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Title
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Westport Map
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Description
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1855 Westport map reproduced in a publication entitled "The Uptowner".
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Date
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1947-01-16
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport Road
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Description
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View looking southwest from 530 Westport Road from Mill Street.
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Date
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1948-06-07
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westport Trucker
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Description
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Bound volume of several issues of the Westport Trucker, the self-proclaimed "underground newspaper" of Westport.
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Date
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1971/1972
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Westport Intersection
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Description
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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.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Goodbye, Westport
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Description
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Discusses the influx of chain businesses into Westport and how they alter the perception of the area.
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Date
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1998-06-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Westport Trucker
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Description
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Incomplete collection of Westport Trucker, a counterculture newspaper distributed in Kansas City, Missouri, beginning in 1971.
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Date
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1971/1972
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Westport House
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1984
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Old Westport
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1965-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Historic Westport
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1980-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Historic Westport
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1979-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Old Westport
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Description
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Descriptions of the two of Westport's oldest buildings, the Chouteau-Bridger Building, now Stanford & Son's, and the "Ewing-Boone Building" or Boone's Trading Post, now Kelly's, both built in the mid-1800s, with descriptions of their histories and need for architectural preservation.
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Date
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1977
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Old Westport
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Description
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Stories and newspaper excerpts from about 1843 to 1860 concerning wind wagons built like sailboats with wheels for crossing the Great Plains from Independence or Westport, with illustration.
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Date
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1977
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Old Westport
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Description
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Article about the early settlers and events before the Civil War in Westport, including the Santa Fe trade and the slavery issue.
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Date
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1965-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Westport Square
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Description
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Map, photo, and article about the "new Westport Square Development in the Westport district," intended as a commercial area preserving at least part of the old Westport's historical flavor. Also a detailed description of many of Westport's early businesses and business men and their addresses.
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Date
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1974-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Westport, Missouri
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Description
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Looking northwest from the southeast corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania Avenue in Westport, Missouri. Boone's Trading Post can be seen on the right.
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Date
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1892
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Neighborhoods: Old Westport, New Westport
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Description
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Article describing the recent business and land use trends in Westport, including its revitalization as a "center of off-beat fashion, new-age art and. ..crowded, but energetic night clubs," also with some history back to its 1830s origins and a painting reproduction."
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Date
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1988-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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SC134 Westport High School Class Photographs Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains student photographs from Westport High School for the classes of 1907, 1912, and 1917. The collection also includes a set of student photographs that are not dated.
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Date
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1907/1917
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Westport - Its Place in Western History
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Description
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Author prepared and read this 12 page paper before the Broadway Improvement Association, Oct. 6, 1941. Includes a cover letter dated May 25, 1962, addressed to Mr. George Fuller Green.
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Date
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1941
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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Westport Junior High School & Westport High School
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Description
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Photograph of Westport Junior High School, foreground, and Westport High School, background, on 39th Street circa 1980. The high school was built in 1908, and the middle school was built in 1924 as a junior high school, and served as Kansas City Junior College from 1942 to 1969, and then a temporary location for Manual High School from 1969 to 1977, then returned to use as a junior high, and later middle, school. Both school buildings were closed by the Kansas City School District in 2010, and sold to private developers in 2014.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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