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1. ''Walks In Water'': The Impact of Steamboating On the Lower Missouri River ''Walks In Water'': The Impact of Steamboating On the Lower Missouri River 2001 This book traces the history of steamboating on the lower Missouri River or Missouri Valley area starting with the beginning in 1818 to the 1860s when railroads brought a decline to river transportation....
2. 125 Years, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City 125 Years, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City October 21, 2007 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...
3. 12th Street 12th Street November 1, 1965 12th Street was formerly known as Ottawa Street. George Fuller Green and Calvin Manon found this information shown on an old 1863 plat map in November 1965, with the city's numbered streets originally...
4. 150 Facts About Kansas City 150 Facts About Kansas City 2000 List of 150 facts prepared for the sesquicentennial of Kansas City in 2000.
5. 1982 Flood 1982 Flood Flood on Friday, August 13, 1982.
6. 28 Years of Cable Cars in Kansas City 28 Years of Cable Cars in Kansas City Summer, 1993 Article about the history and unique facts about cable cars and street railways other than the electric type in Kansas City, detailing each company, with photos.
7. 6th Street Trafficway 6th Street Trafficway The 6th Street Trafficway opened October 7, 1957.
8. A. C. Koogle's A. C. Koogle's 1879 Description of a business at the foot of Main Street carrying "robes and fur goods." Koogle's manufactured "specialty of buffalo robes, wool dusters, fancy lined robes, carriage mats, and wolf robes, and...
9. A. C. Koogle's A. C. Koogle's 1879 Description of a business at the foot of Main Street carrying robes and a variety of fur goods.
10. A. C. Moffat A. C. Moffat 1879 Description of "Dealer in Pianos, Organs and Musical Merchandise," located at 615 Main Street.
11. A Few Facts about Kansas A Few Facts about Kansas December/24/1910 Article about the legal prohibition of alcohol in the state of Kansas and its effects on the population at the state line in the form of saloons such as the O. K. Club, etc. Description also of topics...
12. A Few Interesting Facts About Kansas City Streets A Few Interesting Facts About Kansas City Streets Spring 2005 Article looks at some Kansas City streets that run east-west as well as some north-south streets and gives the names today compared to the names used in early Kansas City. Also included in the article...
13. A. J. Reynolds A. J. Reynolds 1883 Portrait and mention of A. J. Reynolds as a 55-year-old official in Pike County, Missouri, in 1882.
14. A. R. Jackson A. R. Jackson 1879 Business at 224 Main Street manufactured Display show cases.
15. A Thrilling Record: Founded on Facts and Observations Obtained during Ten Days' Experience with Col. A Thrilling Record: Founded on Facts and Observations Obtained during Ten Days' Experience with Col. Wm. T. Anderson, the Notorious Guerrilla Chieftain //1868 Booklet about the guerrilla warfare activities of William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson, or Bloody Bill Anderson, during the Civil War, including the massacre at Centralia, Missouri, from "the lips of a participant,...
16. A WPA Road Tour A WPA Road Tour April 1, 2006 Author travels Tour Six in the Missouri WPA Guide, driving U.S. Highway 60 from Charleston to Neosho. Article includes facts and information about Missouris WPA American Guide tour book (page 26).
17. Abner Moyer Abner Moyer 1882 Biographical sketch of Abner Moyer (1821-1878), a farmer and former tanner in Linn County, Missouri. Description of his life and career as a native of Virginia moving to Missouri in 1843 as a teacher,...
18. Abraham Lincoln Bust At the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Abraham Lincoln Bust At the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art June 7, 1976 In 1946, the school children of Kansas City, Missouri, through the Patriots and Pioneers Memorial Foundation, donated a bust of Abraham Lincoln to the Nelson Gallery of Art. The bust portrays Lincoln at...
19. Air Transport Operations In Kansas City Air Transport Operations In Kansas City The first regularly scheduled air transport operations began May 12, 1926. ''Yesterday marked the eighteenth anniversary of the beginning in Kansas City of regularly scheduled air transport operations....
20. Albany Hotel Albany Hotel Louis Curtiss designed the Albany Hotel at the northeast corner of 9th and Charlotte Streets, built around 1895.