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Title: Earl Shackelford
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Earl Shackelford; photo autographed: "In sincere appreciation of 'Legion Day' of South Central Business Ass'n - 1935, Earl H. Shackelford, Dept. Commander".
Date: 1935
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Legion Convention
Description: Interior view of 24th annual national convention, held September 18-21, 1942, at Municipal Auditorium.
Date: 1942
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Legion Fountain
Description: Postcard of the American Legion Fountain that was once at 9th and Main streets, later relocated to the Budd Park Esplanade at Van Brunt Boulevard and Anderson Avenue.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Liberty Memorial Dedication Parade
Description: Postcard of the American Legion parade during the Liberty Memorial Dedication in 1921.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Grover Metzger Post 224 of the American Legion
Description: Members of Grover Metzger Post 224 of the American Legion and the baseball team sponsored by the post marching south along Grand near 13th in unidentified parade; post members carrying banner that reads "Kansas City American Legion Grover Metzger Post 224, Junior Baseball Champions 1948".
Date: 1948
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas J. Strickler
Description: Portrait of Major Thomas J. Strickler, associated with the American Legion. He spoke at the November 8, 1955 luncheon meeting.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Legion
Description: Folder includes published brochures and speeches, photographs of the 1921 American Legion Convention Executive Committee, charter of the William T. Fitzsimons Post No.8 which was the first post organized in Kansas City, and photostats of court degrees and petitions.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Kansas City and the American Legion
Description: Article about the Liberty Memorial dedication, a $2 million project. Designed by architect H.V.B. Magonigle for World War I dead.
Date: 1921-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Negro Veterans' Reunion
Description: Festive event for both black and white war veterans, including dancing, swimming, boxing, etc.
Date: 1932-08-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Eagle's Nest was Ours, This was Home Turf
Description: The Eagle's Nest, or American Legion Post 213, was an anchor of the neighborhood at Argentine Boulevard and 26th Street in Kansas City, Kansas. The post was founded by Hispanic veterans who returned from World War II and found that they were excluded from the Legion. Now, Daniel Ramirez and Fidel Saucido want to restore the baseball field there where he and others played as children.
Date: 2005-03-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Request for Information about Pvt. Wayne Miner, 1894-1918
Description: Article requests information about the "descendants/relatives of Pvt. Wayne Miner who was killed in action and is a hero of World War I." The article gives a brief history of Miner and information about his family. Members of the American Legion Wayne Miner Post 149 and Congressman Cleaver are requesting the United State Army to promote him to sargeant and award him the Distinguished Service Cross.
Date: 2011-06-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Future: The Newsweekly for Today
Description: Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the escape from federal police in Kansas City of Sam Randazzo, "a St. Louis gangster" being released from Leavenworth, with the help of police officials Otto Higgins and Jeff Rayen. Other featured articles include: “Patriots Go to Riverside” (p. 2), about the gambling on horse racing in Riverside, Missouri, "(owned by Pendergast associates)" and its effects on gambling salons or saloons in Kansas City such as "the Bowery and the King Kong"; “The Eagle Hovers” (p. 2), about the meeting of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (led by Conrad Mann) in honor of Thomas J. Pendergast to initiate 1,000 new members affiliated with the local Democratic Party including Charles Carrollo ("companion of John Lazia when the North End Democratic leader was machine-gunned to death"), Dominick Binaggio ("political gambling king here"), et al.; “New Pussys” (p. 3), about the "Pusateris" operating gambling machines, prostitutes, bootleg liquors, and "juicy steak dinners" "about a block east of police headquarters" during the Prohibition era, moving in 1935 to a new building near 79th and Holmes Streets "outside the city limits" and projected to be "one of the swankiest night clubs and casinos in the Middle West"; “Pathetic Case of Leonard Claiborne” (p. 3), photo and article about Leonard Claiborne, "for fifteen years a city detective" for the Kansas City Police Department and sentenced to "a four-year term for a lie he told to save the neck of Charles Gargotta, North Side gangster" under John Lazia in 1933; and “May We Present Mrs. George H. Hoxie” (p. 5), photo and profile of Ida S. Hoxie, who worked with the Consumers’ League to ensure that local dairies were hygienic and was also active with the Red Cross and League of Women Voters; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
Date: 1935-05-24
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: Future: The Newsweekly for Today
Description: Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the Kansas Citians of Italian descent and their often unfair treatment in the newspapers for their comparatively few members of organized crime, and descriptions of several "cultured and law-abiding" local Italians such as musicians M. A. Lenge, N. DeRubertis, Mike Russo, Arturo Corti, Gustavo Corti, and Rosemarie Brancato; artists Dante Cosentino, Frank Tommassini, and Paulo D'Anna; and scientists and teachers Dr. Louis Laurenzanna, Frank Laurenzanno, Dr. E. Mella, and Elio Monachesi. Other featured articles include: “Cheese Joins the Gang” (p. 3), a photo and article about Charley Casciola, or Cheese Casciola, a "hoodlum machine election 'worker'" acquitted of involvement in "the bloody election day murders March 27, 1934"; and “May We Present W. W. (Tom) Graves” (p. 5), a photo and profile W. W. Graves, Jr. (Waller Washington Graves), or Tom Graves, prosecuting attorney of Jackson County with close ties to the Pendergast machine; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
Date: 1935-05-31
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: Independence Greets Captain Kirk
Description: Article is about actor William Shatner's road trip and stop in Independence. The actor is completing a motorcycle road trip that will take him to different American Legion posts in Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California. The trip is to raise awareness for the American Legion Legacy Scholarship and to promote a new type of motorcycle he helped design called the Rivet.
Date: 2015-06-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City and the American Legion
Description: Article about plans for the dedication event of the Liberty Memorial with the American Legion, World War I officials from America and abroad, and other festivities, including cowboys and Indians, flying and parachute stunts, the "Jazzy Jazz Revue," dances, weddings, etc. Mention of several prominent or famous people planning to be in attendance, including foreign war leaders "Marshal Foch, Admiral Beatty, Baron Jacques and General Diaz," and American General John Pershing, as well as President Warren Harding, Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, Samuel Gompers, ace pilot Eddie Rickenbacher, architect H. Van Buren McGonigle, "Miss Wyoming," and "Miss Colorado," et al.
Date: 1921-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: My Revelation
Description: Illustration and description of the American Legion Parade visiting the Longview Farm while international political leaders attend meeting in Kansas City in 1921.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Book

Title: Sheet Music Composed in Kansas City for the American Legion Convention
Description: Located in the department's sheet music collection (SC59) is a piece of sheet music entitled "America is Proud of You" which is a march song dedicated to the American Legion and introduced by the Arthur Maloney Post, No. 93, at the National Convention of the American Legion held in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 31 - November 2, 1921. The words and music are by Art J. Hiller. The cover of the sheet music includes a soldier and a sailor shaking hands in front of Uncle Sam. Inside of the sheet music cover can be found the American Legion preamble.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Archival Material

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