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Title: Manual Training High School
Description: Interior view identified as the Manual drawing room at Manual Training High School in Kansas City, Missouri. No identification given for the students. Photograph was taken from the Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education of the Kansas City Public Schools, for year ending June 30, 1898, p. 58 (MVSC 093.9 K16 1898).
Date: 1897~/1898~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Students Hearing Tested
Description: Interior view of an unidentified classroom with students and teachers, probably located in the Kansas City School District. Identified as "audiometer testing in schools." Picture appears in the City Manager's Annual Report, 1942-43, p. 27, MVSC Q 092.52 K16 1940-48, and identified as "conducting hearing tests in schools."
Date: 1942~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Back to Basics, New Millenium Style
Description: Article profiling Studio 804, an architecture program at the University of Kansas founded by Dan Rockhill to encourage students to create innovative designs for urban buildings. A Studio 804 home in the Strawberry Hill Neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas, is featured in the article.
Date: 2006-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Gay Studies
Description: Discusses the activities of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network in Kansas City area high schools.
Date: 2000-10-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Miseducation of Marcus Leach
Description: Article describes the tumultuous 2005-2006 term of University of Missouri-Kansas City's student body president, Marcus Leach. Leach was impeached and removed from office in February, 2006.
Date: 2006-06-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The School on the Hill
Description: Before school desegregation, Dalton Vocational High School in Dalton, Missouri, drew African American students from small towns all around. The black population in these towns was too small to support a high school so students commuted an hour or more each way. Article includes photographs of former students and of the school and relates the story of several graduates.
Date: 2007-10-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Central Debators Learn Valuable Life Lessons
Description: Article discusses the 2010 debate team from Central High School and the benefits that the students derive from the program. Under debate coach Jane Rinehart the team continues to win competitions all over the country.
Date: 2010-04-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Youth Entrepreneurs Program Gives Students Some Serious Info
Description: Articles profiles the Youth Entrepreneurs competition at Van Horn High School and some student participants. The Youth Entrepreneurs program was founded 20 years ago in Wichita, Kansas, by the Charles G. Koch Foundation with the goal of aiming students toward business ownership. Nearly 900 students from 29 high schools are currently enrolled in Youth Entrepreneurs classes.
Date: 2011-04-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Project Northeast Archives Tales of NEHS
Description: Article reports on "Project Northeast," an new venture by the Northeast High School Alumni Association to record oral histories of former NEHS students. The project leader is Roberta Kipper, a 1969 graduate.
Date: 2009-10-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Cross-X
Description: This book tells the story of Kansas City's inner city Central High School and its debate team and coach. From the book jacket: Here is the riveting and poignant story of four debaters and their coach as they battle formidable opponents from elite prep schools, bureaucrats who seem maddeningly determined to hold them back, friends and family who are mired in poverty and drug addiction, and--perhpas most daunting--their own self-destructive choices. Book focuses on the debate team's 2002 season.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Book

Title: Ruth Warrick
Description: Senior portrait of actress Ruth Warrick, Class of 1934, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. Warrick went on to make her film debut in "Citizen Kane" and starred in the soap opera "All My Children."
Date: 1934
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lester Milgram
Description: Senior portrait of future grocer and businessman Lester Milgram, class of 1934, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. Milgram went on to become president of Milgram's Food Stores, Inc.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC134 Westport High School Class Photographs Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains student photographs from Westport High School for the classes of 1907, 1912, and 1917. The collection also includes a set of student photographs that are not dated.
Date: 1907/1917
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Class Ending on a High Note
Description: Article profiles the last senior class of Southeast High School and their principal Cheryl Wright. The original Southeast High School at 3500 E. Meyer Blvd closed in 2007, but the remaining students were given the opportunity to stay together instead of transferring to other schools. Students started attending classes at Manual High School in 2007. All 47 seniors from the 2010 class will graduate.
Date: 2010-05-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Moler Barber College
Description: Street level view of Moler Barber College with students lined up in front. Sign also says: "Moler System of Colleges, founded 1893." Another sign attached to the front of the building lists branches of the school located in other cities. Believed to have been taken in Kansas City. Back of the photograph is stamped: "A. A. Riederer, 2814 West Prospect Pl, H.P.M. 5715, K.C., Mo." This is the photographer's stamp. In the 1910 Kansas City city directory, the Moler Barber College is listed at 503 Delaware. Albert A. Riederer is listed as a photographer with the above stamped address. No identification of people in the view.
Date: 1910~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Study of Malnutrition of Schoolchildren
Description: Report detailing a 1919 health study on malnutrition involving Kansas City, Missouri students in 55 grade schools and the local anti-tuberculosis society. The study found that the Lowell School had the highest percentage of underweight children.
Date: 1920-07-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Nursing Students
Description: Exterior view of unidentified young men and women in and by a Chevrolet automobile parked outside of General Hospital. A 24th Street street sign is in view. Believed to be nursing students and other medical students.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nursing Students
Description: Interior view, two unidentified nursing students, believed to be at General Hospital. Girls are holding Coca-Cola bottles.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Instruction on Medical Diagnosis
Description: Interior view of classroom, location not given. Teacher is identified as Dr. Cofer. Class title is not given, but a patient in a hospital bed is positioned up front and a series of x-rays is visible and being used by the teacher.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nurses in Training
Description: Interior view of three young women in what appears to be their living quarters. Presumed to be nurses in training, probably at General Hospital.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

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