Search results

Pages

About Town: Ex-Senator to Celebrate Birthday
Title
About Town: Ex-Senator to Celebrate Birthday
Description
Biographical description of Harry Darby, Jr., "retired U. S. senator and industrialist who built the Darby Corp[oration]." He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1895 and celebrated his 90th birthday known as "the person most influential in persuading Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president."
Date
1985-01-22
Object Type
Newspaper Article
Darby Liquidation Stirs Nostalgia
Title
Darby Liquidation Stirs Nostalgia
Description
Photos and article about the auctioning off of properties of the Darby Corporation plant in Kansas City, Kansas, following the death in 1987 of founder and former Kansas senator Harry Darby, at the age of 91. Description of the company's history in brief, with a peak in the mid-1970s with metal railroad cars for the Kansas City Power & Light Company, building ships during World War II, and later manufacturing "items ranging from steel tanks to computer shelving," planned for razing in 1987.
Date
1987-03-19
Object Type
Newspaper Article
People of the Week: Tradition or No, Freshmen Darby, Dworshak, Lehman, Benton Are Expected to Be Vocal and Influential in Senate Roles
Title
People of the Week: Tradition or No, Freshmen Darby, Dworshak, Lehman, Benton Are Expected to Be Vocal and Influential in Senate Roles
Description
Article about Kansas Senator Harry Darby and other national senators, with photo and description of his "unusual career" as "a wealthy steel manufacturer," owner at the age of 54 of the Darby Corporation, "a large Kansas City, Kans., steel-fabricating business that he organized in 1920 after serving an apprenticeship in a family-woned boiler factory," becoming national senator in 1948.
Date
1949-12-23
Object Type
Magazine Article
Harry S Truman with Senator Harry Darby
Title
Harry S Truman with Senator Harry Darby
Description
Former President Harry S. Truman sits with Kansas Senator Harry Darby and a number of unidentified men.
Date
1964-08-26
Object Type
Negative
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Title
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Description
Photo and bio of Harry Darby (1895-1987), a national senator from Kansas and native of Kansas City, Kansas, starting out "in 1911 as a helper, mechanic, boilermaker, and structural iron worker with the Missouri Boiler Works Co." and becoming president of the company whose name he changed to the Darby Corporation. During World War II he manufactured numerous ocean-going ships for the federal government, and in December, 1949 was appointed United States senator. He was also elected to the Hall of Fame of Great Westerners by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame through his activity with the American Royal and work toward the creation of the Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs, Kansas.
Date
1952
Object Type
Book
Harry Darby, Harry H. Woodring, and Frank Carlson
Title
Harry Darby, Harry H. Woodring, and Frank Carlson
Description
Senator Harry Darby (left), Hon. Harry H. Woodring (center), and Kansas Senator Frank Carlson (right) at unknown venue. No print image; negative and digital only.
Date
1972-08
Object Type
Negative
Harry S. Truman and Harry Darby
Title
Harry S. Truman and Harry Darby
Description
Senator Harry Darby (left), person in the center is unknown, and President Harry S. Truman (right) in unknown venue.
Date
1972-08
Object Type
Negative
Harry Darby and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Title
Harry Darby and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Description
Senator Harry Darby and Julie Nixon (center). The figure on the right has been identified as Joan Darby Edwards, Senator Darby's daughter. Written on the front of the image is: "For Senator Darby, with happy memories of our visit together. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, August 1972."
Date
1972-08
Object Type
Photograph
Union Representatives
Title
Union Representatives
Description
Group of Union representatives who attended the luncheon with Governor Docking of Kansas. Harry Darby is second from the right.
Date
1957
Object Type
Photograph
Harry Darby and American Royal Queen
Title
Harry Darby and American Royal Queen
Description
Unidentified queen with Harry Darby.
Object Type
Photograph
Darby Corporation
Title
Darby Corporation
Description
Postcard of a boat launch by the Darby Corporation, U.S. Navy Ship builders.
Object Type
Postcard
WDAF Kansas City Radio Station
Title
WDAF Kansas City Radio Station
Description
Employees of the radio station including Harry Darby (4th from the right) and Bill Leeds (right).
Date
1950~
Object Type
Photograph
South Central Business Association Luncheon
Title
South Central Business Association Luncheon
Description
Attendees at South Central Business Association luncheon honoring Governor Frank Carlson. Those standing from left to right include: Mrs. Clara Stover, Russell Stover, Harry Darby, Frank Carlson, President Cutting, Dr. G. Chales Gray, Irby J. Head, Representative Albert Reeves, Dr. Arthur B. Chalmers and Irl T. Oliver. N. Emerson Paton is shown seated.
Date
1947-09-16
Object Type
Photograph
Harry H. Woodring at Podium
Title
Harry H. Woodring at Podium
Description
The Hon. Harry H. Woodring (left) at podium with Harry Darby. Woodring spoke to the South Central Business Association on April 6, 1954.
Date
1954-04-06
Object Type
Photograph
Harry H. Woodring and Others
Title
Harry H. Woodring and Others
Description
The Hon. Harry H. Woodring (center), flanked by South Central Business Association President Junius B. Cofer (left) and Harry Darby. Woodring spoke to the SCBA on April 6, 1954.
Date
1954-04-06
Object Type
Photograph
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Title
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Description
Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel of Kansas and Harry Darby standing to the right at podium at a special South Central Business Association luncheon honoring the governor.
Date
1946-09-24
Object Type
Photograph
Swing's Man of the Month: Harry Darby--"The Hardest Trying"
Title
Swing's Man of the Month: Harry Darby--"The Hardest Trying"
Description
Photo and biographical article about Harry Darby, president of the American Royal and a national senator from Kansas. Native of Kansas serving in World War I and returning afterwards to Kansas City as a mechanic for the Missouri Boiler Works before buying the company in 1923 and renaming it the Harry Darby Corporation.
Date
1946-10
Object Type
Magazine Article
An Ike Visit Here: G. O. P. Nominee for President Will Be in Kansas City, Kansas, August 21
Title
An Ike Visit Here: G. O. P. Nominee for President Will Be in Kansas City, Kansas, August 21
Description
Notice about the 1952 visit to Kansas City, Kansas, by Dwight Eisenhower, "Republican nominee for President," in a conference planned "by Harry Darby, Republican national committeeman for Kansas, a former United States senator, and one of the original sponsors of the Eisenhower for President boom."
Date
1952-08-13
Object Type
Newspaper Article
Kansas City in Caricature
Title
Kansas City in Caricature
Description
Caricature of Harry Darby of the Missouri Boiler Works.
Date
1912
Object Type
Book
Leaders in Our Town
Title
Leaders in Our Town
Description
Photo and bio of C. Harry Darby, chairman of the Darby Corporation, established in 1940 with the merging of the Kaw Steel Construction Plant and Darby's Missouri Boiler Works Company. Description of his life and career. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1895, starting in the boilermaker trade as his father's apprentice.
Date
1952
Object Type
Book

Pages