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Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 6, 1917-1945, Page p847
Description: A portion of the Kansas City Municipal Farm and House of Corrections, located 1.5 miles southeast of Leeds, Missouri, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1917/1945
Object Type: Map

Title: Leeds Traffic Congestion
Description: Traffic jam along unidentified street in Leeds. A Kansas City Southern Lines railroad bridge is in view.
Date: 1946-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Day Trip Celebrating Kansas City's Leeds Neighborhood
Description: An exhibit in Jefferson City, Missouri, during Black History Month, 2003, featured the community of Leeds, home to a group of African Americans in the Kansas City area. The author details the exhibit as well as the trip to see it. Includes a map of the Leeds neighborhood from a 1925 Jackson County atlas. Also includes a reproduction of the front page of the Leeds School dedication and open house program.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Brief History of the Kansas City Tuberculosis Hospital
Description: The Kansas City Tuberculosis Sanitarium was opened on Christmas Day, 1915. Built in response to the need for specialized tuberculosis care, it was located on a part of the Municipal Farm in Leeds.
Date: 1932-09-24
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Jackson County, Missouri: Its Opportunities and Resources
Description: Section about the Leeds industrial district of eastern Kansas City, describing its important industries, including steel, rock quarries, coal, grain, concrete, lumber, railroads, automobiles, and "approximately ninety per cent of all the homegrown cut flowers used in Kansas City."
Date: 1926
Object Type: Book

Title: Tuberculosis Hospital
Description: Exterior view of Kansas City Tuberculosis Hospital built by prisoners of the Municipal Farm in Leeds "under the supervision of the architect and necessary foremen." Prior to the completion of the hospital, patients were cared for in a tent colony on a hill just east of the building beginning in 1913. The hospital opened Christmas Day 1915 with 18 patients from the tent colony. ("Jackson County Medical Journal," Vol. 26, No. 39, pp. 7-11) The building was razed in 1971 ("Kansas City Star," October 8, 1995, page 4). Address in 1916 city directory simply says Leeds, Mo. In 1932, it was listed as being at 1410 Raytown Road, and in 1942 and 1955 at 4210 Raytown Road.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Just Like the Garden of Eden: African-American Community Life in Kansas City's Leeds
Description: Article traces the history of Leeds from about 1915 - 1960. Leeds was a semi-rural area within Kansas City where residents could buy their own homes, have large gardens, and raise farm animals. It particularly attracted African-Amercan families who had migrated from the rural south. Despite poverty, the close-knit life in the community, endeared it to many of the former residents interviewed for this article.
Date: 2004-01-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Forgotten Cemetery
Description: Article about Leeds cemetery and the role of Gloria Lundi in saving it from other uses. "Lundi has found burial records for Leeds for people who died between 1910 and 1934." Of the Hispanics buried in Leeds, 90 percent were former Westside residents.
Date: 2011-03-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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