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1. 1845 Diagram of the State of Missouri 1845 Diagram of the State of Missouri 1845 Map of Missouri marked off into blocks of land, each six miles square, known as townships. Symbols indicate whether or not the townships have been subdivided by surveyors. Lead, iron, copper, coal mines...
2. 1851 Diagram of the State of Missouri 1851 Diagram of the State of Missouri 1851 Map of Missouri marked off into blocks of land, each six miles square, known as townships. Symbols indicate whether or not the townships have been subdivided by surveyors. Names of contracted surveyors...
3. 9th Street, West from McGee 9th Street, West from McGee Postcard of 9th Sreet, West from McGee
4. A Forgotten Legacy: Hundreds of Foreign Miners Were Ostracized by Their Communities A Forgotten Legacy: Hundreds of Foreign Miners Were Ostracized by Their Communities Winter//1997 Story about the rioting in 1917 at the St. Louis Refining & Smelting Company plant in Flat River, involving violence against foreign mine workers from Eastern Europe by Americans fearing the World War...
5. A History of Kansas City, Missouri: Her Business, Population, Natural Resources, and Inducements to A History of Kansas City, Missouri: Her Business, Population, Natural Resources, and Inducements to Manufactures and Capitalists //1873 Descriptions of locations of natural coal fields surrounding Kansas City and other information about shipments of coal mining.
6. A Map Exhibiting the Locality of the Nebraska Gold Mines and the Routes Thereto A Map Exhibiting the Locality of the Nebraska Gold Mines and the Routes Thereto 1859 Map of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, as well as Nebraska and Kansas Territories, showing railroad routes from Chicago, Saint Louis, and other towns to the Missouri River, past which various roads heading to...
7. A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City, Mo. A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City, Mo. 1896 Photo and bio of Thomas Dodds, "superintendent of the streets of Kansas City," born in Ohio in 1855, moving to Scranton, Kansas, as "general manager for the Carbon Coal and Mining Company," and then to...
8. About Zinc White About Zinc White November 1899 The article by Dr. J. Robert Moechel discusses the abundant supply of zinc ore near the Kansas City area and the viability of a possible zinc paint industry. The advantages of zinc paint over lead paint...
9. Above a Great Copper Mine: The Kneeling Nun Still Prays for Mercy Above a Great Copper Mine: The Kneeling Nun Still Prays for Mercy April/18/1937 Illustrations and biographical article about Daniel Jackling, organizer of the Chino Mining Company at Kneeling Nun Mountain in New Mexico in 1909, born in Bates County, Missouri, in 1869 and starting...
10. Aldermen Crunch the Numbers on Limestone Mine Aldermen Crunch the Numbers on Limestone Mine April 14, 2010 Sugar Creek Board of Aldermen discussed whether "to approve a mining application by Lafarge Aggregates to excavate limestone beneath a former dairy farm called Cedar Crest." Article discusses the pros...
11. Altenburg Quadrangle Altenburg Quadrangle 1948 Topographical map of an area of southeast Missouri and southwest Illinois bordering the Mississippi River, including parts of Perry County, Missouri and Jackson County, Illinois. The towns of Altenburg,...
12. American Bank Building American Bank Building Postcard of the American Bank Building at 8th and Delaware
13. An Interview With Alexander Harris An Interview With Alexander Harris 1976-09-01 Interviewer: Horace M. Peterson III. Interview recorded September 1, 1976. 2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed...
14. Animas Forks, Colorado: A Colorado Ghost Town Animas Forks, Colorado: A Colorado Ghost Town 2004 History of Animas Forks, Colorado, including a description of its current status.
15. Argentine Kansas Argentine Kansas Postcards of Argentine Kansas, Silver Avenue & Healy House in Leadville, Colorado
16. Atlanta Quadrangle Atlanta Quadrangle 1908 Topographical map of areas of Macon and Shelby Counties in Missouri, including the town of Atlanta and the Salt River. Also depicted are roads of various grades are shown, railroads, schools, churches,...
17. August Meyer August Meyer 1908 Biographical sketch of August Meyer (1851-1905), a civil engineer and native of Saint Louis, Missouri, coming to Kansas City in 1881 as a mining investor and co-founder of the park board and the park and...
18. August Meyer August Meyer 1888 Portrait and biographical sketch of August Meyer, "president of the consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company" in the Armourdale industrial district of Kansas City, Kansas. Native of Saint...
19. August Meyer August Meyer 1906 Biographical sketch of August Meyer, "President of the United Chemical and Zinc Company" in Kansas City. Description of his life and career, born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1851 and gaining wealth as...
20. August Meyer Residence (Vanderslice Hall), Gold Fish Lake August Meyer Residence (Vanderslice Hall), Gold Fish Lake Postcard of the Gold Fish Lake on the grounds of the August Meyer Residence (Vanderslice Hall)