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101. Hold Last Rites for Mrs. Sallie C. Love Hold Last Rites for Mrs. Sallie C. Love Vertical file containing an obituary for Mrs. Sallie Love, a former music teacher in Kansas City and Rosedale, Kansas, with residence at 2623 Euclid Avenue. Love was born in Colorado as Sallie Jordan and...
102. Holiday House Association Holiday House Association ca1930 Folder contains a fold-out pamphlet with photographs and a smaller pamphlet with stick illustrations as well as a postal envelope. The Holiday House Association of Kansas City was a non-profit group who...
103. How The West Has Grown How The West Has Grown April 2010 Chart of population growth of cities in the U.S. West for 1870, 1880, and 2000 accompanied with three maps marked with routes across the West and population numbers. States included are Arizona, Arkansas,...
104. Illinois Illinois 1998 Topographical map of the state of Illinois illustrating geographic features of the state, including lakes and rivers. Map also depicts locks along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, as well as cities including...
105. Imperial Kansas City, 1900: Her Wonderful Growth and Resources Imperial Kansas City, 1900: Her Wonderful Growth and Resources 1900 Description of the business of J. W. Hoover, "bridge engineer" with offices in the New York Life Building," devoting special attention to highway bridges, viaducts and kindred work," including past work...
106. Interesting Bits of History Interesting Bits of History March//1945 One paragraph quoted from the "Rocky Mountain News" newspaper of April 18, 1860, describing the amazing speed of wind wagons from the Missouri River across the Great Plains to Colorado.
107. Interesting Bits of History Interesting Bits of History March 1, 1945 Two paragraphs about the site of the two-story house built by William Bent in the later Colorado portion of Kansas Territory just before his death in 1869, "two miles east of Las Animas," later torn down....
108. Jacob Earl Tobler Jr. Jacob Earl Tobler Jr. December 27, 1998 Obituary for Jacob Tobler Jr. who died December 24, 1998, at the age of 75 in Grand Junction, Colorado. Tobler was son of the founder of Tobler Flowers begun in 1900 in Kansas City.
109. James A. Hazlett Papers Finding Aid James A. Hazlett Papers Finding Aid 1929-1997 (bulk 1960-1990) James A. Hazlett was born in Kansas City on May 26, 1917, and died in the same city on September 14, 1997. He was employed by the Kansas City Missouri School District for many years as a teacher, principal,...
110. James J. Akard Papers Finding Aid James J. Akard Papers Finding Aid 1861-1917 (bulk 1861-1865) James J. Akard was born July 7, 1838, in Polk County, Missouri. He was captain of Company A, Eighth Missouri State Militia Cavalry during the Civil War. After the war he was elected to the state legislature...
111. Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns 1963 Description of the establishment of a Colorado fur trading stockade by the Bent brothers, trappers for the American Fur Company in the 1820s, before "constructing the better known Bent's Fort on the Arkansas"...
112. Jim Baker Jim Baker Information about Jim Baker (1818-187?), an explorer of the West involved in the fur trade in the Rocky Mountains with a cabin on the Little Snake River valley in Colorado.
113. Joe Sanders Collection Finding Aid Joe Sanders Collection Finding Aid circa 1908-1950 (bulk 1920-1940) Joe Sanders was born in Thayer, Kansas, and spent the majority of his childhood in the Kansas City area. He started his musical performances as a boy soprano in local church choirs and graduated from Westport...
114. John Barber White Papers Finding Aid John Barber White Papers Finding Aid 1896-1929 (bulk 1901-1921) Born on December 8, 1847, successful lumberman John Barber White moved from New York to Missouri in 1879 to help organize the Missouri Lumber & Mining Company, headquartered in Kansas City. He worked nationally...
115. Kansas City--An Illustrated Review of Its Progress and Importance Kansas City--An Illustrated Review of Its Progress and Importance May//1886 Anthracite coal, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas coal, pig iron, rails and barb wire, underwriter's exchange, Sixth and Wyandotte Streets.
116. Kansas City and the American Legion Kansas City and the American Legion October 1921 Article about plans for the dedication event of the Liberty Memorial with the American Legion, World War I officials from America and abroad, and other festivities, including cowboys and Indians, flying...
117. Kansas City's Most Civilized Man Kansas City's Most Civilized Man August//1988 Portrait and biographical article about James Fisher, columnist of "The Midlands" for the Kansas City Times paper starting in about 1981 "usually about country people and small town people, mostly from...
118. Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908 Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908 1908 Photo and bio of Joseph Hoover, "extensively identified with the bridge building interests between the Mississippi river and Colorado" as well as "the Canton Bridge Company with headquarters at Kansas...
119. Kansas City, Missouri: Pictorial and Biographical Kansas City, Missouri: Pictorial and Biographical 1908 Photo and bio of Dr.George Coffin, moving to Kansas City in 1887 from Colorado, appointed house surgeon of the city hospital in 1894 and city physician in 1895.
120. Kansas City, Mo., a Famous Freighter Capital Kansas City, Mo., a Famous Freighter Capital February//1937 Article about the importance of Kansas City in the mid-1800s as the southwestern freighting capital of the United States. Discussion on various related topics such as competition with surrounding towns...