Swope Park Kansas City, Missouri, 1909 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Swope Park Kansas City, Missouri, 1909, a historic image rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Swope Park, Kansas City, Mo.
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Swope Park Kansas City, Missouri, 1909
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Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1909 was still a young public green space, made possible by the will of Thomas H. Swope, a local real estate investor who died in 1904 and left the city a large tract of land on its southern edge for public use. Kansas City's leaders had recently committed to a boulevard and park system laid out with the landscape architect George Kessler, and Swope Park was meant to give the rapidly growing city room for recreation. Kansas City's wealth at the time rested on the stockyards, meatpacking, and its position as a rail hub on the Missouri River, and the city's population was approaching a quarter of a million. For residents, the park stood for a broader civic ambition: a city that wanted parkland as much as factories and railroads.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | jones, w. h. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,179 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Swope Park, Kansas City, Mo. |
| Reference | MO Swope Park Kansas City 1909 |
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