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Title: Kansas City Field Club Tennis Courts
Description: People playing tennis on the courts at the Kansas City Field Club located at 51st Street and Swope Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1916-07-23
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swope Park Tennis Courts
Description: Distant view of the tennis courts at Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri filled with people playing.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: South Central Business Association Outing at Rockaway Beach, Missouri
Description: Unidentified men and women playing tennis outside the Hotel Taneycomo at Rockaway Beach, Missouri on Lake Taneycomo. Probably associated with a South Central Business Association outing to the Ozarks.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Road in Swope Park
Description: Road leading to tennis courts.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tennis Players
Description: Postcard of tennis players.
Date: 1906
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Penn Valley Tennis Courts
Description: Unidentified people playing tennis. Tennis courts located east of Broadway and north of 29th.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tennis Courts
Description: Unidentified people on tennis courts, located across from the Concourse.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Loose Park Tennis Courts
Description: Looking northeast at unidentified people on tennis courts, located on west side of park; also shows Rose Garden.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tennis Players at Hyde Park
Description: Looking north at unidentified women playing tennis on park tennis courts; located on Gillham between 35th and 38th.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. F. Schmelzer and Sons
Description: Advertising card for J. F. Schmelzer and Sons showing elves or some small people with pointed hats playing tennis. There are four elves per side and all four hold one large racket together. Front of card says: "J. F. Schmelzer and Sons, Importers and Dealers in Guns, Fishing Tackle, Base Ball, Tennis Goods, Bicycles And Sporting Goods." Front lower left corner has number B 346. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 543 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: A. A. Pearson, Millinery and Fancy Goods
Description: Advertising card for "A. A. Pearson, Millinery and Fancy Goods" showing a girl in a red dress and white cap holding a tennis racket. Caption says: "Forty, Love." One of three cards with similar design. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1036 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: North Terrace Park
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swope Park Tennis Courts
Description: Distant view of tennis courts at Swope Park.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tennis Players at Swope Park
Description: Unidentified men watching people playing tennis on park courts; located southwest of Lagoon.
Date: 1932-06-17
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tennis out of the Ice Age
Description: Article about the incongruous beginnings of the World Championship tennis league in the city, with the first court set up on a sheet of ice inside the American Royal Arena.
Date: 1977-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Biography of Lamar Hunt (1932-2006), Businesman and Sports Entrepreneur
Date: 2009
Object Type: Biography

Title: Love-82: Leo Feingold's Lifetime of Tennis
Description: Photos and biographical article about Leo Feingold, an 82-year-old top-ranked tennis player for his age group, born in New York in 1915. Description of his life and career, starting the sport as an adolescent and becoming a military officer in World War II before moving to Kansas City with his new wife in about 1945.
Date: 1997
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Matilda Shelden
Description: Photo and description of Matilda Dallmeyer Shelden, or Matilda Shelden, wife of Dr. Frank Shelden ("a noted tennis star") and member of the upper house of the City Council in 1924, "member of the Woman's City Club, past president of the Kansas City Rose Society in 1947, a musette of the Kansas City Museum, and active in the Second Presbyterian Church."
Date: 1968
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Map of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Tour and store directory map for the Country Club Plaza shopping center. A note records that the illustration is based on an original 1947 map and revised of January 1967. Significant Plaza buildings, shops and amenities are shown. The reverse side provides a directory of retail and service shops with addresses and telephone exchange numbers. A text description of the Country Club Plaza is also included.
Date: 1967
Object Type: Map

Title: Virginia Slims Gals to Make KC Stop
Description: Article about the professional women's Virginia Slims tennis tournament in town.
Date: 1978-02
Object Type: Magazine Article