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Title
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Ladd School Classroom
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Description
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Interior view of a classroom at Sanford B. Ladd Elementary school. Includes unidentified students watching classmates churn butter.
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Date
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1940-05
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing child carrying a candle. Caption says: "Who's There!" Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1882
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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J. W. Jenkins & Son
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Description
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Advertising card for J. W. Jenkins & Sons showing a girl dragging a large basket of apples down a hill. Front of card says: "Story & Clark Organ Co. Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago. For Sale By J. W. Jenkins & Son. Popular Prices! Decker Bros., Vose & Sons, Mathushek Pianos." Back of card has a small image of a factory and says: "Fall of 1890, Chicago, Ill. You are hereby respectfully invited to call at the Model Organ Factory of the World, corner Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago, at your early convenience and inspect same throughout, upon presentation of this card. We are to-day the largest exclusive reed organ manufacturers in the World..." Yours respectfully, Story & Clark Organ Co. / R. S. V. P." Address given on front of card:
615 Main St.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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F. R. Leonard
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Description
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Advertising card for F. R. Leonard showing a boy painting letters on a fence while a girl looks on. Letters on fence say: "This card is perfumed with Hoyts German Cologne, Fragrant & Lasting, Trial size 25 cts., Medium size 50 cts., Large bottles $1.00. E. W. Hoyt & Co., Proprietors, Lowell, Mass." Front lower right corner says: "Design copyrighted 1887." Back of card has advertising copy about Hoyt's German Cologne and Rubifoam a "liquid substitute for tooth powder...large bottles, 25 cents." It also says: "For Sale By F. R. Leonard...Dealer in Drugs, Patent Medicines, Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Brushes, Perfumery, Etc." One of two cards with identical images, but slightly different backs (the other card is for Hugo Eyssell). Address given on back of card:
1201 Main Street,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1887
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a girl and her doll covered in ink after knocking over the ink on a lap desk. Caption says: "The Accident." One of a set of three cards telling a story with this girl. Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Hugo Eyssell
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Description
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Advertising card for Hugo Eyssell showing a boy painting letters on a fence while a girl looks on. Letters on fence say: "This card is perfumed with Hoyts German Cologne, Fragrant & Lasting, Trial size 25 cts., Medium size 50 cts., Large bottles $1.00. E. W. Hoyt & Co., Proprietors, Lowell, Mass." Front lower right corner says: "Design copyrighted 1887." Back of card has advertising copy about perfume and says: "For Sale By Hugo Eyssell...Dealer in Drugs, Patent Medicines, Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Brushes, Perfumery, Etc." One of two cards with identical images, but slightly different backs (the other card is for F. R. Leonard). Address given on back of card:
Cor. 12th & Broadway,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1887
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a child sitting in a rocking chair with a doll near a lap desk. Caption says: "Rock A Bye Baby." One of a set of three cards telling a story with this girl. Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing girl standing on armchair holding a feathered hat. Caption says: "Young America." Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1882
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co.
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Description
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Folded advertising card for J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co. that unfolds to show an illustrated version of "Jack and Jill." When folded, the card looks like a crocodile leather wallet which says: "As there is interest for the reader of the jingles of childhood within, there is also profit for those who take advantage of our suggestions there." As you open the card, it says: "Our store is a great exposition of all that's newest and best in pianos, musical instruments and musical merchandise..."" When fully open, the inside of the card has the Jack and Jill rhyme accompanied by images of a girl and boy walking up a hill, then falling down the hill, then being patched up by a woman. At the bottom it says: "Copyrighted 1898 by Niagara Lith. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." Address is given on outside of card:
921-923 Main Street.
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1898
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Two Young Boys
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Description
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Unidentified boys standing on the porch of an unidentified building.
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Date
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1924-08-14
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Children Boarding a Bus
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Description
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Children boarding a bus at 15th and Campbell streets. The photograph was used as part of the Street Car Conduct project of the Junior Officer Council.
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Date
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1946
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Children at Fairyland Park
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Description
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Exterior group portrait of children eating "cones" at Fairyland Park.
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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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Children at Fairyland Park
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Description
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Group portrait of unidentified children eating "cones" at JP picnic; located at 75th and Prospect.
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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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Robert Esterley on Horseback
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Description
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Exterior portrait of Robert Esterley, son of a blacksmith, on horseback in front of the Allen Library (later the Westport Branch of the Kansas City Public Library).
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Long Bros.
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Description
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Advertising card for Long Bros., agents for Borden Selleck & Co., showing three children trying to weigh a pig on a scale. Front of card says: ?ǣHowe Scale.?ǥ Front lower right corner says: "Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, N. Y." Back of card says: "Borden Selleck & Co./ Managers Western Warehouses.
Chicago, 97 & 101 Lake St.
Cleveland, 157 Water St.
St. Louis, 612 N. Thrid St.
Agents, Long Bros., Kansas City, Mo.." No street address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing three children in a boat. One of four cards with similar design. Back of card has advertising copy, lists six locations in Cincinnati, and says: "150 branch Stores in the United States." No Kansas City address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Peet Bros. Mfg. Co.
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Description
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Advertising card for Peet Bros. Mfg. Co. showing two boys riding in a sulky or small carriage being pulled by a girl. Back of card has a poem about "Peet's Water Queen" soap and says: "Our New Plant. Number Employees, 250. Number Salesmen, 30. Factory over 130,295 square feet of Floor Space. Capacity, 40,000,000 lbs. Laundry Soap per year. Capacity, 2,000,000 pounds Toilet. Capacity, 1,300,000 pounds Glycerine. Canned Lyes ad libitum .."." Peet Bros. Mfg. Co." No address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Bernheimers
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Description
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Advertising card for Bernheimers showing a boy and a girl sitting in a blue, high-heeled shoe. The girl holds a doll and a parasol; the boy holds reins and a whip as if the shoe is a horse. Front lower left corner has number C-675. Back of card says: "A continuous show of shoes for men. A special for the week. The best shoes for the price in the city. Either black or tan color, and with heavy double soles. Fit and wear equal to any $5.00 shoe. Our Price is $3.50. This is a shoe made for winter wear." Address given on back of card:
12th & Main Sts.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Teacher and Children - Santa Claus Lesson
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Description
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View of an unidentified teacher leading a group of unidentified children in a lesson about Santa Claus at an unidentified school. A Christmas tree and other decorations can be seen in the background.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Children At Playground
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Description
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Children atop and near wagon at an unidentified playground.
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Date
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1945~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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