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Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 79 with Women and Birds
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards with women and birds. Two cards show girls holding birds. Two cards show women in blue and lace dresses. Two identical cards show two long-tailed parrots and three other birds perched on branches. Two cards each show a bird perched on a branch with an insect flying nearby. One says: "Couch and Woodruff, Fine Shoes, Bridgeport Conn." The other says: "L. H. Johnson, Practical Horse Shoer, 51 Whalley Ave., New Haven, Conn." and right corner says: "Eureka Co., New Haven."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: A. Holland, Shoe and Clothing House
Description: Advertising card for A. Holland, Shoe and Clothing House showing a long, rutted road in snow. The image is bordered by flowers and a bird. Front lower left corner has number 838. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 551 and 553 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: A. Holland, Shoe and Clothing House
Description: Advertising card for A. Holland, Shoe and Clothing House showing a framed scene of a river surrounded by snow bordered by pink roses and a flying bird. Front lower left corner has number 840. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 551 and 553 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Swope Park Zoo
Description: View of different types of birds, Swope Park Zoo lake scene.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 14 with Birds
Description: Scrapbook page containing 12 advertising cards arranged in four rows of three. Each card is 7 x 8 cm. and shows a bird bordered by a scene of nature or hunting. Cards identify birds and say: "Richmond Straight Cut No. 1 Cigarettes are the best." Birds shown: American White Egret, Plumed Partridge, Scarlet Finch, Araguira, Kinglet, Saddle-back, American Bittern, Maryland Yellow-throat, Shaft-tailed Bunting, Swallow Dicaeum, Huia, Louisiana Heron.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: H. H. Shepard's
Description: Advertising card for H. H. Shepard's showing a blue bird sitting on a nest inside an envelope. The card is cut in the shape of an envelope with flap open. Front of card says: "Buy Your School Books, Wall Paper and Shades at H. H. Shepard's." Front lower right corner has number 234. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 618 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Gill Piano Company
Description: Advertising card for the Gill Piano Company showing a boy with wings and military style dress blowing a horn as he rides through the air on an envelope pulled by birds. One of two cards with similar theme. Front of card says: "Mason and Hamlin, Chase Bros., Keller Bros. Pianos. Gill Piano Company, Successor to The A. H. Whitney Co...James K. M. Gill, Manager." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1024 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Wilcox and White Organ Co.
Description: Advertising card for Wilcox and White Organ Co. showing a boy pushing a large egg along the ground and a bird flying in front of it. Front of card says: "Wilcox and White Organs. Few Equals--No Superiors..." Send for Catalogue and Prices." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 110 W. 9th Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Glesner, Ross, and Co.
Description: Advertising card for "Glesner, Ross, and Co., Manufacturing Confectioners” showing two hummingbirds flying around flowers. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Kansas City, Mo. No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: T. Lee Adams
Description: Advertising card for T. Lee Adams showing a rural scene with castle surrounded by a border of pansies and a bird. Front of card says: "Compliments of T. Lee Adams, Dealer in Field and Garden Seeds. Telephone 432.." .D. Landreth and Son's Garden, Flower and Lawn Seeds." Front lower left corner has number C-794. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 419 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: John Smith's Boot and Shoe Store
Description: Advertising card for John Smith's Boot and Shoe Store showing birds gathering around to listen to a young, naked child playing panpipes. Front of card says: "'Good Goods Cheap." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 514 West 14th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: H. C. Garth, Fine Confectionery and Fruits
Description: Advertising card for "H. C. Garth, Fine Confectionery and Fruits” showing a boy speaking to a duck, goose, and chick. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: No. 1021 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. J. Foster
Description: Advertising card for J. J. Foster showing a bird with red breast and face breaking through a fan holding a maple tree "whirly bird" seed in its beak. A lady bug sits on the fan. Front of card says: "J. J. Foster, Harness and Saddlery. Turf Goods a Specialty..."" .Telephone 2028." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 511 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: SC18 Harry Harris Papers Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of material related to Harry Harris’ (1878-1954) study of birds in the Kansas City area, including a lithograph print of an Harris’ finch, article reprints, correspondence, and a photograph of an Harris’ sparrow.
Date: 1919/1942
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: New Eastern Bluebird Trail at George Owens Nature Park
Description: A new Eastern Bluebird Trail was installed at the George Owens Nature Park in Independence, Missouri. It consists of a series of nesting boxes created for bluebirds, the Missouri state bird. The trail is monitored and documented by volunteers from March through May.
Date: 2010-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Flight of Freedom: Missouri's Eagle Population Is the Nation's Second Largest during Winter
Description: Photos and article about the migration of eagles (including bald eagles, the national symbol since 1782) to Missouri each winter, making Missouri's eagle population the second highest in the nation during this season. Also description of specific places to view bald eagles such as Smithville Lake and Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge.
Date: 2001-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: New Renovations Hold Big Expectations
Description: Work is progressing on changing portions of the south bank of the Missouri River near the River Market area. It will involve restoring a portion of the area to the way it would have looked to early settlers, extending the Riverfront Heritage Trail near the ASB Bridge and enhancements near the overlook at the foot of Main Street. "The $1.2 million project is being supervised by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and will include a wetland surrounded by native trees and grasses, bisected by the heritage trail. A looping pathway off the trail will allow people to get deeper into the natural area, which will extend to and be visible from the Grand Boulevard viaduct." As many as 85 bird species have been identified along the river in this area including the great blue heron, the white-throated sparrow, and the bald eagle.
Date: 2008-12-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Fun Magnates: Day Tripping with Shifra Stein
Description: One-page article about Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge about 90 miles northeast of Kansas City near Mound City, Missouri in the context of journalist Shifra Stein's day trip writings. Description and photo of the nature preserve especially for birds and deer, "with 7,000 acres of manmade marshes" and loess hills.
Date: 1991-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Reach for the Stars
Description: Cover story about artist Laura De Angelis and her work on the new design for Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park at 12th and Walnut streets called "Celestial Flyways." "The centerpiece of the redesigned park will be a 10-foot-wide interactive map of the stars set on a base tiled in intricately carved ceramics, also from De Angelis' hands." She's also designed 15 birds of steel that will be embedded in the concrete. Article includes a short history of the park and the Oppenstein brothers called "A Park is Born, Dies--And Is Reborn."
Date: 2008-01-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Earning Their Wings the Hard Way
Description: Photos and article about the "rare flock of giant Canadian geese" residing "along the cliffs of the Missouri River" near Hermann, Missouri, offering natural protection of their young there.
Date: 1985-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

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