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Title: Union Station
Description: Photos and information on Union Station in midtown Kansas City.
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Title: Union Depot
Description: File contains primarily pictures of Union Depot which include photos and sketches.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Time Capsules
Description: Information about the time capsule from 1901 Kansas City opened and presented in 2001 at Union Station and the one encapsulated in 2001 for opening in 2101.
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Title: Science City
Description: File contains brochures and articles about Science City located in Union Station and part of the Kansas City Museum.
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Title: Kansas City Fire Department
Description: Included in this file is a one page roster of names that represents the men of the Kansas City (Mo.) Fire Department who were founding members of Local Union No. 42 of the International Association of Fire Fighters that was organized in Washington D.C. on February 28, 1918. Information given includes, beside their names, their date of initiation, rank, station, company, and home address. All the fire stations are also listed from No. 1 to No. 29 as well as the names of the delegates to the convention in 1918 and the first officers of Local No. 42.
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Title: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd
Description: Included in the file is a section from an unnamed magazine or book relating the story of Pretty Boy Floyd's supposed role in the Kansas City Massacre at the Union Station in 1933, also called the Union Station Massacre. Photos, illustrations, and description of his killing after suspected involvement and placing of his body in the Kansas City morgue.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: H & R Block
Description: Information on the H & R Block accounting company, founded in Kansas City in 1955 by brothers Henry Bloch and Richard Bloch, with photos. Information on the statue of Henry Bloch erected at Union Station in 2000.
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Title: John Lazia
Description: Information on John Lazia (1896-1934), called a "North Side political chieftain and power in the underworld" connected to the Union Station Massacre and "boss Tom Pendergast's lieutenant in the Kansas City Democratic organization."
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Title: BMA Building
Description: File containing information about the BMA Building at Union Station Plaza and at 31st and Southwest Trafficways, "from sea level. ..the tallest office structure here, its base level equivalent to perhaps the 18th or 20th floor of any downtown skyscraper."
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Emory J. Sweeney Residence
Description: Story of the Sweeney family's mansion and Emory Sweeney's early radio station, WHB, named supposedly as the acronym for "Who the Hell was the Boss." Description of Sweeney, raised in Kansas City and establishing "the Sweeney Aeronautics and Automobile school ["constructed in 1916 across from the Union Station at Pershing and Wyandotte"] and the radio broadcasting station known as WHB" or WHB-AM. Also description of the house "built and owned by Sweeney at 59th Street Terrace and Ward Parkway in 1919," sold in 1928 to lumberman Harry Dierks.
Date: 1905-06-05
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Title: Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railroad
Description: Photos, illustration, and information on the Hannibal & Saint Joseph Railroad (or the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad), "the first major railroad west of the Mississippi" River with the first railroad station in Kansas City's history built in 1870 (and burned down in 1875) at the site of the later Union Depot and crossing the Hannibal Bridge (completed in 1869).
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Commerce Bank
Description: File contains a brochure with a postcard illustration and history of the Bank of Commerce Building, built in 1907 at 10th and Walnut Streets by architect Jarvis Hunt, also the architect of the Kansas City Star Building and the Union Station. Information also about the history of the Bank of Commerce back to its origins in 1865 on the Levee in Kansas City, "at one time sharing a building at Fourth and Delaware with the Magnolia Saloon."
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Title: Satchel Paige
Description: Photos, illustrations, and information on Leroy Robert Paige, nicknamed Satchel Paige (1904-1982) for his early bag-carrying job at Union Station. Description of his life and career as a native of Alabama coming to Kansas City as a baseball pitcher around the late 1920s, residing at 2626 East 28th Street and joining the Kansas City Monarchs, then inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971. Also namesake of the Satchel Paige Stadium for amateur baseball at 51st and Swope Parkways in 1982, just before his death.
Object Type: Vertical File

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