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Title: Shipwreck Kelly Is Down
Description: Story of daredevil "Shipwreck" Kelly's record 146 hours and 13 minutes of sitting atop the flagpole of the Westgate Hotel, finished on February 25, 1927. Announcement of his plan the next day to attempt a "loop-the-loop" on an airplane at Richards Field while tied to a flagpole attached to it.
Date: 1927-02-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Grand Junction Hotel
Description: Partial side view; located at the Junction, 9th and Main and Delaware.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westgate Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view; located at the Junction, intersection of Main, 9th, and Delaware.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westgate Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westgate Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Westgate Hotel, once located at the Junction of Main and Delaware streets.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: The Junction
Description: Street level view of the downtown Kansas City area known as the Junction located on 9th Street between Main and Delaware streets. View includes the Kay Hotel which was built in 1916 and razed in 1954. It originally was called the Westgate Hotel.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Westgate Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Westgate Hotel that formerly stood at the Junction of Main and Delaware streets at 9th Street.
Date: 1919~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Westgate Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view of the Westgate Hotel; located at the intersection of 9th, Main, and Delaware streets. Letterhead and logo for the hotel is located on the back of photograph #9.
Date: 1928~
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Flagpole Sitter atop the West Gate Hotel, 1927
Description: Story of the daredevil "Shipwreck" Kelly attempting an endurance record atop the Westgate Hotel's flagpole, lasting 146 hours and 13 minutes in 1927.
Date: 1995
Object Type: Magazine Article

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