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Title: Boston Baseball Team
Description: Group portrait of Boston baseball team, at unidentified location, probably in Boston. Believed to be Johnny Kling first person on the left.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Kansas City Architect: The Boston Connection
Description: Biographical article about architect Benjamin Brooks, moving from Boston to Kansas City in 1885, working here until 1919 on apartments and houses, including the Beals Building and residence and the Massachusetts Building, all demolished, and churches and houses in the Northeast residential district still extant, with photos.
Date: 1983-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: An Interesting Parallel: The Proposed Activities of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Club of Kansas City Strikingly Contrasted
Description: Similarities between the plans and operations of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Kansas City Commercial Club.
Date: 1916-01-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Railroad Maps of Boston and Vicinity
Description: There are two maps in this pocket set. The colored map titled, Rail Road Map of All Street and Steam Railroads in Boston and Vicinity, also notes churches, schools, public buildings, and railroad stations. The map titled, Rail Road Map Showing the Street Railroad Routes in and leading from Boston, shows the terminus points for all railroads leading from Boston.
Date: 1865
Object Type: Map

Title: E. P. Dutton and Co.'s Map of Massachusetts with Railroads and Townships
Description: This pocket map of Massachusetts shows the railroads, townships, major towns, and counties in the state. The map also includes insets for the cities of Boston, Springfield, Lowell, Salem, and Worcester.
Date: 1863
Object Type: Map

Title: Boston Building
Description: Full frontal and side view; located at 134 W. 8th.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Boston Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Boston Apartments at the corner of 38th and Main Streets, circa 1982, looking east from 38th Street. The structure was built circa 1915 and has wings facing both 38th and Main.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Encyclopedia of Massachusetts: Biographical--Genealogical
Description: Description of the bridge and cable car work done by Bates in Kansas City.
Date: 1916
Object Type: Book

Title: Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island
Description: This map shows the counties, cities, railroad lines, and roads across the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Date: 1834
Object Type: Map

Title: Encyclopedia of Massachusetts: Biographical-Genealogical
Description: Photo and description of Theodore Cornelius Bates, or Theodore Bates (1843-1912), "president of the Terminal Bridge Company of Kansas City, Missouri," among other positions elsewhere, describing his work with the erection of the A. S. B. Bridge (Armour, Swift & Burlington) and its related land reclamation and flood prevention.
Date: 1916
Object Type: Book

Title: Boston Shoe Store
Description: Description of the shoe store located at 4th and Main streets.
Date: 1886-05
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Boston Shoe House
Description: Advertising card for Boston Shoe House with image of violets. One of two cards with similar design. Front of card says: "J. P. O'Neil with Boston Shoe House." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Cor. 4th and Main, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Boston Shoe Store
Description: Advertising card for Boston Shoe Store showing a small African American man holding a large slice of watermelon and waving off a wasp. One of two cards with similar design and theme. Front of card says: "Boston Shoe Store.." .Large stock and lowest prices in the city. Seeing is believing." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Cor. Fourth and Main Streets, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Boston Shoe Store
Description: Advertising card for Boston Shoe Store showing a small man who looks stereotypically Asian holding a large bowl and chopsticks. A cat next to him carries a rat in its mouth. One of two cards with similar design and theme. Front of card says: "Boston Shoe Store.." .Large stock and lowest prices in the city. Seeing is believing." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Cor. Fourth and Main Streets, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Boston Shoe House
Description: Advertising card for Boston Shoe House with image of a poppy. One of two cards with similar design. Front of card says: "J. P. O'Neil with Boston Shoe House." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Cor. 4th and Main, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Boston Shoe House
Description: Advertising card for Boston Shoe House showing a horse with a man's body dressed in a waistcoat, jacket, and top hat, wearing a monocle, and holding a whip. Caption says: "I would I were a boy again." Front of card says: Boston Shoe House...Large Stock of Fine Shoes. Lowest Cash Prices. J. Swim, Proprietor." Front lower left corner says: "Copyrighted 1880." Back of card has advertising copy and a price list: "Ladies' High Cut Shoes, 75 cts to $6.00; Ladies' Slippers, 15 cts to 3.50; Men's Shoes, 75 cts to 6.50; Men's Boots, $1.25 to 7.00; Children's Shoes, 15 cts to 2.50." Address given on front and back of card:
S. W. Cor. 4th & Main Sts.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: A History of Lawrence, Kansas, from the First Settlement to the Close of the Rebellion
Description: Photo and description of Amos Lawrence of Boston, "one of the first men of means to endorse the movement for the settlement of Kansas in the interest of freedom," co-founder of the city's "state university," and namesake of the town.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Description: Biographical sketch of Silas Bent, Sr. (1768-1827), "appointed by President Madison, Judge of the Superior Court of the Territory of Missouri" from 1813 until statehood in 1821, originally from Massachusetts, "a son of Silas Bent, of Sudbury, Mass., who commanded the famous 'Tea Party' in Boston Harbor December 16, 1773," and previously a judge in Ohio, settling there in 1788.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of T. H. Beekman, a cashier with the American National Bank and founder of the Boston & Kansas City Cattle Loan Company and the Beekman Lumber Company, arriving in Kansas City starting in 1894, originally from New York, later moving to to Des Moines, Iowa, and in the wholesale hardware and banking businesses in Saint Joseph, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: The Man Who Avenged Lincoln
Description: Biographical article about Thomas P. Corbett, or Boston Corbett (1832-18??), an English emigrant supposedly killing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, before fleeing to Kansas and disappearing in 1886 after an escape from a mental asylum, with illustration.
Date: 1958-12-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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