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Title: Southwestern Milling Company
Description: Promotional postcard for the Southwestern Milling Company.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: General Photograph Collection
Description: This collection of over 40 boxes and 25 linear feet is an on-going, artificial collection of photographs covering a wide range of years and including various different photographers. The bulk of the collection is composed of the Brookings Montgomery photographs which were purchased by the Kansas City Public Library from the Montgomery estate in the 1960s. This collection contains a large number of photographs by the Photo View Company of Kansas City which Mr. Montgomery had acquired. Most of the prints in this collection have negatives and are black and white and 8"x10" in size. The collection has been arranged alphabetically by subject. The collection is strong in Kansas City's structural images as its buildings, bridges, homes, institutions, streets, statues and other landmarks. Also preserved are images of natural events as floods, fires and tornado damage. Social aspects are captured in scenes of parades, clubs, schools, parks, as well as some portraits of prominent citizens and groups. There are also a number of automobile photographs ranging in time from ca1900-1960. The strength of the collection lies in its focus on Kansas City and the broad range of years it covers. This collection has been digitized and is available for viewing on this Local History site. Photographers/studios include Brookings Montgomery, Dory DeAngelo, Anderson Photo Company, Photographic & View Company (PhotoView), and others. Current arrangement processed: 1990-92.
Date: 1870~/
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: St. George's Hospital
Description: Full photograph of St. George's Contagious Disease Hospital which was built on a barge in 1889. The boat was hauled to the shore near the Monarch Vinegar Works to have the bottom caulked. An island in the Missouri River used for the quarantine and treatment of smallpox patients known as "Pest House Island" had been destroyed by flooding in 1887, and residents subsequently protested the construction of an inland facility on Raytown Road. The "floating pest house" pictured was used as a replacement. Man on the end at the left of the barge is Keeper, James McLain. Others identified in the photograph are Charles Miller, Albert, Charles Brewer, and W.S. White.
Date: 1889-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC92 Dory DeAngelo Papers Finding Aid
Description: Dory DeAngelo is a local author, historian, researcher, and longtime resident of Kansas City's Old Northeast neighborhood. She has written numerous books and articles about Kansas City history and has been actively involved in local theater, both as a performer and director. This collection was donated by DeAngelo. It consists of primarily newspaper articles - written by DeAngelo - covering a variety of topics related to Kansas City history, especially the Northeast community, local theater and prominent Kansas City people and businesses. Theater programs, photographs, and miscellaneous biographical materials are also included in the collection.
Date: 1950~/2000~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC26 Mary Handly Linton Papers and Slide Collection Finding Aid
Description: Mary Handly Linton was a local poet and author of books of verse. The collection contains both her personal papers and slide collection of approximately 3800 slides. Included with the personal papers are family wills, marriage certificates, death and divorce records, clippings, correspondence, photographs, as well as a rough draft of her book "On Wings of the Soul." The slides include travel slides and presentations, a general slide notebook, as well as slides of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Two of her poetry books are available in Special Collections (MVSC 091.98 L76O; MVSC 811 L761R).
Date: 1811/1962
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC61 Charles P. Deatherage Book Manuscripts Finding Aid
Description: Mr. Deatherage founded the Deatherage Lumber Company in Kansas City in 1878. After retiring in 1919, he began a career as a historian, publishing his first volume of Kansas City history in 1928. Volumes two and three were never published. Mr. Deatherage died in 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri.The collection includes the handwritten manuscript of the final two volumes of the projected three-volume history of Kansas City, Missouri. Volume one was published in 1928 and titled: "Early History of Greater Kansas City Missouri and Kansas; The Prophetic City At the Mouth of the Kaw." The manuscript includes all of volume two, and a small portion of volume three. Volume two, entitled "Municipal History of Greater Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas," covering 1853-1928, is made up of 30 chapters. Subjects include city government, churches, hospitals, fraternal organizations, transportation, schools, cultural activities, parks and boulevards, and disasters. Volume three is unchaptered and includes information on the lumber trade, architects, expositions and fairs, the insurance business, livestock trade, and bridges. It was intended to be an industrial history of Kansas City, covering the same time period as volume two.
Date: 1930~/1939~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC7 Missouri Valley Historical Society Records Finding Aid
Description: The Missouri Valley Historical Society (1913-1940) was the successor to the Kansas City Historical Society (1906-1913) and the Early Settler's Society and Historical Association (1896-1906). All these organizations focused on the history of the Kansas City area and the region in general. The Society was especially active during the presidency of John Barber White (1913-1923).The collection consists of official records, correspondence, and business records of the organization. Historical material may be found in vertical files, manuscripts, scrapbooks, etc. The collection also includes the papers of the Gold Star League which contains photographs, correspondence, and biographical sheets on soldiers of World War I from the Kansas City area.
Date: 1830/1940
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Electric Park (2nd), Lake
Description: Postcard of the lake in the second Electric Park.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Electric Park (2nd), Tower and Bandstand
Description: Postcard of the tower and bandstand at night at the second Electric Park.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Kansas City Stockyards
Description: Postcard of the Kansas City Stockyards in the West Bottoms.
Date: 1899
Object Type: Postcard

