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Title: Amelia Earhart
Description: Aviator Amelia Earhart casually sitting in a chair, her knees doubled up beneath her, at the Hotel Baltimore. Earhart was in Kansas City to give a lecture at the Grand Avenue Temple on “Flying for Fun.” The event was sponsored by the Women’s City Club.
Date: 1933-10-17
Object Type: Negative

Title: Jean Harlow
Description: Jean Harlow standing outside Union Station. Harlow was in Kansas City to promote her new picture Hell's Angels.
Date: 1930-11
Object Type: Negative

Title: Charles Gargotta Being Escorted by Officers
Description: Mobster Charles Gargotta (center) being escorted to his arraignment to face charges of murdering bootlegger Ferris Anthon and the attempted murder of Sheriff Thomas Bash on August 12, 1933. He is being escorted by Chief Deputy William Schickhardt (left) and Deputy Al Finkelstine.
Date: 1933-08-16
Object Type: Negative

Title: Unidentified Speaker
Description: Unidentified man holding a script and standing behind a podium. One of the microphones has a KMBC Radio logo.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt with microphone in hand and surrounded by crowd. May be at dedication of Municipal Auditorium, October 13, 1936.
Date: 1936-10-13
Object Type: Negative

Title: Knute Rockne Outside Union Station
Description: Knute Rockne, second from left, and other unidentified men outside Union Station. Believed to be last photograph taken of Rockne before the plane crash in Kansas which killed him on March 31, 1931.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bennett Bridge Game Murder Trial, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hofman
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Hofman, friends who were playing bridge with the Bennetts when Mrs. Bennett shot and killed her husband John G. Bennett on September 29, 1929, in a quarrel over the bridge game. Mrs. Bennett was acquitted. Photo appeared in the "Kansas City Journal-Post," Thursday, February 26, 1931.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Pigs Moving into Pen
Description: Looking down at unidentified man guiding pigs through a stall.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Aerial View 11th and Baltimore
Description: Aerial view looking southwest from 11th Street and Baltimore Avenue. Shows Kansas City Club under construction and Convention Hall.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Negative

Title: Richard E. Byrd
Description: Commander Richard E. Byrd in uniform posed outside Union Station. Byrd was in Kansas City in April of 1936.
Date: 1936-04
Object Type: Negative

Title: Scene of Triple Killing
Description: Looking west toward Troost Avenue from the southeast corner of Armour Boulevard and Forest Avenue. The scene is part of investigation that took place following the August 12, 1933, murder of bootlegger Ferris Anthon by mobster Charles (Mad Dog) Gargotta and others. Sheriff Tom Bash killed to gangsters during the exchange.
Date: 1933-08-12
Object Type: Negative

Title: Scene of Triple Killing
Description: View looking northwest from the southeast corner of Armour Boulevard and Forest Avenue. The scene is part of investigation that took place following the August 12, 1933, murder of bootlegger Ferris Anthon by mobster Charles (Mad Dog) Gargotta and others. Sheriff Tom Bash killed to gangsters during the exchange.
Date: 1933-08-12
Object Type: Negative

Title: Unidentified Building and Fountain
Description: Exterior partial view of a institutional-type building, possibly a school or hospital, and a fountain. Another building with smokestacks is in the background.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bennett Bridge Game Murder Trial, Unidentified Participant
Description: Portrait of an unidentified participant in the murder trial of Myrtle Bennett; possibly a witness. The woman is seated and wearing a fur coat and hat.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Men in Office Room
Description: Five men in suits lounging in an office room. There is a Alpha Floral Co. calendar on the wall showing January of 1929.
Date: 1929
Object Type: Negative

Title: Boys with Sailboats
Description: Two boys at the edge of a stream or pond playing with toy sailboats.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Llamas
Description: Two llamas in fenced area. Print of glass negative shows damage.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Fire Damage
Description: Interior room of an unidentified saloon or restaurant which has been heavily damaged by fire.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Graf Zeppelin over the Liberty Memorial
Description: View of spectators watching the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin pass over the north side of the Liberty Memorial on the morning of Aug. 28th, 1929. The airship was traveling from Los Angeles, California, to Lakehurst, New Jersey, as part of a round-the-world flight.
Date: 1929-08-28
Object Type: Negative

Title: Political Rally for Alfred E. Smith and Joe Robinson
Description: Daytime rally for Alfred E. Smith and Joe Robinson during 1928 presidential campaign, outside entrance to Union Station. One sign reads "Jackson Co. Democratic Club".
Date: 1928
Object Type: Negative

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