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Title: The Country Club Plaza: America's First Shopping Center
Description: A 22 page photocopy of a research paper presented to the School of Arts and Science at Central Missouri State University. It contains footnotes and a bibliography.
Date: 1975
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: The Kansas City Union Station Massacre
Description: A 60-page paper presented by Gloria Maxwell at the NOLA (National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History) Conference held July 23-25, 1987, about the Union Station Massacre in the 1930s. Includes illustrations.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Upton Hays: Confederate Officer was Descendant of Daniel Boone
Description: Brief biography of Upton Hays, great grandson of Daniel Boone, killed while leading a Confederate brigade near Newtonia, Missouri, in October 1862.
Date: 1987-05-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City's Crystal Palace Bought
Description: Article describes the building of the Crystal Palace for the agricultural exposition of 1887. The building stood between 13th and 14th streets and Agnes and Kansas avenues. "It had 17 acres of floor space with 80,000 square feet of glass forming its roof." The Palace was destroyed by fire in 1901.
Date: 1987-06-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article