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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Description
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Photo and bio of Thomas Swope, a prominent real estate investor and developer of Kansas City. Born in Kentucky in 1827 and coming here in 1857 as a realtor, donating the large tract of land southeast of town later known as Swope Park in the 1901s.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Thomas Swope
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Description
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Biography of Swope and description of the memorial.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Thomas H. Swope Memorial
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Description
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View of the Thomas H. Swope Memorial located in Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. No print image, negative and digital only.
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Swope Park
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Description
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Description with photos of the park and its unique features.
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Date
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1905-05-15
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Here Lies Col. Swope
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Description
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Article details the life and mysterious death of Colonel Thomas Swope. The author includes details of Swope's character and the "naive" philanthropies of his life, as well as an examination of his death and the subsequent trials of Dr. Clark Hyde for his alleged murder.
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Date
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2004-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Thomas Swope
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Description
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Biographical description of Thomas Swope, "a shy, wispy bachelor who built a fortune by his shrewd real estate investments." Description of his part in the city beautiful movement with the donation of the land southwest of Kansas City in the 1890s for Swope Park, a huge addition to the city's park and boulevard system.
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Date
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1905-05-17
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Thomas Swope
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Description
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Biography of Thomas Hunton Swope (1827-1909), "a real estate developer and philanthropist in Kansas City," nicknamed "colonel" for his position in early real estate wealth. Donator of Swope Park land in 1896 despite opposition to the park and boulevard system and murdered mysteriously in 1909.
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Date
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1905-06-21
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Object Type
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Book
