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Obituary for Miss Amanda Rucker, a teacher in the Kansas City school system for 44 years dying at the age of 84. Native of Huntsville, Missouri starting in 1900 as a teacher in Kansas City middle…
Date : 1954-11-20
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Topographical map of parts of Holt County in Missouri and Richardson County, Nebraska, including the towns of Rulo, Nebraska, and Craig, Missouri. Numerous schools, churches, and roads are depicted…
Date : 1920
Collection: Maps
A portion of Kansas City from E. 24th Street south to E. 25th Street and from Park Avenue east to Prospect Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to…
Date : 1909 to 1957
Collection: Sanborn Maps
A portion of Kansas City from E. 13th Street south to E. 15th Street and from Main Street east to Grand Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to…
Date : 1909 to 1937
Collection: Sanborn Maps
A portion of Kansas City from W. 23rd Street Trafficway south to W. 25th Street and from Jarboe Street east to Madison Avenue, showing buildings, railroads, and streets. Large numbers at edges of…
Date : 1939 to 1957
Collection: Sanborn Maps
A portion of Kansas City from E. 70th Street Terrace south to E. 72nd Street and from Olive Street east to Montgall Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page…
Date : 1930 to 1941
Collection: Sanborn Maps
Photo and bio of Randal Hunter, "city chemist" starting in 1887. He was born in Ohio in 1855 and came to Kansas City in the 1870s with the "profession of analytical chemist" and…
Date : 1890
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Photo and entire book about William Torrey Harris, or William Harris (1835-1909), a prominent American philosopher living in Saint Louis, describing his life and career, a native New Englander known…
Date : 1924
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Topographical map of Kansas City, Missouri, overlaid by street grid. Major streets identified, as well as schools, railways and hospitals.
Date : 1940
Collection: Maps
Topographical map of Platte and Clay counties in Missouri, including the town of Nashua. Also depicted are roads of varying grades, schools, churches, and numerous local creeks.
Date : 1950
Collection: Maps
Topographical map of an area of Gentry and DeKalb counties in northwest Missouri. Northern half of the quadrangle had not yet been surveyed at the time of printing, but the southern half depicts…
Date : 1925
Collection: Maps
Map of Saline County, Missouri, that includes highways, railroads, streams, the post office town Marshall, schools, churches, and cemeteries. Includes the townships of Grand Pass, Miami, Jefferson,…
Date : 1910 (year approximate)
Collection: Maps
Street map of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, showing parks, park districts, railroad and street car lines, etc. Inset map of the Midwest shows railroad lines converging on Kansas…
Date : 1894
Collection: Maps
Photostatic copy of map of Missouri and portions of Kansas with counties, county seats, and the Pacific Railroad line.
Date : 1867 to 1868
Collection: Maps
Land ownership map of the northern part of Jackson County, Missouri, showing railroads, electric railroads, highways (macadamized, graded, main), rural mail routes, streams, churches, school houses,…
Date : 1900
Collection: Maps
Topographical map of eastern Jackson County, Missouri, including Lee's Summit, Lake Lotawana, Prairie Lee Lake, and Jackson County Lake. Map also depicts schools, churches, cemeteries,…
Date : 1957
Collection: Maps
A portion of Kansas City from W. 24th Street south to W. 25th Street and from Madison Avenue east to W. Pennway, showing buildings, railroads, and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to…
Date : 1939 to 1949
Collection: Sanborn Maps
Title page of 1909 volume (updated to 1957) that reads "Insurance Maps of Kansas City, Missouri, Volume Three, Published by the Sanborn Map Company."
Date : 1909 to 1957
Collection: Sanborn Maps
A portion of Kansas City from E. 26th Street south to E. 27th Street and from Poplar Avenue east to Denver Avenue, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with…
Date : 1940 to 1941
Collection: Sanborn Maps
A portion of Kansas City from W. 57th Street south to W. 59th Street Terrace and from State Line Road east to Belleview Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of…
Date : 1917 to 1957
Collection: Sanborn Maps
A portion of Kansas City from E. 11th Street south to E. 13th Street and from Oak Street east to Cherry Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to…
Date : 1909 to 1937
Collection: Sanborn Maps
A portion of Kansas City from W. 39th Street south to W. 41st Street and from State Line east to Wyoming Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to…
Date : 1909 to 1950
Collection: Sanborn Maps
A portion of Kansas City from E. 33rd Street south to E. 34th Street and from Gillham Road east to Campbell Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to…
Date : 1909 to 1950
Collection: Sanborn Maps
Northeastern part of early Kansas City from about Guinotte Avenue south to about Saint John Avenue and from Lexington Avenue east to Highland Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and railroad lines.…
Date : 1896 to 1907
Collection: Sanborn Maps
Central part of early Kansas City from W. 25th Street south to W. 26th Street and from Summit Street east to Washington Street, showing buildings, streets, and a portion of Penn Valley Park. Large…
Date : 1895 to 1907
Collection: Sanborn Maps