Now – December 2025 | Special Collections Gallery, Miller Nichols Library
“A Century of Change: Plates from the 1925 Kansas City Atlas”
The civil engineering firm of Tuttle and Pike, founded in 1885, produced many of the surveys that facilitated the expansion of Kansas City. In 1915 the company was restructured as Tuttle-Ayers-Woodward Engineering Company, and a decade later they published an oversize atlas of the entire city. The atlas features a remarkable level of visual and factual detail: footprints of individual buildings, land ownership, and public transportation routes. This exhibit commemorates the centennial of the atlas with reproductions of the maps of well-known neighborhoods across the city.
What inhabited a century ago the neighborhoods we know as Brookside, Country Club Plaza, Crossroads, Downtown, Hospital Hill, River Market, UMKC, West Bottoms or the Kansas City Stockyards, Westport, or West Side? Visit the exhibit and see what the maps reveal.
The 1925 Kansas City Atlas is held in LaBudde Special Collections at UMKC Libraries. Contact SpecialCollections@umkc.edu to request use of the atlas for research.
Credit
Curated by: Stuart Hinds, Curator of Special Collections & Archives, UMKC Libraries
Digitized by: Scott Gipson, Digitization Specialist, UMKC Libraries
Designed by: Sean McCue, User Interface and Graphic Designer, UMKC Libraries
