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Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing two children fallen off a sled in the snow. Caption says: "Get Off!" Card is cut in shape of children on ground; top of child's leg is missing. Bottom of card: "Copyright by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. N.Y." Back of card lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Back also says: "N.B.--Beware of mushroom concerns." Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing dog sitting looking at baby in bassinet. Caption says: "On Guard." Card is cut in shape of dog and bassinet. Back of card has small image of "Grandmother" and lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing woman sitting holding a small dog and a baby with the dog's ear in her mouth. Caption says: "Confusion." Small inset picture shows old woman with a cup of tea and saucer. Caption above the inset: "Copyrighted 1884." Tiny caption under inset picture says: "'The Gt. Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co's celebrated teas and coffees have been my solace through life' -Grandmother." Back of card has small image of "Grandmother" with repeated caption. It lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo. (Address is slightly rubbed off.)
Date: 1884~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description: A brown paper shopping bag from The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Picture shows a train and two ships, all marked with "GAandPTC." The company's name is spelled out in the steam cloud coming from the train. A flying flag says: "The largest importers and retailers in the world. 110 branch stores in the U.S. Headquarters 35-37 Vesey St., N.Y." Four addresses are given for stores in Cincinnati. No Kansas City address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Biography of Fred Wolferman (1870-1955), Owner of Wolferman's Gourmet Grocery
Date: 2008
Object Type: Biography

Title: Brywood Update, Expansion Planned
Description: Tri-Land Properties, Inc., owners of the Brywood Shopping Center on East 63rd Street, "is asking for $8.6 million in tax incentives, including regular TIF, Super TIF and the establishment of a community improvement district." One of the major priorities for the shopping center is the renovation and expansion of the existing Price Chopper.
Date: 2008-04-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Corner Market Did Business on Ninth Street
Description: Postcard image and short article about Benedict L. Bredburg's Metropolitan Grocery. The store was located at 5000 E. Ninth St. in Kansas City, Missouri. The postcard dates from the early 1900s.
Date: 2008-12-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Mapping onto Community
Description: Article discusses the relationship between large-scale "top down" development, such as the entertainment district being planned by Cordish, and local grass roots development, such as the Crossroads District. In particular, the authors use the example of a large chain grocery store for downtown, v.s. Local Harvest, a failed local produce store. Developing downtown with all national chains can discourage local, community based efforts at development and cause Kansas City to lose its distinctive flavor.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Good Man
Description: Article profiles grocer Gus Fleming who operated Lynn's Market on the 800 block of Newton Street from the 1950s through the 1970s. The author and other Old Northeast residents reminisce about Gus and their childhood years shopping at the neighborhood market.
Date: 2008-04-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Early Grocery Stores & Drug Stores
Description: Article on the evolution of grocery stores and drug stores in Wyandotte County. Lists of ethnic grocery stores, including Scandinavian, German, Polish, Croatian, and Russian, are included. The article also contains a brief overview of drug stores and their importance within the community.
Date: 2015
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Leon's Thriftway Celebrating 40 Years of Service
Description: Article profiles Leon's Thriftway, located at 39th and Kensington, and reported to be "the nation's oldest black-owned and operated grocery store." The owner, Leon Stapleton, managed a Safeway store at 12th and Brooklyn before opening his own business in 1968. In 2008 the store celebrated its fortieth-year anniversary.
Date: 2008-06-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Argentine Library and Supermarket Proceeding
Description: Article discusses the new Metropolitan Avenue Redevelopment District that stretches west from the 18th Street Expressway to S. 24th Street and north from Metropolitan Avenue to the railroad tracks. A grocery store and new public library will be built within this new district which is eligible for tax increment financing (TIF). The Argentine Library at 2800 Metropolitan Avenue is currently housed in the historic 94-year-old Carnegie building which is now "impractical and inadequate." The new library building was conditionally approved by the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools-Unified School District 500 "which governs the city's public libraries." Of the estimated $6 million needed, the community must raise $2 million of that amount. "The new 21,000-square-foot, one-story library will be fully accessible to all patrons," and will be located on Strong Avenue between 31st and 32nd streets.
Date: 2011-12-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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