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Title
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Hotel President
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Description
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Partial street side view of the Hotel President located at 14th and Baltimore in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View is looking toward the south, located in the Power and Light Entertainment District. Includes the Drum Room with the hotel sign on the building. Building was not in use when photograph was taken.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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14th Street
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Description
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Street level view looking west at the northwest corner of the 14th and Walnut intersection in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The backside of the Hotel President is in view. Area is part of the city's Power and Light Entertainment District.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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John Brock's Flying Record
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Description
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Photos and description of John Brock, an optometrist and "President of the Specialty Optical Company, 1009 McGee Street," honored in 1930 at the Hotel Muehlebach for his record-setting 365 days of consecutive flying, going on to set another record, still unbroken in the year 2000, of flying every day for 10 years, from 1929 to 1939.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Municipal/Downtown Airport
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Description
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Photos and history of Kansas City's second principal airport established in 1927 known under various names until settling on "Municipal Airport" and "renamed Kansas City Downtown Airport" in 1972 with the establishment of Kansas City International Airport to the north in Platte County. Includes the full text of the dedication speech by pilot Charles Lindbergh at the Hotel President August 17, 1927.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
