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Title
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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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Title
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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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Title
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Real Estate Tactics Unite Calumet Neighborhood
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Description
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Map and article about "the Calumet subdivision--a small enclave of homes northeast of Red Bridge and Blue River roads" in southeast Kansas City with conflict over selling homes to minority ethnic groups, including "20 black families in the subdivision plus some Chinese, East Indians, and Mexican-Americans." Subdivision adjacent to the farm of former mayor Bryce Smith.
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Date
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1977-09-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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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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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 Bond Advisory Committee of the Ten-Year Plan, made up of prominent Kansas Citians including R. Crosby Kemper and J. E. Woodmansee, and chaired by Conrad H. Mann. Other featured articles include: “The Sport of Kings” (p. 2), about the Riverside horse racing track and the machine-controlled gambling that takes place there; “Will They Be Able to Silence Mr. Bash?” (p. 3), a photo and article about Thomas Bash, "shooting sheriff" of Jackson County testifying in trial about the shooting regarding Charles Gargotta, including speculations about his reasons for testifying against the Pendergast machine despite its offers made to him to keep quiet; 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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1935-06-28
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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 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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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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Bryce B. Smith
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Description
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Undated formal portrait of Bryce B. Smith, member of the Kansas City School District Board of Education. Typewritten label on the back reads, "BRYCE B SMITH/BOARD MEMBER 1927-1930." Smith was also mayor of Kansas City from 1930-1934.
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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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Kansas City Headliners
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Description
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Photo and bio of Bryce Smith, "former mayor and close friend of President Truman" as well as a "top man in the Continental Baking Company" residing "at his Red Bridge Farm south of the city."
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Date
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1949-11-15
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Old Tricks
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Description
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Article about the probable continued corruption in City Hall without bringing in outsiders, for example, a city manager from outside Kansas City, and thus not from the Pendergast "clique."
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Date
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1940-03-16
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Object Type
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Magazine Article