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Box 7

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Correspondence with Board President J.J. Swofford, refers to park fund certificates. (11 pages), 1902

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.

Dates: 1902

Correspondence with Henry Wright; Board Secretary Alexander Rankin; Civil Engineer and Superintendent of Parks W.H. Dunn; engineering firm Ford, Bacon, and Davis, of New York City; and Board President J.J. Swofford, and payroll. (14 pages), 1904-1905

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.

Dates: 1904-1905

Correspondence with Board members A.J. Dean and Fred S. Doggett and Board Secretary F.P. Gossard, copy of printed park and boulevard map, and payroll. (16 pages), 1906

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.

Dates: 1906

Letters with City Counselor D.J. Haff, Park Superintendent W.H. Dunn, Board member Fred S. Doggett, Board Secretary F.P. Gossard, Board President Franklin Hudson, and A.J. King, unsigned deed of Mary T. Whiteside, and reports on the Terminal Railway and Belt Line. (25 pages), 1907

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.

Dates: 1907

Correspondence with Board President Franklin Hudson, Park Superintendent W.H. Dunn, City Counselor D.J. Haff, and Associate City Counselor W.A. Knotts, and a report concerning the price per foot of constructing boulevards. (7 pages), 1908

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.

Dates: 1908

Correspondence with E.O. Moffat, C.F. Morse, James H. Garnsey, Board Secretary F.P. Gossard, City Counselor D.J. Haff, Board member J.W. Wagner, and Board President A.J. Dean, and a report regarding the right-of-way for railroads through parks. (26 pages), 1909

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.

Dates: 1909

Correspondence with Walter B. Stevens, Board President D.J. Haff regarding a proposed municipal center, Board Superintendent W.H. Dunn including a postcard from New York City (August 20), Board Secretary F.P. Gossard, and Associate City Counselor Hunt Moore, letters from Kansas City constituents responding to a proposal published by Kessler concerning boulevard expansion and acquisition of land south of town by the Park Board (January 16-17), and reference to Supreme Court decision concerning the validity of land acquisition and city expansion. Reports: "Needs of Administration of Park System" (April 16), "General Maintenance" (April 19), "Program of Park Works 1910" (May 7), construction and improvement work, cost of improvement estimates (June 4), "Plans Pending" (June 21), "Projected Improvements" (August 20), and "Park Improvement" (September 22) by D.J. Haff; rough draft and report by Kessler regarding the evolution of the park and boulevard system; and a report regarding payroll and the Swope Park fund (October 31). (One map highlighting Kansas City's park and boulevards in OVERSIZE.) (175 pages), 1910

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.

Dates: 1910

Correspondence with Park Superintendent W.H. Dunn, Board President D.J. Haff, Park Engineer Fred Gabelman and H.C. Broadwell with reference to bubble fountains, Von Schrenk and Kammerer in St. Louis concerning specification for creosoting paving blocks, reference to the use of Catalpa trees for Arbor Day, and telegrams. Annual report to board from Kessler, memo to W.H. Dunn concerning civil service examination (January 10), "Exhibit of Requirements to be apportioned from the General Fund of Kansas City for 1911 with Recapitulation and Index" (March 10), park expenditures (March 25), and report to board regarding operations, improvements, and studies (April 17). Of interest is a letter from D.J Haff to Kessler dated August 24, Los Angeles, where he gives his impressions on its park system and refers to Swope Park as Kessler's "opus magnum." In Kessler's response, he points out that Henry D. Ashley publicly credited Frederick Law Olmstead with the design of the Kansas City park and boulevard system instead of Kessler. (Pages 13 and 18 of report dated April 17 in OVERSIZE with copies in file.) (90 pages), 1911

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.

Dates: 1911