Independence
Independence names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Independence a city and countyseat of Jackson co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and countyseat of Jackson co., Mo.; on the Chicago and Alton, the Kansas City Southern, and the Missouri Pacific railroads; 4 river, and 10 miles S. of the Missouri miles E. of Kansas City. It is the seat of St. Mary's Academy. The city has public high school, public library, Washington and Fairmount Parks, electric light plants, a National and other banks, and many important industrial establishments. Independence was occupied by the Mormons in 1831-1838, and during this period was a noted rendezvous for their emigrants. Its nearness to Kansas City makes many of its business interests Publishers' Photo Service A STREET SCENE IN DELHI, CAPITAL OF INDIA Enc. Vol. 5-p. 137 Publishers' Photo Service A BRIDGE OF RAWHIDE ROPE ACROSS THE SRINAGAR RIVER, INDIA Publishers' Photo Service A GROUP OF SNAKE CHARMERS, INDIA Publishers' Photo Service ELEPHANTS READY FOR A STATE PARADE IN DELHI, INDIA Brown & Dawson THE DOMES OF THE PEARL MOSQUE, AGRA, INDIA Publishers' Photo Service INDIANS AND LLAMAS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF PERU Photo Brown Bros. INDIANS FROM PATAGONIA, SOUTH AMERICA Underwood & Underwood POTTERY MAKING BY HOPI INDIAN WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST Publishers' Photo Service AMERICAN INDIANS FROM THE INTERIOR OF PERU common with those of that city. Pop. radical sign to denote the degree of the (1910) 9,859; (1920) 11,686.
Independence a city of Kansas
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Kansas, the county seat of Montgomery co. It is on the Verdigris River, and on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific railroads. It is the center of an important gas and oil field region. Its industries include cotton mills, planing mills, flour mills, a glass factory, cement plants, machine shops, etc. It has hospitals, a public library, an excellent park system, a courthouse, high schools etc. Pop. (1910) 10,480; (1920) 11,920.
Independence DECLARATION OF
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DECLARATION OF. See DECLARATION OF INDEPEND- ENCE.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 it counted 11,686 people in Independence, Missouri, and described it chiefly as a satellite of Kansas City with a Mormon past from 1831-1838. The city now holds roughly 123,000 residents and is best known as the home town of Harry S. Truman, who left it for the White House in 1945 and returned to the presidential library built there in 1957; the Mormon connection Collier's mentioned in passing survives as the international headquarters of the Community of Christ, whose spiral temple was dedicated in 1994. Independence, Kansas, went the other way: the "important gas and oil field region" that supported its glass factory and cement plants faded, and its population of 11,920 in 1920 has slipped to around 8,500. The cross-reference to the Declaration of Independence still leads where it always did.
Written for this edition, 2026.