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Title
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Harzfeld's Building
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Description
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View facing southeast of the Harzfeld's Building at 11th and Main streets. The building appears to be in a state of renovation.
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Date
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1986-06
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Court of the Penguins
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Description
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View looking east of the Court of the Penguins on the Country Club Plaza (south side of 47th Street). Architect Ed Wimmer, of Linscott, Haylett, Wimmer & Wheat, received an award for his design of this block.
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Thomas Hart Benton Mural
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Description
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Postcard of the Achelous and Hercules mural by Thomas Hart Benton, once on display in the Harzfeld's Department Store in downtown Kansas City.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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12th and Main Streets
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Description
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Looking north along Main Street from 12th Street. On the right is the southwest corner of the Jones Store building. Harzfeld's Department Store is visible one block south, and signs for King Joy Lo Restaurant, Liggett's Drugs, B & G Hosiery, Newman Theater, and Berkson's line the west side of the street from south to north. The block on the west side of Main was razed in the early 1970s and now occupied by City Center Square.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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11th Street facing East
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Description
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View along 11th Street facing east from about Main Street. Downtown retail stores such as Woolf Brothers, Emery Bird Thayer, and Harzfeld's can be seen. The Southwestern Bell Telephone Building and Bryant Building are also in view.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Petticoat Lane West from Main
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Description
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View looking west along Petticoat Lane (11th Street) from its intersection with Main Street. Several pedestrians and cars can be seen. Signs for Virginia Dare, Woolf Brothers, and Harzfeld's are in view. The Emery, Bird and Thayer and Southwestern Bell Telephone buildings can be seen in the background.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Nichols Road and Pennsylvania Avenue
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Description
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Photograph of the east side of the intersection of Nichols Road and Pennsylvania Avenue in the late 1970s. Woolworth's five-and-dime store, on the northeast corner, and Harzfeld's department store, on the southeast corner, are pictured. Embassy movie theater, east of Woolworth's, is also pictured. The Woolworth's building was partially demolished for the construction of a Saks department store, which opened in 1982. Harzefeld's closed in 1984.
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Date
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1970~/1979~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Achelous and Hercules
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Description
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Unframed color print reproduction (44 in. x 14 in.) of Thomas Hart Benton's "Achelous and Hercules" mural. The original 24-foot mural was done in tempura and oil on canvas in 1947. It was purchased in the late 1940s for $15,000 by Harzfeld's Department Store at Petticoat Lane and Main (1101 Main) in Kansas City. After the store closed in 1984, the mural was donated to the Smithsonian. It depicts Achelous, the Greek god of rivers in the form of an angry bull during flood season fighting with Hercules who ultimately defeats him by tearing off one of his horns, which became nature's cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Hidden Traces of Benton At Work Emerge At Last
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Description
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An article discussing pencil sketches by Thomas Hart Benton that are up for auction by Dirk Soulis Auctions in Lone Jack, Missouri. Items to be auctioned are a dozen previously unknown preliminary sketches of the mural "Achelous and Hercules" that used to be displayed in the Harzfeld's department store from 1949 until the store closed in 1984. It is now displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Date
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2010-12-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Harzfeld's Department Store
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Description
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Full frontal and side view of Harzfeld's; located on the southeast corner of 11th and Main streets. Company's letterhead and logo are located on the back of photograph #49.
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Date
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1928~
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes a photo and article, continued on page 8, about the business of Peter Lapetina, "funeral director at 536 Campbell" Street, connected with an associate at General Hospital Number One in a racket of charging all of its deceased's family members for rights to their corpses. Other featured articles include: “Laws and the Hawg” (p. 2), about an ordinance prohibiting the sale of restaurant and hotel trash to be used as hog feed; “So as Not to Forget the Forgotten” (p. 3), about the Amalgamated Association targeting poor Kansas Citians to spend money on games of chance; and “May We Present Albert N. Doerschuk” (p. 5), a photo and article about Albert Doerschuk, operator of a small drug store "[o]n the southwest corner of Westport and Pennsylvania Avenues" and former owner of the Harris House Hotel, coming to Kansas City about 1890 from Ohio; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-04-26
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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New Book Chronicles Harzfeld's
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Description
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Profile of local authors Joe and Michele Boeckholt and their new book titled "Harzfeld's: A Brief History." The Boeckholts--both designers by trade--first became interested in Harzfeld's when they acquired the papers of the company's late graphic designer, Erasmus Beall. The department store was founded by Siegmund Harzfeld in 1891 as the Parisian Cloak Company and remained in business in Kansas City for nearly 100 years. Sidebar article includeds a Harzfeld's Department Store timeline (1891-1981).
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Date
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2009-11-27
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Reproduction of Thomas Hart Benton Mural Installed at Benton Home
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Description
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A one-half scale reproduction of the mural painted by Thomas Hart Benton for the Harzfeld's Department Store is ''now on permanent exhibit at the Benton home [3616 Belleview].'' The original mural was 24 feet by 7 feet and hung above the elevators in the store. It is now owned by the Smithsonian Institution.
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Date
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2005-10
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Object Type
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Newsletter Article
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Title
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Achelous and Hercules
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Description
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Photograph of the 1947 Thomas Hart Benton mural Achelous and Hercules. The painting was once on display in Harzfeld's department store, but is now in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. A reproduction of the painting made from this photograph is on display in Kirk Hall in the Central Library at 14 W. 10th Street.
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Interview with Inge Silverman
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Description
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Interview with Inge Silverman about her life and experience working at Harzfeld's department store. She recounts the story of her and her family's immigration from Germany in 1936, escaping antisemitism ahead of World War II, and joining other family; her mother being hired at Harzfeld's, and later working for Cricket West. She discusses going to work at Harzfeld's herself as a teenager, working in sales and modeling clothes for customers, owner Siegmund Harzfeld's reputation for generosity and kindness with his employees, and later working for City National Bank and Beth Shalom Synagogue. She describes moving to Dallas in 1960, returning to Kansas City in 1970, and finding the retail landscape different and less high end due to market changes; and discusses the change from full service sales model to customers shopping on their own, noting what modern stores still provide additional service. She also recalls her mother's friendship with painter Thomas Hart Benton and his wife Rita.
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Date
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2011-01-05
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Object Type
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Video Recording
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Title
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Harzfeld's Building
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Description
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View looking southwest of the Harzfeld's Building at 11th and Main streets. The building appears to be in a state of renovation.
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Date
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1986-06
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Harzfeld's Building
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Description
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View facing northeast of the Harzfeld's Building at 11th and Main streets. The building appears to be in a state of renovation.
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Date
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1986-06
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Object Type
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Photograph
