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Title
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Jack Henry: 75 Years as Kansas City's Outfitters to Gentlemen
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Description
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Book details the history of Jack Henry and the Jack Henry Clothing Store with its slogan "Outfitters to Gentlemen." According to the book, "In 1931 Jack Henry opened a very small shop--offering only hats and furnishings--on the north side of the Plaza's 47th Street." The success of the business and later expansion is noted. Jack Henry was born and grew up in Liberty, Missouri. Sections of the book include: The Arvanitakis family; Memories; Confessions from Rick Hughey; Jack Henry today.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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George Laurence Mailliard, Sr. Obituary
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Description
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George L. Mailliard, Sr., known as Mr. M., died on December 9, 2008. He owned Mailliard's Incorporated, a men and boys clothing store which began in the Prairie Village Shopping Center in 1954. Eventually there were several stores located in the Kansas City area. Mr. Mailliard was born on October 31, 1915. He leaves his second wife Viva and four children. Includes his picture.
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Date
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2008-12-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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G. A. Houghton & Co.
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Description
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Description of business at the corner of 4th and Main streets carrying American clothing. His business "should be understood that this is the only American CLothing House in the city."
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Date
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1879
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Burton Oscar Lisman
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Description
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Obituary for Burton O. Lisman who died May 3, 2007 at age 87. He was born in Cincinnati on October 15, 1919. "Mr. Lisman started working at Kaplan's Fabrics, which led to a career in ladies fashions and ready-to-war stores. In 1951 he opened 'Lisman's,' his first in a chain of seven women's clothing stores located in every major shopping center in the Kansas City metro area." Lisman later began All Pro Advertising and was an original founder of the Red Coaters and Chiefs Club. In 2006 he received the Life Time Achievement Award from Lamar Hunt and the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Date
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2007-05-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Hammerslough & Co.
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Description
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Advertisement of Hammerslough clothing company. Below portrait drawing of Hammerslough is, "This is not General grant, but it is the Famous Kansas City Clotheir, Hammerslough. Spring Orders filled from all over the American Continent."
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Date
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1882-03-20
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Country Club Plaza
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Description
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Street level view of the Cricket West clothing store located at 308 W. 47th Street at the northwest corner of 47th Street and Wornall Road in the Country Club Plaza. Also in view is the Neptune Fountain purchased in 1952 by the J. C. Nichols Company.
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Date
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1954
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1909-1938, Page p019
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from W. 7th Street south to W. 9th Street and from Bank Street east to May Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1909/1938
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Golden Eagle
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Description
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Advertising card for Golden Eagle Clothing House showing a collection of shells. Front of card says: "Call and buy your Men's and Boys' Clothing of the Golden Eagle." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 512 and 514 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Golden Eagle Clothing House
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Description
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Advertising card for Golden Eagle Clothing House showing house in winter scene and a pink rose. Card is embossed. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 512 and 514 Main St., Kansas City, MO.."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Golden Eagle Clothing House, The
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Description
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Advertising card for Golden Eagle Clothing House showing young Asian boy holding a fan. Card is cut in shape of boy. Front says: "Retails Goods at Wholesale Prices." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 514 and 516 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 33 with Dog and Unrelated Cards
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. Two cards from a series: In the first, a man stands on two stones in a river offering to help a woman on the bank into a boat. In the second, the same woman and man fall into the water. Both cards say: "Wade and Cumming Clothing, Cor 8th Av. and 23d St., Grand Opera House." Lower right corner says: "Chas. Shields Sons, 20 and 22 Gold St. N.Y."2. Two roosters fighting while a hen watches. Caption says: "All on account of Mary Jane." Card says: "A. L. Foster and Co., The New England Combination Clothiers.." .45 to 49 Asylum Street, Hartford, Conn."3. A man helping a woman into a boat. Card says: "Cooked Corned Beef."4. A large card cut into the shape of a white dog. Tag around its neck says: "For Bargains go to A. D. Sharpe, No. 30 Main St., Jamestown, N. Y."5. A woman with lacy dress and braided hair.6. A striped cat with fur up and claws out. Card says: "2. Ha! Tis He, The Maltese, Me Rival." Lower left corner says: "Copyright by A. B. Seeley, 1881."7. A young man shaking hands with an older man as two women look on. Card says: "Welcome Soap. Curtis Davis and Co. Boston, Mass."8. An old clown jumping near a bar of soap on the floor labeled "Dobbins Electric Soap." Caption says: "'The lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Sadler, The Clothier, Hatter and Haberdasher
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Description
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Advertising card for Sadler, the Clothier, Hatter and Haberdasher showing nine children sitting in and around a broken egg. Card is embossed. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 7th and Main Streets, Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Missouri's 'Good' Penney
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about James Cash Penney, or J. C. Penney (1875-1971), founder of the J. C. Penney national clothing store chain and native of (near) Hamilton, Missouri. Description of his life and career as a farmer, livestock breeder, and clothing store owner learning his business in Hamilton before starting his own stores in Wyoming and opening the 500th store back in Hamilton.