Title: SC208 S. J. Ray Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains original artwork and other materials relating to S. J. Ray, who worked as editorial cartoonist for The Kansas City Star from 1931 to 1963. Ray’s cartoons depict a wide array of historical figures and events, including New Deal politics, World War II, and the Cold War.
Date: 1921/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC225 Kansas City Star Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Kansas City Star newspaper company was founded in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel Morss. Nelson and his family went on to retain ownership of the company until their deaths in 1926 when ownership was bought by employees of the newspaper. Local stockholders owned the newspaper until 1977 when it was sold to corporate ownership. This collection, made up of a portion of the company’s records, documents the history of the newspaper and its founding family.
Date: 1829/2007
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC58 Mrs. Sam Ray Postcard Collection Finding Aid
Description: Mildred Kittell Ray was born in Halstead, Kansas, on September 22, 1895. An avid collector of postcards (buttons, too), Mrs. Ray, at the age of 72, initiated a column in the Kansas City Times and Kansas City Star entitled "A Postcard from Old Kansas City." The columns ran for 23 years. They proved to be extremely popular with the reading public, and two selected sets of articles were collected and published in book form; the first volume won a national design award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. The collection consists of over 16,000 postcards and materials associated with Mrs. Ray's writing career. Subjects in the postcards include Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas, the other states of the US, a large number of foreign countries, an assortment of different topics (humor, holidays, etc.), and card format (wood, leather, copper, etc.). Items related to Mrs. Ray's career as a writer include: correspondence; research materials such as newspaper clippings and handwritten notes; draft, manuscript, and published versions of early "pre-postcard" historical articles; postcard articles that were rejected by the publisher; and the texts of lectures and presentations given by Mrs. Ray. Graphic materials make up another part of the collection, with items like advertising envelopes, ephemera from Emery, Bird, Thayer, and a number of photographs. An audiotape of a speech given by Dick Ray (Mrs. Ray's son), on February 13, 1998, at the official debut of the Library's online version of the newspaper column is included in the collection.
Date: 1890/1998
Object Type: Finding Aid

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: SC20 Guadalupe Center Collection Finding Aid
Description: Established in 1919, the Guadalupe Center originally served as a settlement house and gathering place for the growing community of Mexican immigrants residing on the West Side of Kansas City. The center offered a variety of programs, including medical clinics, classes, music and dance groups, sports teams, and social clubs. The Guadalupe Center Collection contains scrapbooks, photographs, programs, histories, and records that document an early period of the organization’s activities.
Date: 1918/1977
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Future: The Newsweekly for Today
Description: Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, discussing aspects of democracy and good government, and suggesting problems and solutions for clean elections. Other featured articles include: "Health and Politics" (pp. 2 & 3), a report on the recommendations of the 'Health and Hospital Survey' of 1930 for Kansas City, with various information about health care deficiencies and statistics, including "a wing for Negroes" left uncompleted "at the tuberculosis hospital at Leeds" and a death rate of Kansas City being higher (12.25) than New York City (10.23); "FERA's Education for All Ages"(p. 2) about an adult education program with subjects including bookkeeping and public speaking, and with young mothers and students still learning English among its students; "Glenn Did Not Choose to Run" (p. 2), about Glenn Cunningham, a University of Kansas track star and Olympic athlete, meeting a group of men leaving Union Station for Civilian Conservation Corps jobs; "Piecemeal Changes" (p. 3), about state management of federal relief funds and a potential consolidation of social welfare and penal boards; "Within the Beautiful State House" (pp. 3 & 4), about the new speaker of the state house and committee nominations and Governor Guy Park’s and Pendergast’s influence in the decision, including a portrait sketch of Governor Parks; "To You Who Would Make Changes" (p. 4), encouraging readers to work against the Pendergast machine rather than just complain about it; “20,000 Men and Women” (p. 4), discussing the large youth vote “not bound to either of the old political parties”; and "May We Present Edwin Terry Brigham" (p. 5), a photograph and biographical article about the superintendent of the Helping Hand Institute; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on sports, fashion, finance, cooking, music, and national and international news.
Date: 1935-01-18
Object Type: Newspaper

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 2]
Description: Volume two of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

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