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Title: Calvin Coolidge and Queen Marie, Guests at the Liberty Memorial Dedication
Description: Postcard commemorating the visit of President Calvin Coolidge and Queen Marie of Romania at the Liberty Memorial Dedication in 1926.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Carver's Legacy
Description: Pictures and article about the George Washington Carver National Monument just south of Joplin, Missouri, and its new makeover. It features a "replica classroom based on young George's Neosho school experience" and a laboratory that is an exact replica of Carver's classroom at Tuskegee Institute.
Date: 2009-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: City Monuments and Buildings Provide Ample Car Tag Design
Description: Design for stickers beginning with 1933. Previous to 1933 using metal tags.
Date: 1941-01-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Columns Embellish Corridor
Description: Two pairs of columns have been added to downtown. One pair is at Broadway and 5th Street and the other at U.S. 169 and Missouri 9 highways. The columns are part of an ongoing campaign known as the Broadway Corridor Enhancement Program and are designed to make the entrance to downtown more inviting.
Date: 2005-01-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Confederate Soldiers Monument
Description: Full frontal and side view of monument to 15 Confederate soldiers. Cemetery located at 28th and Warwick Trafficway.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Confederate Soldiers Monument
Description: Full frontal and side view of Confederate Soldiers monument, commemorating those soldiers killed in the Battle of Westport.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Confederate Soldiers Monument
Description: View of Confederate Soldiers monument and tombstones at south end of cemetery. Monument commemorates those soldiers killed in Battle of Westport. Cemetery located at 69th and Troost.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Confederate Soldiers Monument
Description: Close-up view of base of Confederate Soldiers monument, south end of the cemetery. Monument commemorates those soldiers killed in Battle of Westport.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Continental Oil Co. Official Road Map of Missouri
Description: Road map of Missouri showing the state highway system and the various type of roads within that system, as well as cities and towns according to population. Map also shows small portions of states bordering Missouri and larger portions of Illinois and Kansas. The reverse side of the map shows a small Continental Oil Co. Road Map of the United States including a key to National Parks and Monuments. Also included is a list of Continental Oil Company Service Station locations throughout the country.
Object Type: Map

Title: Corps of Discovery Sculpture
Description: The bronze statue entitled "Corps of Discovery" is located in Case Park at 8th and Jefferson streets in Kansas City, Missouri. Sculpted by Eugene Daub, the Lewis and Clark statue, commemorating the Lewis and Clark expedition, is 18 feet tall and 21 feet wide. The five figures are Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, York, and Seaman, Lewis' dog. It was dedicated April 20, 2000. A replica of the sculpture can be seen in the Missouri Valley Room of the Kansas City Public Library.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Corps of Discovery Sculpture
Description: The bronze statue entitled "Corps of Discovery" is located in Case Park at 8th and Jefferson streets in Kansas City, Missouri. Sculpted by Eugene Daub, the Lewis and Clark statue, commemorating the Lewis and Clark expedition, is 18 feet tall and 21 feet wide. The five figures are Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, York, and Seaman, Lewis' dog. It was dedicated April 20, 2000. A replica of the sculpture can be seen in the Missouri Valley Room of the Kansas City Public Library.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dedication of Elm Grove Marker
Description: Article describes the June 1, 2002 dedication of an interpretive marker near the site of the Elm Grove Campground southwest of Olathe, Kansas. The campground was a stop on the Santa Fe Trail for thousands.
Date: 2002-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: F. C. Wornall, 96, Still Urges Monument to City's Pioneers
Description: File containing a map and article about the plans for an improved entrance and addition of a "monument to the pioneer dead who lie in Union cemetery," first proposed by Francis Clay Wornall, or Frank Wornall in 1942 with the Native Sons of Kansas City.
Date: 1952-02-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Founding of Westport, Mo.: Charles Spalding, Westport and Kansas City's First Town Booster
Description: Photo and biographical article about Charles Carroll Spalding, or Charles Spalding (1826-1876 ca.), perhaps the first civic booster or promoter for Kansas City and Westport. Native of Vermont coming to Kansas City about the mid-1850s as city engineer (appointed in 1855 and producing a map of Westport there) and newspaper writer (hired in 1856 on the Kansas City Enterprise by editor Robert Van Horn). Author of the 1858 book (one of the first published in Kansas City) "Annals of the City of Kansas" and city clerk in 1860 before returning to Vermont and serving the Union in the Civil War.
Date: 1978-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Highway Map Missouri
Description: Road map of Missouri showing the state highway system and the various type of roads within that system, as well as cities and towns according to population. Map also shows small portions of states bordering Missouri and larger portions of Illinois and Kansas. State parks, county seats and points of interest are also identified. The reverse side of the map shows insets of Kansas City and St. Louis and a road map of the United States including National Parks and Monuments.
Date: 1937
Object Type: Map

Title: Historical Marker
Description: Frontal view of historical marker which reads "Shelby's Last Stand", commemorating the Battle of Westport. Cemetery located at 69th and Troost.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: History of Johnson County, Kansas
Description: Picture and description of the 1907 dedication ceremony of a Santa Fe Trail marker in the courthouse square of Olathe, Kansas. The monument was erected by the Johnson County Old Settlers Association.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Book

Title: Jim Bridger
Description: A collection of 54 pages of photocopied articles concerning Jim Bridger, his grave and his monument in Kansas City. These clippings were orginally located in the Special Collections mounted newspaper clippings primarily in the Missouri section.
Date: 1904/1950
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City and the American Legion
Description: Article about the Liberty Memorial dedication, a $2 million project. Designed by architect H.V.B. Magonigle for World War I dead.
Date: 1921-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

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