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Date
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1976-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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'Treasure Hunt' Coming to End
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Description
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Article discusses the closing of the Junior League Resale Boutique. For more than 75 years the shop provided clothes for needy families. Article gives more information about other programs run by the Junior League. One of their new projects is "a partnership with University Academy, a charter school that will allow the Junior League to begin a five-year emphasis on childhood fitness, nutrition and obesity prevention."
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Date
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2010-09-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Downtown Storefront: Slabotsky & Son Fine Menswear
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Description
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Slabotsky & Son, a men's clothing store, has stood in its current location at 1102 Grand since 1935. Bruce Jerwick purchased the store from Gordon Slabotsky, whose father founded it in 1914.
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Date
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2007-12-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Blacks in Kansas City, Part III--Business and Industry
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Description
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Third in a series of four articles about the history of African Americans in Kansas City. It provides an overview of black business and industry, from the period before emancipation in 1865 to the present (1986). Starting in the late 1800s, African Americans were mostly "limited to household labor and unskilled jobs," but by 1913 "were securing jobs as barbers, cooks, railroad workers, and waitresses" in Kansas City. The growth of job opportunities and black-owned businesses and business organizations in the 20th century are then discussed, with many examples such as Alpha Minor Smith, Reuben Street, Reverend James Wesley Hurse, T.B. Watkins, Felix Payne ("investment broker and bondsman"), Guy Davis ("Public Accountant and Auditor"), J.A. Wilson ("Kansas City's pioneer negro jeweler"), John Burns ("manager and former police officer"), Eureka Casket and Coffin Company, the Kansas City Urban League, the Kansas City Council of Employees, the Kansas City Nebro Directory, and Associated Negro Grocers."In 1870, Mrs. Alpha Minor Smith opened a dressmaking and notions shop in Kansas City. The Alpha Minor Smith Dress Shop was the first shop in the city to carry ready-to-wear clothing for ladies. Another successful businessman of the black community was Reuben S. Street. Mr. Street, owner of Street Enterprises, was one of K.C.'s leading businessmen. Street's Blue Room was known throughout the country as a popular meeting place."
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Date
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1986-02-21
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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A Legacy of Service in Kansas City
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Description
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Michael's Fine Clothes for Men has been in business for over 100 years in the Kansas City area. Opened by Michael Novorr in 1905, the business has thrived at 1830 Main Street and has now become a vital piece of real estate in the Crossroads Art District.
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Date
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2007-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Louis Hammerslough
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Description
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Portrait and biographical article about Louis Hammerslough (1835-1903), "the pioneer clothing merchant" in Kansas City, arriving here in 1858 from his native Germany, establishing his clothing store at "the southwest corner of 5th and Main" Streets, "called the Hammerslough Building, for many years a landmark in Kansas City," and a later store at 9th and Main Street, with the family residence "on Central Street near 16th."
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Date
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1990
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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