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Title: Proposed Master Plan
Description: Proposed master plan for Kansas City, Missouri development, including highways, thoroughfares, neighborhood boundaries, residential areas, business & commercial areas, railroad and industrial areas, public spaces, and public schools and recreation areas. Map covers Kansas City, Missouri city limits south of the Missouri River, with connections shown to surrounding communities, including North Kansas City, Missouri, Johnson County, Kansas, and Raytown, Missouri.
Date: 1946
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of the City of Kansas - Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Map of the City of Kansas, later known as Kansas City, in Jackson County, Missouri. Major streets, railroad lines, additions and subdivisions are marked. Landmarks and significant buildings are labeled. Harlem on the north side of the Missouri River in Clay County, Missouri, is shown.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Map

Title: P41 Union Station Construction Photographs Finding Aid
Description: The Union Station Construction Photographs collection consists of 49 photographs of Kansas City’s Union Station and corresponding infrastructure while under construction. The photos are identified, dated between 1910-1911, and offer insight into the scope of work put into the building that would serve as the primary transportation hub of Kansas City into the middle of the 20th century.
Date: 1910/1911
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Unidentified Building under Pennsylvania Avenue Interlocking Viaduct
Description: View of unidentified building located beneath the Pennsylvania Avenue Interlocking Viaduct.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Streetwalker: More than Just a Railroad
Description: Photo and article about the diversified operations of Kansas City Southern Industries, best "known as the operator of Kansas City Southern Lines, a 1,700-mile railroad."
Date: 1990-06-25
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Early History of the Lumber Trade of Kansas City
Description: From the booklet's dedication page: "This little booklet is issued at the request pf Jay Coatsworth and Frank P. Strickland life-long friends, and is dedicated to the memory of the Kansas City Lumberman of the Eighties who have 'Crossed the Bar,' and to all others interested in the upbuilding of Kansas City, making it truly The Prophetic City. the future Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. - C. P. D. This booklet is a compilation of a series of articles written by C. P. Deatherage, and published in various issues of the Retail Lumberman, of Kansas City, beginning October 15, 1922, and ending August 1, 1923."
Date: 1924
Object Type: Book

Title: Coca-Cola Building and Vicinity
Description: Promotional drawing produced by the Ennis-Edwards Realty Company and included within a booklet promoting the advantages of the Coca-Cola Building. The illustration highlights the building's close proximity to the Liberty Memorial, Union Station, rail lines, major streets, the downtown hotel district, the retail district, the office building district, and the headquarters of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers.
Date: 1927
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Louis Houck: Opponent and Imitator of Jay Gould
Description: Biographical article about Louis Houck (~1840-1925) and his establishment of three short-line railroads in southeastern Missouri, from 1881 to 1913, based around Saint Louis, and competing with rival railroad executive Jay Gould.
Date: 1956-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Shewey's Map - City St. Louis
Description: Map of the city of St. Louis showing streets, parks, ward boundaries, public buildings and institutions, railroad lines and depots, the Mississippi River, and routes for cable cars, electric cars, horse cars, and proposed elevated lines. Includes an inset map of Carondelet.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Southern Express Train
Description: A Kansas City Southern Railroad Express train traveling over an unknown bridge. A car passing beneath the bridge can be seen.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1924 Road Map of Jackson County, MO.
Description: Map showing different types of roads (macadam, graded, oiled, and earth) as well as railroads, electric lines, section lines, towns, and streams in Jackson County, Missouri.
Date: 1924
Object Type: Map

Title: West Bottoms Buildings
Description: View looking northwest of the rear side of buildings along 8th Street west of its intersection with Madison Avenue. The J.G. Peppard Seeds, Loose-Wiles Cracker and Candy Company, and Faultless Starch Company buildings. A train is also in view on flooded railroad tracks.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Geographically Correct Map, showing Chicago, Alton & St. Louis and Chicago, Kansas City and Denver Short Lines and Connections...
Description: Map showing the service area for the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis and the Chicago, Kansas City & Denver railroads. The area includes the East Coast of the United States west to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, from Canada south to the Gulf of Mexico. Rail lines and major cities are marked, and the map includes insets for the vicinities of Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia. Timetables and railroad advertisements are included on the reverse side.
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City as a Railroad Center
Description: Map showing Kansas City as a railroad center from "A Survey of the Economic Aspects of Flood Protection on the Kansas and Missouri Rivers in the Kansas City District," 1934-1937.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Map

Title: Frisco Lines
Description: Map of Frisco Lines in Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO, showing tracks in vicinity of Santa Fe Street and Packingtown Main, January 1, 1917. Map has “Recvd 10-26-30” written on it.
Date: 1917-01-01
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Terminal Railway
Description: Kansas City Terminal Railway Map showing accounting sections, Oct. 20, 1924 (revised March 1929)
Date: 1924-10-20
Object Type: Map

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