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Title: Government Will Now Seek Decree in Star Trust Case
Description: Article about the Supreme Court case against the Kansas City Star for controlling media in the city too rigidly, requiring them to "dispose of radio station WDAF and television station WDAF-TV."
Date: 1957-06-22
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: West from BMA
Description: View facing west, taken from the BMA Tower, located at 700 W. 31st Street. An industrial area, a portion of the Westside neighborhood, and the WDAF tower can be seen.
Date: 1964-06-18
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bill Leeds
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Bill Leeds, news man associated with WDAF-TV and Radio.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: WDAF Radio Drawing
Description: Crowd surrounding unidentified drawing being broadcast over WDAF radio.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Postcard of the Kansas City Star Building at 18th Street and Grand Avenue.
Date: 1924
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Ernie Mehl
Description: Publicity photograph of Mehl in front of WDAF microphone.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star
Description: View looking north on Grand Avenue. The Kansas City Star newspaper building is in view in the center, located at 18th and Grand just south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. There are vehicles in view on Grand Avenue and the WDAF radio towers are visible on top of the Star building.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: WDAF Station Building
Description: Exterior, partial view of the WDAF broadcasting building entrance, located on Signal Hill, at the northwest corner of 31st Street and Southwest Trafficway. Also has the owner's name, The Kansas City Star, on the front. Processing date on photograph: May, 1955.
Date: 1955-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: WDAF Kansas City Radio Station
Description: Employees of the radio station including Harry Darby (4th from the right) and Bill Leeds (right).
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1A, 1939-1957, Page p158
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 30th Street south to W. 31st Street and from Madison Avenue east to Pennsylvania Avenue, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1939/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: P42 WDAF Radio Studio Photographs Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains three oversize photographs of the WDAF Radio Studio from the 1920s and 1940s-1950s. The station began broadcasting on June 2, 1922, from the basement of the old Kansas City Star Building at 18th and Grand.
Date: 1920/1950
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: The Big Band Almanac
Description: History of the Coon-Sanders Band, also known as the Kansas City Nighthawks, formed in 1919 with their first broadcasting over the radio in 1921. Subject of "doubtless the first radio fan club. ..the 'Nighthawk Club,'" on early WDAF radio programming.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Book

Title: SC1-3 Fred Edmiston Papers Finding Aid
Description: Collection of material contained in five boxes that relates to the publication of "The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks: The Band That Made Radio Famous," authored by Fred Edmiston. This book recounts the Nighthawks formation and early years up to Carleton Coon's death in 1932. The collection includes primarily correspondence, photocopies of newspaper articles, photographs, audio recordings, and motion pictures, as well as a scrapbook that features Johnny Coon, Carleton Coon's son.
Date: 1920~/2003~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: He Owns Morning Radio
Description: Article about radio announcer Lawrence and his successful country music radio programs.
Date: 1986-06
Object Type: Magazine Article