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Title Description Subject (Local) Type Date
11th Street West Historic District Lumber Industry, Buildings, Deramus Building, Pickering Lumber Company Vertical File
125 Years, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City Special advertising section to "The Kansas City Star," about the history of Saint Luke's Hospital. Includes historical timeline and facts and a map showing locations of the 11 affiliated facilities. Includes photo of CEO G. Richard Hastings. Hospitals, Saint Luke's Hospital, Saint Luke's Health System, Hastings, G. Richard Newspaper Article 2007-10-21
125th Anniversary Reenactment of The Battle of Westport Civil War Re-enactors, Civil War, Battle of Westport Audio Visual 1989
12th Street Numerous photos and captions about the diversity of types of places and walks of life along the entire stretch of 12th Street in Kansas City, including Craig's Gay 90's Bar, Time to Read bookstore, the Stockyards, J. Agno's Famous Sandwiches, Phrenologist Readings (at 918 12th Street), Wing On Lung Company Chinese food supplies (at 611 12th Street), Golden Arrow Spiritual Church of Christ, police department headquarters, Hotel Muehlebach, Elmwood Cemetery, the Street Street Shoe Shine Parlor, and past the Blue Valley industrial district its "pleasant end amid towering trees and small homes." Business enterprises, Songs, Nightclubs Magazine Article 1950-09-22
12th Street City Directory Entry Listing for the street: "Twelfth--twelfth south of river, from Summit to limits." Streets, Ottawa Street Book Section 1871
12th Street Poised for Big Things Article about Ollie Gates' plans to revitalize the area around 12th and the Paseo. His vision includes restoring William T. Fitzgerald Memorial Fountain, erect a memorial to African American soliders and construct housing and retail establishments. Gates, Ollie Walter, Sr., Paseo Boulevard, Soldiers, African Americans, Memorials Newspaper Article 2006-03-02
12th Street Viaduct Links Downtown to Bottoms Photo postcard showing the construction of the "new" 12th Street Viaduct and an accompanying article about its opening on March 8, 1915. Postcards, Bridges, 12th Street Viaduct Newspaper Article 2011-07-20
13th Street Photo and information on 13th Street, depicting 1930s structures on the street such as 1880s residences, the "citadel of the Salvation Army," Municipal Auditorium, and the Kansas City Power & Light Building. Streets, 13th Street Vertical File
13th and Baltimore Brief history of the southwest corner of 13th Street and Baltimore Avenue and Ned Eddy's family's businesses in Kansas City. The corner was the location of the upscale supper club Eddy's Restaurant from 1949 to 1964. The 300-seat restaurant, designed by Municipal Auditorium architect Alonzo Gentry, featured a number of high-profile entertainers and was the only site developer J. C. Nichols owned in Downtown. Eddy's Restaurant was demolished after it closed and was replaced by a Chicago Title Co. location. The corner is currently slated for redevelopment. Restaurants, Eddy's Restaurant, 13th Street, Gentry, Alonzo H. Newspaper Article 2014-09-05
140 Years Ago: The Progress of the War--June 1861 Portraits and description of Union General Nathaniel Lyon and "pro-Confederate Governor" Claiborne Jackson of Missouri clashing at the beginning of the Civil War in June 1861 with Lyon "ke[eping] Missouri in the Union by force." Lyon, Nathaniel, Jackson, Claiborne F., Governors, Civil War Magazine Article 2001-06
146-Year-Old Platte City Building is in Peril Brief article states that the historic building on the corner of Third and Ferrel Streets in Platte City may need to be demolished following the collapse of half of its north wall. The author states that heavy rains may have strained the roof leading to the collapse. One of the building's owners is interviewed and expresses his desire to save the structure. Historic buildings, Platte City, Missouri Newspaper Article 2013-05-31
15 Years of Club Profiles Photo (of the former Club 427) and bibliography or directory of Kansas City jazz clubs (past and present) reviewed since the inception of the Jam magazine in 1986. Jazz, Nightclubs, Directories, Bibliographies Magazine Article 2001-06
