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Title: White School
Description: Full, street level view of E. C. White Elementary School located at 11 Brookside. Named for Edwin C. White, a Central High School teacher.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of Professor Edwin White (1830-1907), former "principal of the Central high school of Kansas City" with residence at 2640 Brooklyn Avenue. Native of Virginia raised in Lafayette County, Missouri and coming to Kansas City in 1870 as a grocer at 12th and Walnut Streets, then becoming a teacher at Westport High School and later a school principal and real estate developer of "the White Brothers addition to the city" around 27th and Brooklyn Avenues.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: White School
Description: Exterior, street level earlier view of E. C. White Elementary School before building was expanded. Located at 11 Brookside Boulevard.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Falling under the Pounding of a Wrecking Ball
Description: Photo and caption about the demolition of "the 57-year-old E. C. White School" in 1965 "to make way for the new Plaza branch library."
Date: 1965-06-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Country Club Streetcar Line and E. C. White School
Description: View looking north along the Country Club streetcar line. Includes outline of proposed roadway northwest through which Brookside Boulevard would connect to 47th Street. Also pictured is E. C. White School.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street and E. C. White School
Description: View across Main Street looking east from the quarry located south of Brush Creek. E. C. White School is pictured, along with Paseo High School and the proposed parkway linking Brookside Boulevard and The Paseo.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street North of E.C. White School
Description: View looking north on Main Street at 49th Street. E.C. White School is pictured, as well as "the Hump" in Main Street at 49th Street.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street North of 49th Street
Description: View of the "Main Street hump," just north of 49th Street near the playground of the E.C. White School. The proposed grade for street improvements is indicated.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Graduating Students At E.C. White School
Description: Exterior view of the graduating class and teachers posed on the steps at E.C. White School, June 1938. Back of picture contains names of pupils. School was located in the Country Club Plaza area.
Date: 1938
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aerial View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Aerial photograph of one square mile of Kansas City, Missouri showing the Plaza area including E. C. White and the Cultural Center. Map identified from set as Section 29, Township 49N, Range 33W, S-79.
Date: 1964-04
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 6, 1917-1945, Page p798
Description: A portion of western Kansas City from W. 47th Street south to W. 50th Street and from Wyandotte Street east to Oak Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1917/1945
Object Type: Map

Title: Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy
Description: On the hill side just west of Mill Creek boulevard, near Forty-third street was a fine spring, the water supply of the [McCoy] family. The branch from it furnished water for the stock. This brook followed the valley and emptied into Brush Creek near where the E. C. White school now stands. The stone spring house stood beneath a big oak tree for about fifty years. The tree is still there.
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

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