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Title
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Social Prospectus of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Report prepared by the Research Bureau of the Board of Public Welfare chronicling the description, demographics, industries, churches, schools, recreational activities, housing, social services available and other problems affecting seven Kansas City districts. The authors of the report pay special attention to the city's immigrant and African American communities. A broad general prospectus of the entire city is also provided. The report contains several photographs and maps provided to illustrate the nature and extant of social and health problems affecting Kansas Citians. The districts covered by the report are: the North West, the North Side, the West Side, the Swope Settlement, the Hospital, Penn Valley and the East Side.
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Date
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1913
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Swope Settlement
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Description
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Folder includes two different brochure type publications, one being a fold-out with numerous photographs included. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
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Date
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1925~
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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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 apartments on the Country Club Plaza and Armour Boulevard managed by the Assured Rental Company (led by George Goldman and Herman Shapiro), in the city's "South Side," voting against the Pendergast ticket City Council nominees. Apartment buildings involved including "the White Hall apartments, 323 Brush Creek boulevard; the Alcazar, 101 West [39th Street]," and "the Armour Plaza apartments, 1216 East Armour boulevard, and the Ricardo, 811 East Armour boulevard." Other featured articles include: “Ah! Union!” (p. 3), about the 1936 election for Missouri state senator, with Bennett Clark winning over Pendergast candidate Charles Howell despite being "robbed of 20,000 votes in Kansas City"; and “May We Present Bryson Ayres” (p. 5), a photo and profile of Bryson Ayres, an Independence florist and anti-Pendergast activist born in Missouri and growing up in the Pacific Northwest before coming to Kansas City; 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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1935-06-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper
