AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/KC (ACT-UP/KC) was founded in September 1988 with the purpose of promoting AIDS awareness, treatments, and victim's rights through aggressive activism. ACT-UP/KC held numerous demonstrations and boycotts of local businesses and often worked with other gay and lesbian organizations. The group disbanded in 1994 due to dwindling membership. This collection consists of organizational records and correspondence, newsletters, bylaws, financial reports, hand-written notes, flyers, newspaper articles, audio-visual materials, and other organizational records.
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.
The collection includes 549 negatives and 318 original prints of images taken in the 1910s focusing on railroads and transportation and rural and urban life. The geographic scope is the Midwest, primarily Missouri and Kansas. The railroad photographs pertain to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad line. Scenes of both eastern Jackson County and Kansas City are common. The most striking features are the modes of transportation used at the time: the railroads, the newly evolving automobile, the street car, the interurban to Excelsior Springs, river boats, and an early airplane taking off in Overland Park.
Postcard showing the Fidelity Trust Company Building that once stood at the corner of 9th and Walnut streets. The building later served as the city's main post office, custom office, federal assay office and federal court.
A portion of Kansas City from E. 17th Street south to E. 19th Street Terrace and from Woodland Avenue east to Garfield Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Northeastern part of early Kansas City in the 18th and Vine District from E. 16th Street south to E. 18th Street and from Vine Street east to Michigan Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Postcard of Leaders at the Liberty Memorial Site Dedication, inscribed with Admiral Beatty, Gen. Pershing and presumably Marshal Foch, Baron Jacques, Gen. Diaz,
Photo (of Harry in a local parade) and articles about President Harry Truman's return to Kansas City in 1947 for political and personal reasons, being accused in involvement with the ongoing Pendergast machine and related election material theft investigated by the FBI, etc.