Books (Historical KC Texts)

Title: Night in Kansas City
Description: A small booklet featuring photographs of Kansas City that have been artistically enhanced to create a nighttime effect.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Centennial 1850-1950 - Souvenir Program
Description: Souvenir program book the Kansas City centennial celebration. The book details the events, organizations involved, and people associated with the celebration. The book contains many advertisements and brief articles detailing the history of various Kansas City area businesses, organizations, and public figures. An index for the book can be found on page 144.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Big Red All-Stars
Description: Program for the Second Annual Junior Governor's Cup Basketball Game held in Jefferson City, Missouri. The charity basketball game was played between members of the Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Cardinals (playing as the Big Red All-Stars) football teams. The booklet contains advertisements, team rosters, and autographs from Chiefs and Cardinals players.
Date: 1973-03-17
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City in 1879
Description: Promotional booklet for Kansas City, Missouri. Item includes sections covering the development of the city's business interests, a list of buildings constructed in 1878, its history, its geographic advantages, descriptions of various businesses and public institutions, descriptions of its suburbs, and advertisements.
Date: 1879

Title: The Negro in Kansas City
Description: 1944 Survey of African-American community in Kansas City designed to "bring to light facts regarding problems which face the Negro in Kansas City, Missouri, and which are not commonly known by the public." Authors were the Broadside Study Group of League of Women Voters. Topics include education, health and welfare, housing and sanitation, cultural and recreation facilities, labor and employment, and public service. The survey ends with recommendations and a resources / bibliography section.
Date: 1944-04
Object Type: Book

Title: Super Bowl: Kansas City Goes to the Final
Description: Promotional booklet published by the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. The booklet contains photographs of civic and business leaders and statements from them congratulating the Chiefs on the team's achievement. Brief articles summarizing development projects going on in the city at that time are included. The booklet also contains several advertisements for Kansas City area businesses.
Date: 1970
Object Type: Book

Title: Social Prospectus of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Report prepared by the Research Bureau of the Board of Public Welfare chronicling the description, demographics, industries, churches, schools, recreational activities, housing, social services available and other problems affecting seven Kansas City districts. The authors of the report pay special attention to the city's immigrant and African American communities. A broad general prospectus of the entire city is also provided. The report contains several photographs and maps provided to illustrate the nature and extant of social and health problems affecting Kansas Citians. The districts covered by the report are: the North West, the North Side, the West Side, the Swope Settlement, the Hospital, Penn Valley and the East Side.
Date: 1913
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas vs. Missouri
Description: Football shaped program for the 1896 Thanksgiving Day football game played by the Kansas University against the Missouri University at Kansas City's Exposition Park, once located north of 15th Street between Montgall and Kansas (Chestnut) avenues.
Date: 1896-11-26
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Electric Park: Kansas City's Coney Island (Souvenir)
Description: Promotion Souvenir for the 14th consecutive season of Electric Park. Contains band concert programs and advertisements with a cover title. M. G. Heim, President Sam Benjamin, General Manager
Date: 1913~
Object Type: Book

Title: The Million Dollar Bird Store
Description: Pet supply catalog published by the Kansas City Bird Store, located at 1421 Main Street. Ralph T. Harding is identified as the company’s founder and president. The catalog is printed in color and contains sections covering an assortment of typical and exotic pets. Images of Harding and exterior and interior views of his store are included.
Date: 1923~
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 2]
Description: Volume two of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 3]
Description: Volume three of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 1]
Description: Volume one of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: The Kansas City Bridge
Description: Book written by engineers Octave Chanute and George Mason covering the design and construction of the Hannibal Bridge, then known as the Kansas City Bridge. Includes illustrations, maps, charts and photographs documenting the bridge’s construction.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Book

Title: The Early History of the Lumber Trade of Kansas City
Description: From the booklet's dedication page: "This little booklet is issued at the request pf Jay Coatsworth and Frank P. Strickland life-long friends, and is dedicated to the memory of the Kansas City Lumberman of the Eighties who have 'Crossed the Bar,' and to all others interested in the upbuilding of Kansas City, making it truly The Prophetic City. the future Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. - C. P. D. This booklet is a compilation of a series of articles written by C. P. Deatherage, and published in various issues of the Retail Lumberman, of Kansas City, beginning October 15, 1922, and ending August 1, 1923."
Date: 1924
Object Type: Book

Title: Indian Village Country Club: Homes, Not Houses
Description: Promotional booklet for building family homes in 1920s luxury Kansas City suburban tract development now in the Santa Fe Hills neighborhood southeast of 85th Street and Wornall Road. It was to include rare amenities such as an open air theater, bell tower, pool, club house, and Dutch windmill. Built on property owned by Daniel Boone's son Nathan, and featuring the Boone school and home. Businessman developer Emory Sweeney founded an automobile school and WHB radio. Landscape architects Hare & Hare were to handle the project, and George Hamilton Stone was assigned as General Manager. Detailed plat map at center fold. The document claims that the neighborhood will, “exclude undesirable people from the standpoint of morals, character, and integrity.”
Date: 1923
Object Type: Book

Title: How to Change Chicks to Gold: Dollars and Sense in the Poultry Business
Description: Promotional catalog for the American Poultry School. The school offered correspondence courses designed to teach income earning from poultry raising. Contains many articles and descriptions of individuals employed by the school, current and former students, and its operations. Included with the booklet are several supplementary brochures and handouts. The school's office was located at 115 E. 31st Street in Kansas City. It's experimental farm was located on 63rd Street in Raytown, Missouri.
Date: 1927
Object Type: Book

Title: Cowherd Built Homes: The Standard of Value
Description: Promotional book published by the The Fletcher Cowherd Company to advertise new homes built by the firm in the Morningside neighborhood. Several photos and drawings of houses with ownership, address and architect information are included. The book also includes several pages of advertisements for firms connected to the home construction industry.
Date: 1924~
Object Type: Book

Title: Pursuit of Truth: From Kansas City's Libraries, Alvin Sykes Plotted and Unlikely Course to Civil Rights History
Description: Booklet published by the Kansas City Public Library summarizing the community, civil rights, and legal activism of Alvin Sykes. The text covers Sykes' early life and passion for self-education through public libraries. His involvement in the 1980 murder case of jazz musician Steve Harvey at the Liberty Memorial is highlighted. Sykes' pursuit of a federal civil rights violation case against Harvey's accused killer, Raymond Bledsoe, after he was declared not guilty by an all white jury in Jackson County court is covered. Sykes' civil rights and legal activism following Bledsoe's conviction in 1983, including his involvement with the reexamination of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, is also covered. The booklet contains an introduction by former Kansas City Public Library executive director R. Crosby Kemper III and concludes with a note from Sykes discussing his life's work.
Date: 2014
Object Type: Book

Title: The Country Club District: 1000 Acres Restricted
Description: Booklet published to promote the Country Club District neighborhoods by the J. C. Nichols Company. Images of landscaping, streets and residences are included. Property descriptions for residents are described.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Book

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