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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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Description
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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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Object Type
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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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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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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 page 8, about the effusive spending of city funds on the Kansas City Zoo, comparing the luxurious living conditions of a tiger there to many thousands of Kansas Citians with very poor housing and utilities, etc., including illustrative photos. Other featured articles include: “Arson Aylor” (p. 2), about the conviction of Ben Aylor, former owner of the burned-down Rochambeau Hotel in Kansas City, for arson in its destruction by fire in 1932; “Luscious Prize—‘Compromise’” (p. 2), about the meeting of R. Emmet O'Malley, "Missouri insurance commissioner," with Tom Pendergast in New York regarding placement of "millions of dollars of Missouri insurance buyers' funds into the hands of politicians--Pendergast politicians, of course"; and “Dikes, They Said” (p. 2), about a project to sandbag the banks of the Kaw River, alleged by engineers to be ineffective against funding and simply away to funnel money to machine-allied companies; 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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1935-06-14
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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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 page 8, about the “lug,” “an involuntary or forced contribution to something a luckless employee isn’t nearly as interested in” as his and his family’s own welfare. Other featured articles include “T. J. and W. T.” (page 2), about patching up of differences between William Kemper, Sr. ("Democratic national committeeman for Missouri") and Tom Pendergast (Democratic No. 1 man in Missouri"), "concerning an outgrowth of the Lazia case here"; “May We Present Mrs. A. Ross Hill” (p. 5), a photo and profile of Vassie Hill, or Mrs. A. Ross Hill, "Missouri chairman of the National Women's Committee for Mobilization for Human Need," describing her life and career as the daughter of J. Crawford James and former wife of Hugh Ward, starting out "in charge of enlisting women for foreign work in the Red Cross" during World War I and "organizing the Jefferson Democratic Club, an independent organization of women" in 1923; 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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1935-07-12
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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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Title
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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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Title
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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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Title
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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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Title
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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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