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

Title: Westport Road
Description: View looking southwest from 530 Westport Road from Mill Street.
Date: 1948-06-07
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

Title: Old Westport
Description: Article about the early settlers and events before the Civil War in Westport, including the Santa Fe trade and the slavery issue.
Date: 1965-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Westport Square
Description: 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.
Date: 1974-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Westport, Missouri
Description: 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.
Date: 1892
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Neighborhoods: Old Westport, New Westport
Description: 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."
Date: 1988-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: SC134 Westport High School Class Photographs Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1907/1917
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Westport - Its Place in Western History
Description: 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.
Date: 1941
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Westport Junior High School & Westport High School
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Historic Westport: The Hamiltons of Westport
Description: Photo and biographical article about the Hamiltons of mid-1800s Westport, James Hamilton (~1816-1869), a Western freighter, and his wife Cornelia Hamilton, a daughter of Thomas and Catherine Bernard. Description of their lives and residences, James arriving in Westport from Callaway County, Missouri, by 1843, marrying in 1844, and building their first house "at 557 Westport Road" in 1847 and their second "on what is now the center site of the Old Westport Shopping Center" at Westport Road and Belleview Avenue in 1854.
Date: 1981-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Historic Westport: Jim Bridger of Westport
Description: Biography of the Western explorer Jim Bridger, who became a citizen of the Westport area in 1853 and in 1860 bought the home of Albert G. Boone "a block or so north of the present intersection of Westport and Pennsylvania" Avenues.
Date: 1978-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Around Westport--General News: Westport Historic Survey
Description: Announcement of the "detailed study of the architecture of Westport" to be made by the Historic Kansas City Foundation in a survey for potential nominations for the National Register.
Date: 1977-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

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