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Aerial View of Missouri River at Kansas City
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Description
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Aerial view of Missouri River at Kansas City looking west showing the three bridges-ASB, Paseo, and Broadway-and Municipal Airport as well as the water works and industrial areas. Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas River, and Fairfax area shown. Immediately east of the airport is the former Harlem, Missouri, and portions of North Kansas City. 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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Aerial View of Missouri River at Kansas City
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Description
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Aerial view of Missouri River at Kansas City looking west showing the three bridges-ASB, Paseo, and Broadway-and Municipal Airport as well as the riverfront and water works. It also shows former Harlem immediately east of the airport and portions of North 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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Annie Cade Steamboat
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Description
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View looking northeast of the Annie Cade steamboat traveling on the Missouri River between Kansas City and Clay County. Houses in Harlem, Missouri, can be seen in the background. The piers for the future Armour Swift & Burlington Bridge are in view.
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Date
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1905~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Bird's Eye View - Kansas City
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Description
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Pictorial map showing the cities and towns of Kansas City, Missouri; Harlem, Missouri; Westport, Missouri; Rosedale, Kansas; Argentine, Kansas; Armourdale, Kansas; Armstrong, Kansas; Riverview, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; and Wyandotte, Kansas. At the time of its publication, the map had an extensive key listing the numbered buildings, most of which has been removed. Steamboats traveling along the Missouri River can be seen. The map displays the steep bluffs and topography of the region. It also indicates Kansas City's expansion southward away from the Missouri River, the development of the stockyards industry in the West Bottoms and interconnectivity with the surrounding cities and towns that followed completion of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Map
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Bird's Eye View of Early Kansas City
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Description
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Unframed, mounted photograph (20 in. x 40 in.) of a bird's eye view map drawing, location of original unknown. Image extends from the bend in the Missouri River just below the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers to about Woodland Avenue and from the Harlem area just north of the river to about 20th Street. The West Bottoms are fully shown as well as an island in the river. Riverboats are in view as is the Hannibal Bridge. Street names are given but image is blurry and unreadable.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Catch Big Fish in Shadow of Kansas City Skyscraper
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Description
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Article about the "Harlem community, on the north bank of the Missouri river between the A.-S.-B. bridge and the [Municipal] airport," mostly describing the community's fishing economy, with illustrations.
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Date
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1946-03-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Cows in Harlem Woods
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Description
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Two cows in the woods in area identified on mount as Harlem, Missouri.
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Date
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1888-05
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Downtown Skyline from Harlem
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Description
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Photograph of downtown skyline taken from the Harlem area of Kansas City north of the Missouri River. A house and other smaller buildings can be seen in the foreground. The Hannibal Bridge is in view on the right hand side of the image.
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Date
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1940~/1949~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Ferryboats, Fishing: Old Times Echo Softly in Harlem
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Description
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Photos, map, and article about the town or community of Harlem, Missouri, on the north bank of the Missouri River (Clay County) across from Downtown Kansas City (Jackson County), "bounded by the A.-S.-B. and Hannibal bridges, the Missouri River levee and the south city limits of North Kansas City." Description of the district's history of decine in population since the construction of the Hannibal Bridge in the 1860s, past fishing and ferryboat economy, old-time residents such as police officer Dick Dawson, and introduction of sewers and other utilities upon annexation into the city of Kansas City, Missouri, etc.
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Date
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1973-07-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Flood Scene
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Description
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View looking north from south side of Missouri River toward Harlem in Clay County; also shows V. Baltz Brewery.
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Date
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1881
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Flood Scene
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Description
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View looking north from south side of Missouri River toward Harlem in Clay County; also shows V. Baltz Brewery.
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Date
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1881
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Flooded Harlem, Missouri
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Description
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Identified as Harlem, Missouri during the flood of 1881.
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Date
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1881
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Flooded Missouri River
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Description
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Looking north across the Missouri River towards Harlem during flood; Blatz Brewery building in foreground.
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Date
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1881
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Gillis House Hotel and Missouri River
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Description
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View looking northeast from a hill southwest of the Gillis House Hotel. An individual seated among rocks at the top of the hill and buildings across the river in Harlem can be seen.
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Date
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1869
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Harlem
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Description
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Distant view of area identified on mount as Harlem, presumably Missouri. Feed stable with carriage in front, empty lot with sign advertising Harlem, all lots and addition for sale at great bargains by Lucas Van Horn..., and two men are visible. Sign advertising Herrick Cl[othing] partially visible.
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Date
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1888-07
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Harlem Afternoon
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Description
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Article about the village of Harlem, Missouri, on the north side of the Missouri River across from Kansas City in North Kansas City. Interview of "Captain Kade," former pilot of the Annie Cade ferryboat during the 1903 flood.
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Date
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1935-02-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri
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Description
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History of Harlem, Missouri, "in the extreme southwestern part of the [Gallatin] township, on the north bank of the Missouri, immediately across the river from Kansas City," in North Kansas City, Clay County. A description of its origin with the railroads and regular flooding until after the flood of 1881 is provided.
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Date
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1885
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri - 1907
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Description
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Aerial view looking northeast of Kansas City. The label in the lower right hand corner reads: Kansas City, MO. 1000 ft. above 13th & Summit streets from Lawrence Captive Airship. The Quality Hill area, downtown and the Missouri River in the distance can be seen. Summit, Jefferson, 13th, and 14th streets are labeled.
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Date
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1907
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Life on the Missouri's Banks in the Shadow of Kansas City
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Description
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Article describing the Missouri River-side neighborhood of Harlem in North Kansas City and its "unfamiliar world" between the Hannibal and A. S. B. Bridges, composed of boatmen, unemployed, fishermen in houseboats, and scrap shacks.
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Date
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1938-03-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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