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Kansas City Mayors
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Description
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File includes a welcome scroll featuring the seal of Kansas City made out and given to Mr. Walter Rosner of New York City, signed by Mayor Bryce B. Smith, and dated March 19, 1935. A sketch of the Liberty Memorial is at the top of the scroll.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Kansas City and Its One Hundred Foremost Men
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Photo and bio of Bryce Smith, "President of the Consumers Bread Company." Born in Indianapolis in 1878 and raised in Kansas City before taking over his father's bakery at 18th and Cherry Streets.
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Date
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1925
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Book
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1928 Republican National Convention
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Description
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Interior view of dedication of officers and council; shows Bryce Smith and Henry McElroy.
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Date
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1928
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Prominent Kansas Citians
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Description
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Composite view; left to right: H.Roe Bartle, John B. Gage, Johnston Lykins, Bryce Smith.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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1928 Republican National Convention
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Description
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Interior view of dedication of officers and council; shows Bryce Smith and Henry McElroy.
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Date
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1928
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Object Type
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Photograph
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1928 Republican National Convention
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Interior view of dedication of officers and council; shows Bryce Smith and Henry McElroy.
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Date
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1928
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Ben Bernie, Frank Cromwell, Bryce Smith
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Description
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Ben Bernie, radio star and musician, with Frank Cromwell and Mayor Bryce Smith and other unidentified men at unidentified location with a racing form in hand.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Board of Directors, Officers, and Superintendent, The School District of Kansas City, Mo.
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Description
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"As organized April 5, 1928." Composite of portrait photographs of members of the Kansas City Board of Education, officers, and superintendent. Allendoerger, C. W., Treasurer; Baird, Charles; Fuller, Carolyn Farwell; Jackson, J. B., Secretary; Melcher, George, Superintendent; Meservey, Edwin C., President; Moore, Annette; Smith, Bryce B., Vice President; Smith, J. Roy.
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Date
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1928-04
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Object Type
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Photograph
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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 an article, continued on pages 3 and 8, about the selling of merchandise stolen from Kansas merchants in Kansas City pawn shops, and description of the subsequent closing of small shops not tied to the Pendergast machine and sentencing of a black man to 40 years in jail in lieu of convicting the proprietor of a guilty shop at 9th and Main Streets, and other issues. Other featured articles include: “Fame!” (p. 2) is a reprint of a New York Herald-Tribune article about Future and its anti-machine stance; “Move Over, Girls, the Machine’s Moving In” (p. 3), a column about the forced relocation of prostitutes from their usual place between 12th, Cherry, Locust, and 13th Streets to "only two blocks over toward Troost" by the Pendergast machine, mainly due to their poor image presented in front of the new Jackson County Courthouse; “Ready-Mixed Whiskey” (p. 3), a discussion on the supposed price-fixing of alcohol in Kansas City and its relation to the ownership of T. J. Pendergast Wholesale Liquor Company at 2101 Central Street, "the largest distributor of liquor in Kansas City," by Tom Pendergast, "Kansas City political boss." Pendergast also the owner of the Ready Mixed Concrete company; and “May We Present Belle Edwards” (p. 5), photo and biographical article about Belle Edwards, a 72-year-old black woman, "good citizen," and widow of "Edwards, a colored member of the police force" of Kansas City, and who was born in Paris, Missouri, in 1863 into slavery and coming to Kansas City "to work in the laundry connected with the old Blossom House," with residence at 24th and Woodland Avenues; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-03-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Bryce Smith
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Description
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Photo and bio of Bryce Smith (1878-1962), mayor of Kansas City from 1930 to 1938. Native of Indianapolis raised in Kansas City and joining his father's Smith Bakery before organizing his own Smith Great West Baking Company in 1923 and in 1926 the General Baking Corporation with a farm on Red Bridge Road near the farm of Harry Truman.
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Date
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1968
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.81
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Description
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Page 81 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A portrait of Mayor Bryce Smith is attached to the page. The photograph is autographed: To my good friends the Scouts of Troop 177 - Bryce B. Smith.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.110
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Description
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Page 110 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. Clippings related to the appointment of Lear B. Reed as Kansas City police chief are attached to the page.
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Date
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1939-07-11
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.109
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Description
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Page 109 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A clipping related to the additions of Edgar Shook, Russell F. Greiner, George Fiske, and Milton B. Schweiger to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners is attached to the page.
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Date
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1939-07
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.107
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Description
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Page 107 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. Clippings related to the additions of Edgar Shook, Russell F. Greiner, George Fiske, and Milton B. Schweiger to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners are attached to the page.
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Date
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1939-07
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.52
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Description
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Page 52 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A snapshot of Missouri Governor Lloyd Stark, a child identified as Pop Eye, and Mayor Bryce Smith is attached to the page.
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Date
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1937~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.65
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Description
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Page 65 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A portrait of Mayor Bryce Smith is attached to the page.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.125
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Description
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Page 125 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A clipping with images of City Manager Henry F. McElroy, Mayor Bryce B. Smith, Chief Robert J. Coffey, Police Director Otto P. Higgins, Thomas J. Higgins, John J. Regan, John L. Ghent, Michael J. Kennedy, Thomas J. Sullivan, Henry W. Johnson, and Hugh M. Dougherty is attached to the page.
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Date
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1938
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.53
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Description
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Page 53 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A snapshot of Otto P. Higgins, Henry Johnson, Mayor Bryce Smith, Francis O'Connor, and Lee Sager is attached to the page.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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