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Title: Quiet De Mille Wedding
Description: Article describes wedding of Cecilia De Mille, daughter of the great director, to Joseph W. Harper, a Hollywood publisher. The wedding took place in the penthouse suite at the Hotel Muehlebach.
Date: 1938-01-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Biography of Goodman (1899 -1982) Ace and Jane Ace (1905-1974), Radio Personalities
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of William Powell (1892-1984), Actor
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Village of Loch Lloyd's New Resident
Description: Tammy Faye Messner, formerly wife of preacher Jim Bakker, has moved from Charlotte, N.C., to the Village of Loch Lloyd, just south of Kansas City.
Date: 2007-07-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Where Have All the Lively Ones Gone?
Description: List, including brief descriptions, of 21 colorful Kansas Citians, no longer highly visible in the community, who "made us chuckle," and "who gave Kansas City a personality."
Date: 2005-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Negroes--Achievement
Description: File containing a booklet entitled The ABC Picture Book of Eminent Negroes Past and Present, written (and autographed) by Thomas M. Southern, and published in 1951 by the ABC Publishing Company.
Date: 1905-05-04
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Homegrown: J. Kent Barnhart
Description: Brief biographical sketch, with photograph, of J. Kent Barnhart, a multi-talented entertainer who grew up in Raytown and attended the UMKC Conservatory of Music.
Date: 2002-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Mouse Best Known Creature in World: Walt Disney Used as Model Little Rodent in His Thirty-first Street Studio
Description: Article with photos and description of the early animation career and upbringing of Walt Disney in Kansas City with his first studio at 3028 Bellefontaine Avenue. Numerous details about his various artistic projects here including the inspiration for his creation of his signature Mickey Mouse character.
Date: 1935-09-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Sophie Tucker
Description: Portrait of performer Sophie Tucker autographed to Joe Sanders.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Eugene and Willie Howard
Description: Portrait of brothers, performer Eugene Howard and actor/writer Willie Howard, autographed to Joe Sanders.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Jean Harlow
Description: Jean Harlow standing outside Union Station. Harlow was in Kansas City to promote her new picture Hell's Angels.
Date: 1930-11
Object Type: Negative

Title: Knute Rockne Outside Union Station
Description: Knute Rockne, second from left, and other unidentified men outside Union Station. Believed to be last photograph taken of Rockne before the plane crash in Kansas which killed him on March 31, 1931.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Liberace With nurses
Description: Group portrait of Liberace with unidentified nurses; photo autographed.
Date: 1957-06-18
Object Type: Photograph

Title: South Central Business Association Event
Description: Actor Forrest Tucker and Starlight producer Richard Berger and unidentified women and man at a South Central Business Association event.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Jean Harlow
Description: Jean Harlow (right), her mother Jean Harlow Carpenter Bello (center), and grandmother, outside Union Station. Harlow was in Kansas City to promote her new picture Hell's Angels.
Date: 1930-11-20
Object Type: Negative

Title: Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride
Description: Actors Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride (Ma and Pa Kettle) with unidentified men at the opening of the Jones Store located on the northwest corner of 31st and Troost.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders and Others
Description: View of a group of people standing by an airplane. Included is Joe Sanders on the far left of the photo. The caption reads: "Texas City Benefit cast. We did two shows, one at Pt. Arthur & one at Austin." Also at the top of the photo: "Texas City Disaster Benefit cast, Pt. Arthur, Tex." The sign on the airplane reads: "Naval Air Transport Service." Others identified on the picture include from left to right: Pt. Arthur Mayor standing next to Joe Sanders, Harry Bobbitt standing next to Mayor, clearance officer in uniform, Mickey Rooney, Ann Blyth, Celeste Holm, Kay Kyser, Sunny Tufts, Marion Morgan, Jane Russell, Victor Borge, and Jerry Wald.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bill Hayes
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Bill Hayes; photo autographed "To Mr. N.E.Patton from Bill Hayes "Oklahoma", KC 6/16/59".
Date: 1959
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Paul Whiteman
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of band leader, Paul Whiteman.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lila Page
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Lila Page; photo autographed. Identified on back of photo as "Lila Page - Blossom Time".
Object Type: Photograph

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