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Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: 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.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Where These Rocky Bluffs Meet, Including the Story of the Kansas City Ten-Year Plan
Date: 1938
Object Type: Book

Title: Swope Park
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Kansas City Zoo
Description: Photos, illustrations, maps, and information on the Kansas City Zoological Gardens, or Kansas City Zoo at Swope Park, with description of its various exotic animals and other attractions.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Thrills of a Century: Starlight Theatre, Swope Park
Description: Photos and text about "the Centennial spectacle, 'Thrills of a Century,'" a costume drama about the history of Kansas City.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Well Tended Parks and Boulevards Enrich Kansas City's Beauty
Description: Description of the system in general and how it developed.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Q.: Is the Oldham Road That Runs Through Swope Park Named for the Founder of Oldham's Sausage?
Description: Ruby Oldham of Lee's Summit thinks the road in Swope Park was named for a relative of her late husband, Charles Quincy Oldham, the founder of Oldham's Farm Sausage Inc. Kansas City records don't say. However, another Oldham Road, in Lee's Summit, was named for the sausage maker, who served on the Lee's Summit City Council and was mayor from 1956 to 1964. Oldham began his sausage business in 1940, his wife said. ..By the early 1950s, Oldham was selling sausage throughout Missouri. He retired from the company in 1972 and died in January 1980.
Date: 1993-11-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: East Meyer Boulevard Area Plan: Area Plan 23
Description: Land use, long-range goals, and maps of the East Meyer Boulevard residential district, bounded by Troost, 63rd, the Big Blue River, and 79th-75th Streets.
Date: 1977
Object Type: Report

Title: The Negro in Kansas City
Description: 1944 Survey of African-American community in Kansas City designed to "bring to light facts regarding problems which face the Negro in Kansas City, Missouri, and which are not commonly known by the public." Authors were the Broadside Study Group of League of Women Voters. Topics include education, health and welfare, housing and sanitation, cultural and recreation facilities, labor and employment, and public service. The survey ends with recommendations and a resources / bibliography section.
Date: 1944-04
Object Type: Book

Title: Swope Park
Date: 1936-06-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Swope Park
Description: View of Lake of the Woods, located in Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. No print image, negative and digital only.
Object Type: Negative

Title: The Question Box: Please Give the Height of the Flagpole in Swope Park
Description: The flagpole just east of the main shelter house [of Swope Park] is 175 feet high. The pole, given to the city by the late Jacob L. Loose, originally was 200 feet high and the highest unguyed flagpole in the world.
Date: 1955-08-30

Title: Swope Park
Description: View of Lake of the Woods located in Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas H. Swope Memorial
Description: View looking west from Thomas H. Swope Memorial located in Swope Park. The Swope Park Lagoon is visible below the Memorial.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swope Park
Description: View of the Swope Park Lagoon located in Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swope Park
Description: View of a portion of the Swope Park Lagoon located in the park.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Legion Memorial
Description: View of the American Legion Memorial located near the Meyer Boulevard entrance to Swope Park.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swope Park
Description: View of the grand entrance to Swope Park. Includes view of Shelter House Number 1. No print image, negative and digital only.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Thomas H. Swope Memorial
Description: View of the Thomas H. Swope Memorial located in Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. No print image, negative and digital only.
Object Type: Negative

Title: America's Most Beautiful City
Description: Description with photos of the notable park system: "Tying them all together is the longest system of municipal boulevards in the world."
Date: 1915-07-15
Object Type: Magazine Article

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