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Title: Meyer Building
Description: View looking east of the Meyer Building on Main Street between its intersections with 39th and 40th streets in Midtown. Signs for Pacific Finance and Liebstadter Real Estate & Insurance can be seen.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Prairie Village - 69th Street
Description: View of a row of houses, one a furnished exhibition house, situated along 69th Street in Prairie Village, Kansas. Cars and visitors to the exhibition house can be seen.
Date: 1941
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Parkview Drugstore
Description: View looking east of the Parkview drugstore building at 6301 Brookside Plaza. Cars and two children on bicycles outside of the store can be seen. Signs for Coca-Cola and Harold S. Bradley Real Estate are in view.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Map of the City of Kansas - Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Map of the City of Kansas, later known as Kansas City, in Jackson County, Missouri. Major streets, railroad lines, additions and subdivisions are marked. Landmarks and significant buildings are labeled. Harlem on the north side of the Missouri River in Clay County, Missouri, is shown.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Map

Title: Bunker Building
Description: Elevated view of the Bunker Building at 9th Street and Baltimore Avenue. Street grading projects can be seen in the background. Residential structures are in view on the left hand side of the image. Four figures are standing outside of the building and a horse drawn carriage is on Baltimore Avenue. A figure is looking out from a window on the 3rd floor. Signs for the Western Newspaper Union, Olson & Covey Real Estate, and Kansas City Publishing can be seen.
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Geroge Humphrey and Elmore Truitt
Description: Photos and biographical articles about George Humphrey, a Kansas City lawyer, and Elmore Truitt, a Kansas City realtor. Description of Humphrey as born in Lewis County, Missouri, and starting out as a teacher before becoming an attorney in 1894 and state senator in 1904, arriving in Kansas City in 1915 and residing at 3208 Olive Street. Description of Truitt as a realtor born in Pennsylvania and coming to Kansas City in 1886, in 1893 establishing "the E.S. Truitt Real Estate Co.," obtaining "the contract for the Westlake Construction Company for the building of the Muehlebach Hotel, one of his many transactions," and residing at 4320 Oak Street.
Date: 1916-05-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Indian Village Country Club: Homes, Not Houses
Description: Promotional booklet for building family homes in 1920s luxury Kansas City suburban tract development now in the Santa Fe Hills neighborhood southeast of 85th Street and Wornall Road. It was to include rare amenities such as an open air theater, bell tower, pool, club house, and Dutch windmill. Built on property owned by Daniel Boone's son Nathan, and featuring the Boone school and home. Businessman developer Emory Sweeney founded an automobile school and WHB radio. Landscape architects Hare & Hare were to handle the project, and George Hamilton Stone was assigned as General Manager. Detailed plat map at center fold. The document claims that the neighborhood will, “exclude undesirable people from the standpoint of morals, character, and integrity.”
Date: 1923
Object Type: Book

Title: Edwards' Map of Jackson Co., Missouri
Description: Plat map of Jackson County, Missouri, and the southern extents of Clay County and Ray County, along the north bank of the Missouri River. Cities and towns, rivers, and parcels of land labeled with their owners' names are shown.
Date: 1887
Object Type: Map

Title: Cowherd Built Homes: The Standard of Value
Description: Promotional book published by the The Fletcher Cowherd Company to advertise new homes built by the firm in the Morningside neighborhood. Several photos and drawings of houses with ownership, address and architect information are included. The book also includes several pages of advertisements for firms connected to the home construction industry.
Date: 1924~
Object Type: Book

Title: Map of Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Plat map of Jackson County, Missouri. Cities and towns, rivers, and parcels of land labeled with their owners' names are shown. A list of rural routes is included.
Date: 1909
Object Type: Map

Title: Getting Taxes Equalized
Description: Story about the sweeping real estate tax reassessments across Jackson County, Missouri, in 1941 and in the wake of political reform after the ousting of the corrupt Pendergast machine. Description of the completeness of the records for every parcel of land to be taxed in the county, both of farms in rural areas and of buildings in urban areas.
Date: 1941-06
Object Type: Magazine

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