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Title: A Change in a Great Firm: Bullene, Moore, Emery & Co. Now Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co.
Description: Portraits (of L. T. Moore, J. T. Bird, W. B. Thayer [or William Bridges Thayer], and J. C. Fennell) and article about the change in name of the Bullene, Moore, Emery & Company dry goods store in 1895 to the Emery, Bird, Thayer & Company dry goods store due to the death of T. B. Bullene and retirement of the ailing L. T. Moore (coming to Kansas City in 1871 from Alabama as a member of the firm) and planning to "leave soon for a Southern health resort."
Date: 1895-01-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Bullene, Moore, Emery, and Co.
Description: Spring and Summer catalog of fashions and other items sold by the Kansas City company of Bullene, Moore, Emery, and Company. Includes an index by item type and has numerous illustrations. Includes fashion accessories for men, women, and children as well as notions and materials for dressmaking.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Pamphlet

Title: Emery Bird Thayer
Description: File contains photos and information on the Emery, Bird, Thayer Company and store.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
Description: Photo and bio of William Whiting Atwill, or William Atwill, "advertising manager" for the Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company, starting in business in Kansas City with the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad in the 1890s.
Date: 1902
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of William B. Thayer (1852-1907) and Sallie Casey Thayer (1856-1925), Merchant and Art Patrons
Date: 2008
Object Type: Biography

Title: Stardust Memories
Description: Mrs. Hughes Porter has kept a collection of bids" or invitations she received to parties at the Jack O'Lantern. Bids were mailed or were exchanged by hand at "Emery's Porch," a popular singles' meeting place at the Walnut Street entrance. A ledger on a table just inside the door catalogued names and messages between friends."
Date: 1980-12-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Drawing of Stable and Storehouse
Description: Drawing of a stable and storehouse to be built for the Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company, done by Van Brunt and Howe, architects.
Date: 1900-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: E. B. T. Long a Part of Downtown Scene
Description: Article about the razing of the building of the stalwart Kansas City department store.
Date: 1971-02-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Obituary for Hervey Conley Adams
Description: Obituary for Hervey Conley Adams, or Hervey Adams, an assistant vice-president and credit manager of the Emery, Bird, Thayer department store company, dying on December 7, 1960.
Date: 1960-12-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Overflow at Emery, Bird, Thayer
Description: Fainting shoppers and long lines at the closing sale of the Downtown branch of the clothing store at 907 Walnut Street.
Date: 1968-08-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Emery, Bird, Thayer Store
Description: Partial view of the front of the Country Club Plaza Emery, Bird, Thayer store, located at 47th Street and Broadway Boulevard. Federal Sign and Signal Corporation received an award for excellence in their design of the illuminated sign pictured here.
Date: 1964
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nurse and Hospital Exhibit
Description: Interior view of an exhibit which features hospitals and nursing and includes a mannequin in a nurse's uniform. Sign located in back reads: "Emery Bird's Proudly Presents" and poster by nurse reads: "Kansas City Pays Tribute to it's Hospitals & Nurses, May 12, 1946, National Hospital Day." Smaller placard in exhibit reads: "This exhibit prepared by the nurses at the General Hospital, No.1."
Date: 1946
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Emery, Bird, Thayer Building
Description: View of the Emery Bird Thayer Building looking northwest near Grand and 11th Street. The first Bryant Building can also be seen.
Date: 1901
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Emery, Bird, Thayer Company
Description: Postcard of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Company Building.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Emery, Bird, Thayer Building
Description: View looking northeast of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Building, once located at Walnut and 11th streets.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Emery, Bird, Thayer Building, Sidewalk Alongside
Description: View along sidewalk under canopy of Emery, Bird, Thayer department store building, Grand Avenue.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Drawing of Emery, Bird, Thayer Building
Description: Photograph of drawing of dry goods store building on 11th Street between Grand and Walnut.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Drawing of Emery, Bird, Thayer Building
Description: Photo of drawing of building on 11th Street between Grand and Walnut.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Emery, Bird, Thayer Building Exterior Details
Description: Close-up view of exterior details with a caduceus of the Emery, Bird, & Thayer department store on 11th Street between Grand Avenue and Walnut.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Emery, Bird, Thayer Building Exterior Details
Description: Close-up view of exterior details of a caduceus of the Emery, Bird, Thayer department store building on 11th Street between Walnut and Grand Avenue.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

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