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Title: Westport Centennial
Description: Unidentified men and women in costume to celebrate the Westport centennial.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Descendants
Description: Group portrait of female fourth and fifth generation descendants of pioneers of Old Westport.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Bank
Description: View looking southeast of the Westport Bank Building, once located on the south corner of Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard in Westport. Cars traveling along Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard can be seen.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Bank
Description: View looking north of the rear side of the Westport Bank Building, once located on the south corner of Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard in Westport.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Bank
Description: Photograph of the Westport Bank building at the southeast corner of Westport Road and Broadway circa 1980. The bank originally opened in this location in 1906, and in 1978, the building underwent a $300,000 renovation aimed at creating a contemporary version of the building's original facade. The building was torn down in July 2018 for a mixed-use development project.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport History
Description: Illustrations and information on the following subjects: the Daughters of Old Westport, the McCoy Plat of the old town of Westport, Westport city government council proceedings from 1857 to 1883, early churches in Westport, and biographies of the following prominent Westporters: (1) Thomas Fitzpatrick, (2) James Hamilton, (3) John Harris, (4) John Hatcher, (5) Dr. John Parker, (6) John Sutter, (7) the Vasquez family, (8) the Waskey-Purdom families, (9) the Wornall family, and (10) other biographies.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Westport Avenue
Description: View of Westport Avenue, looking east at Broadway Boulevard. Identified as "Old Westport Views."
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Mill
Description: Full frontal and side view with unidentified men in foreground.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Mill
Description: Full frontal and side view with unidentified men in foreground; located at Mill Creek Road and Westport Road.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Landing
Description: Photograph of a drawing, looking south from north side of Missouri River at Westport Landing.
Date: 1855
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Landing
Description: View of Westport Landing, Kansas City's early riverfront, looking south from north side of Missouri River.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Map
Description: 1855 Westport map reproduced in a publication entitled "The Uptowner".
Date: 1947-01-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Trucker
Description: Bound volume of several issues of the Westport Trucker, the self-proclaimed "underground newspaper" of Westport.
Date: 1971/1972
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Westport Intersection
Description: View of the intersection of Southwest Trafficway, Madison Avenue, Westport Road, 43rd Street and Belleview Avenue in Westport facing southwest. A building housing Frank's Brake & Clutch Service on the south side of 43rd Street is in view. Billboards for the First National Bank and Holsum Bread can be seen. The First National Bank billboard shows their main location at 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue where the Central Library is located.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Goodbye, Westport
Description: Discusses the influx of chain businesses into Westport and how they alter the perception of the area.
Date: 1998-06-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Westport Trucker
Description: Incomplete collection of Westport Trucker, a counterculture newspaper distributed in Kansas City, Missouri, beginning in 1971.
Date: 1971/1972
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: Westport House
Description: View of Westport House, located at 4100 Waddell Avenue. Architects Abend-Singleton Associates, Inc. received an award for the building's design, which responds beautifully to an older neighborhood as well as becoming a point of reference for the larger area.
Date: 1984
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Old Westport
Description: Article describing several firsts for the city of Westport, starting with the supposed first white visitor to the land in 1787, Daniel Morgan Boone. Description of early institutions and businesses from the 1830s to the 1860s, mostly related to the Santa Fe Trail trade.
Date: 1965-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Historic Westport
Description: Story of a peace medal from 1837 depicting President Martin Van Buren, found in 1887 in Westport on the corpse of possibly Chief Fool. According partly to John McCoy, Chief Fool was the winner of the medal later exhibited at the 1912 Westport Reunion-Carnival Celebration.
Date: 1980-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Historic Westport
Description: Photo and biographical article about Charles Raber, a western freighter operating out of Westport from 1860 until the building of the Kansas Pacific Railroad through Denver in 1868. Born in Switzerland in 1841 and emigrating to Westport in 1855 and starting out as an employee of Francis Booth before partnering with Martin Keck in his own freighting business. Description of a Westport saloon operated by John Bucher and his brother Phil Bucher and its rivalry with a bar across the street run by the Broad family, etc.
Date: 1979-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

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