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Title
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The '81 Club
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Description
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The '81 Club recently celebrated its 125th anniversary with a dinner at the Kansas City Country Club. This women's club was founded by Sarah Coates and others to "associate themselves together for the purpose of mental improvement and the pursuit of a systematized course of study." The program for the evening was given by local historian Dory DeAngelo. Includes a photograph of the group.
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Date
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2007-03-03
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Sigma Delta Chi Gathering
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Description
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Gathering of Sigma Delta Chi, now the Society of Professional Journalists, in an unidentified location. Handwritten messages on the image read: Don't Crowd fellas' - we got plenty to go around! K.C. Star Style Books 20 cents.
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Date
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1964-12
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Elks' Club Building
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Description
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Postcard of the Elks Club No. 26 building, once located at 7th Street and Grand Avenue.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Kansas City Flambeau Club
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Description
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Flambeau Club members standing in formation outside a storefront.
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Date
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1886-07-18
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Prosperity Excursion - The Commercial Club of Kansas City, Mo.
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Description
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Panoramic group portrait of members of the Commercial Club of Kansas City on a "Prosperity Excursion" in Herington, Kansas. The group is standing in front of a locomotive and a railroad station building. Several attendees are wearing large circular plaques that read: I am a Live Booster [illegible] For Anything in Kansas City - The Heart of America. Several others are holding pennants that read: No. 6 Car. Others are holding musical instruments.
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Date
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1915-05-17
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC199 ’81 Club Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection includes meeting minutes, programs, scrapbooks and other materials relating to the ’81 Club, a Kansas City women’s club founded by Sarah Chandler Coates in 1881.
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Date
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1886/2019
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Bellevue Lodge No. 2 of the Home Palladium Masked Ball
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Description
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Group portriat taken at a masquerade ball held by the members of Bellevue Lodge No. 2 of the Home Palladium mutual benefit society. The photograph may have been taken at a January 18, 1896, masked ball held at Arlington Hall, which once stood on the northeast corner of 10th and Walnut streets. The Home Palladium was a mutual benefit society founded in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1891. The organization's focus was to provide disability and death insurance to its members.
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Date
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1896~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Ladies' Wide-Awake Club
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Description
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Portrait of a group of women identified as the Ladies' Wide-Awake Club. The location is perhaps Albany, Missouri. A newspaper clipping with the photograph contains a reprint of the picture with identification as the following: Back row standing left to right - Callie Hunter, Lizzie Austin, Dora Twist, Woodie Garvin, Bernice Cranor, Nannie Perry, Delia Kier, Hattie Branham. Front row sitting, right to left - Lola Twist, Mary Curren, Bola Williams, Cassie Larmer, Florence Scarbrough, Nettie McIntosh, Laura Blakey, Lena Lyons, and Alice Howell.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Yacht Club
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Description
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View looking south of the Kansas City Yacht Club clubhouse building and boat launch that once stood at the foot of Delaware Street along the Missouri River. A portion of the Pugh Foundry Company facility at Delaware and Front streets can be seen in the background. Several boats and spectators amassed along the riverfront are in view.
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Date
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1915
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC160 Kansas City Athenaeum Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Founded in 1894 through a collaboration of existing women’s clubs, the Kansas City Athenaeum is one of the oldest women’s organizations in the area. The Kansas City Athenaeum Collection contains minutes, yearbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, operational and financial records, clubhouse information and building plans, and ephemera documenting the history of the club.
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Date
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1894/2012
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Warwick Club
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Description
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Unidentified interior view of club members in costumes. The man on the far left wearing glasses is Charles Charpiot, at one time a magazine artist and later the secretary-treasurer of the Shenandoah-Dives Mining company.
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Date
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1907
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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American War Dads Association
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Description
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Photograph of Nat Milgram (second from left) standing with a group of unidentified men wearing hats that read "American War Dad". Milgram founded the American War Dads as an organization for the fathers of veterans of the Korean War and World War II.
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Date
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1946
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Object Type
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Photograph
