Download or read book Historic Dedicatory Monuments of Kansas City written by Kansas City (Mo.). Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Photos of Kansas City written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid nineteenth century, Kansas City was an important trading center for the westward movement. Through the late 1800s, two World Wars, and into the modern era, Kansas City has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity through the strength and resolve of its citizens. This volume, Historic Photos of Kansas City, captures this journey through still photography from the city’s finest archives. From the Civil War, to the turn of the century, to the building of a modern metropolis, Historic Photos of Kansas City follows life, government, education, and events throughout Kansas City’s history. This book captures unique and rare scenes as depicted in nearly 200 historic photographs. Published in striking black and white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.
Download or read book Monumental Mobility written by Lisa Blee and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began to move and proliferate in ways one would not expect of generally stationary monuments tethered to place. The plaster model was donated to the artist's home state of Utah and prominently displayed in the state capitol; half a century later, it was caught up in a surprising case of fraud in the fine arts market. Versions of the statue now stand on Brigham Young University's campus; at an urban intersection in Kansas City, Missouri; and in countless homes around the world in the form of souvenir statuettes. As Lisa Blee and Jean M. O'Brien show in this thought-provoking book, the surprising story of this monumental statue reveals much about the process of creating, commodifying, and reinforcing the historical memory of Indigenous people. Dallin's statue, set alongside the historical memory of the actual Massasoit and his mythic collaboration with the Pilgrims, shows otherwise hidden dimensions of American memorial culture: an elasticity of historical imagination, a tight-knit relationship between consumption and commemoration, and the twin impulses to sanitize and grapple with the meaning of settler-colonialism.
Download or read book An Architectural History of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City Missouri 1918 1935 written by Sarajane Sandusky Aber and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kansas City s Parks and Boulevards written by Patrick Alley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-growing frontier community transformed itself into a beautiful urban model of parks and boulevards. In 1893, East Coast newspapers were calling Kansas City the filthiest in the United States. The drainage of many houses emptied into gullies and cesspools. There was no garbage collection service, and herding livestock through the city was only recently prohibited. Through the diligent efforts of a handful of recently arrived citizens, political, financial, and botanical skills were successfully applied to a nascent parks system. Squirrel pastures, cliffs and bluffs, ugly ravines, and shanties and slums were turned into a gridiron of green, with chains of parks and boulevards extending in all directions. Wherever the system penetrated well-settled localities, the policy was to provide playgrounds, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, pools, and field houses. By the time the city fathers were finished, Kansas City could boast of 90 miles of boulevards and 2,500 acres of urban parks.
Download or read book Lest the Ages Forget Kansas City s Liberty Memorial written by Derek Donovan and published by Kansas City Star Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kansas and the Flag written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Inventory of Architecture and Historic Sites of Kansas City Missouri written by Landmarks Commission of Kansas City, Missouri and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Legacy of Design written by Janice Lee and published by Kansas City Center for Design Education & Research. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Points in Greater Kansas City written by Westport Historical Society (Kansas City, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ceremony of Dedication written by Daughters of the American Revolution. Elizabeth Benton Chapter (Kansas City, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Liberty Memorial of Kansas City U S A written by Liberty Memorial Association (Kansas City, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1921* with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History Lover s Guide to Kansas City written by Paul Kirkman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the sights, sounds, and rich history of Kansas City—from ancient burial mounds to a world-class jazz museum. Kansas City is often seen as a “cow town” with great barbecue and steaks. But it’s also a city with more boulevards than Paris and more working fountains than Rome. There are burial mounds that date back more than two thousand years. The National World War I Museum and Memorial, opened in 1926, stands more than two hundred feet tall. Leila’s Hair Museum has a collection that brings tourists from all over the nation. The Kansas City Jazz Museum features a historic district and world-class museum that document a time when dance halls, cabarets, speakeasies, and even honky-tonks and juke joints fostered the development of a new musical style. Join Missouri historian Paul Kirkman as he cuts a trail past the stockyards and takes you on a tour into the heart of America—Kansas City. Includes photos and information on Kansas City landmarks
Download or read book Landmarks Catalogue written by American Institute of Architects. Kanss City Chapter. Committee on Historic Resources and published by . This book was released on 1980* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Kansas City written by William H. Miller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Kansas City: Together With a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country With Which It Is Surrounded The writer believes that the causes leading to the development of the city in any one epoch of her history were but the development of causes in a preceeding epoch, and that the causes of future development exist at this time, which are as much the outgrowth of past causes as the present large city is the outgrowth of past events. Some effort has been made to bring to view these causes both past and present, it is hoped not without some success. As it is, it is respectfully submitted to public criticism, with the hope that its accounts and conceptions of things may coincide with the recollections of those of our citizens who were witnesses of many of the events it recounts, yet with the fear that they will find much that for accuracy's sake they could wish altered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monuments Memorials and Markers in Kansas City Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
