriers in 1983, with description of its origins starting in 1952.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Downtown Skyline
Description: View looking southwest from 10th and Locust. UMB (United Missouri Bank) Technology Center on Oak Street in foreground.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Street
Description: Street level view looking toward the northeast showing the east side of Oak Street at 14th Street. The demolition of a building at this location is in view. A portion of the Richard Bolling Federal Building is in view on the right and the back side of the Kansas City Jackson County Courthouse is also in view on the left.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: Short biography of David Rice Atchison, or David Atchison (1807-1886), a senator from Missouri who may have been President of the United States for a day on March 4, 1849.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Hotel Schuyler
Description: View looking toward the northwest showing the south side of the Hotel Schuyler located between 10th and 11th Streets on the east side of Locust (1017 Locust) in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The hotel was torn down in November 1999 as part of the Civic Mall/Ilus W. Davis Park redevelopment area. The two-story UMB Technology Center building located on Oak Street is visible to the west of the hotel.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Petticoat Lane
Description: Street level view looking toward the east down 11th Street or Petticoat Lane in downtown Kansas City. View is taken at Walnut Street and provides a partial side view of the UMB bank on the left.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City, Kansas Church Recovers from Floods/Flight
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: The Whitley Sisters Remember: Living with Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

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