150 Places to Celebrate Kansas's 150th Birthday Follow the author as he explores different historic places in Kansas. "After a fight over free-or slave-state status (thus another moniker, "Bleeding Kansas"), the free-state Wyandotte Constitution was ratified in 1859, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as the 34th state." Includes a picture of the ranch house at the Spring Hill Farm and Stock Ranch, now part of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, built in 1881 by rancher Stephen F. Jones. Anniversaries, Historic sites, Kansas, Leavenworth, Kansas Magazine Article 2011-03
15th Streets Streets, 15th Street Vertical File
163 Housing Warrants Cleared The Police Department have recently done two special sweeps in the Northeast area to serve outstanding bench warrants issued by the city's housing court. There is some criticism that it is not enough and that more enforcement concerning the cleaning up around homes and neighborhoods needs to be done. Housing, Neighborhoods, Waste Removal Newspaper Article 2002-10-09
171 Voters Are Registered from the Fox Hotel Illustration of the Fox Hotel and list of voters registered from there. Voting, Fox Hotel, Election Frauds, Voter Registration Magazine Article 1919-01
1811 Patrick Gass Journal Part of the Fitzpatrick purchase, this 1811 copy has particular significance because it once belonged to Elliott Coues, one of the editors of the Lewis and Clark journals. It is inscribed, "To Prof. Elliott Coues with the appreciative regards of C. H. Conover. 11/5/94." On the title page, Coues wrote his name in ink followed by "Nov. 5, 1894." This was a year after the publication of his 4-volume edition of the journals. On the last page in the same handwriting in ink appears, "Elliott Coues, from C. H. Conover, Nov. 5, 1894." Below that, Fitzpatrick penciled in, "Purchased Anderson Auction Co. Dec. 4, 1906 $11.50." Charles H. Conover was vice-president of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. in Chicago, Illinois. His collection of Lewis and Clark rare editions was the only private one described in Paltsit's Bibliographical Data. Conover served as vice-president of the Chicago Historical Society, and in 1910 gave his unsurpassed collection to the Society. See Chicago Historical Society Charter, Constitution, By-Laws, Membership List, Annual Report (1910):309-350. [MVSC 977.31 C53c 1910] Gass, Patrick, Coues, Elliott, Fitzpatrick, Thomas J., Lewis and Clark Expedition Book 1904-12-15
1831 Unchronicled Courthouse Familiar [Past Future?] Is Not First Brick Courthouse Investigative report on the "discovery of the existence of an apparently unchronicled early Jackson County Courthouse, built in 1831 on Independence Square, demolished in 1836, and replaced on its foundation by the more familiar 1840 courthouse, with illustration. Jackson County, Missouri, Jackson County Courthouse - Independence, Courthouses, Independence Square Magazine Article 1973-09
1833 Lawsuit Gets Mormons' Notice As part of a joint local records preservation project between Jackson County and the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City, legal documents concerning acts of violence against Mormon settlers have been discovered. The papers concern the tarring and feathering of Mormons Edward Partridge, bishop, and Charles Allen and the destruction of the offices of the Evening and Morning Star, the Mormon newspaper in Independence. Those involved, among others, were Benjamin Majors, Samuel Owens, Richard McCarty, and Richard Fristoe. Partridge, Edward, Community of Christ Church, Majors, Ben, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mormons, Smith, Joseph Newspaper Article 2006-01-04
1840 Kansas City Map Reprint of Father Nicolas Point's 1840 map, from a Kansas City Times article entitled "Earliest Map of Kansas City," depicting the locations of the homes of his parishioners, in the area of the West Bottoms, at his 1835 Saint Francis Regis log church at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenues, with short biographies of each resident, in French with mostly French names. Saint Francis Regis Catholic Church, Point, Nicolas, Settlers--Early, Maps Archival Material