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Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 18 with Fish
Description: Scrapbook page containing 12 advertising cards arranged in four rows of three. Each card is 7 x 8 cm. and shows a fish bordered by an ocean or fishing scene. Cards identify fishes shown: Sawfish, Sturgeon, Moonfish, Catfish, Shad, Toadfish, Whitefish, Swordfish, Yellow Perch, Triggerfish, Sunfish. Card in lower left corner says: "Richmond, Straight Cut No. 1 Cigarettes Are the Best." and has an image of a bird identified as a "Pompadour."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 19 with Fish
Description: Scrapbook page containing 12 advertising cards arranged in four rows of three. Each card is 7 x 8 cm. and shows a fish bordered by an ocean or fishing scene. Cards identify fish shown: Striped Bass, Spanish Mackerel, Seabass, Perch, Mackerel, Shark, Haddock, Blowfish, Lobster, Salmon, Flounder, Porgy.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 31 with Traditional Costumes
Description: Scrapbook page containing 24 advertising cards arranged in four rows of six. Each card is 4 x 7 cm. Eleven of them show portraits of men in the traditional dress of a country. Cards identify the country and say: "Allen and Ginter's Cigarettes, Richmond. Virginia." Countries or areas shown: Servia, Scotland, Arabia, Egypt, Dahomey, South Africa (Boer), Greece, Java, Circassia, Mexico, Brazil. The 13 other cards appear to be from other sets including: 1. Two of gorillas: male and female. 2. Two of flowers: Lilac ("First emotions of love") and Sweet Violet ("Modesty."" Cards say "Ruby Cigarettes. Lone Jack Cigarettes Co. Lynchburg, Virginia. Isaac Friedenwald Lith. Balto." 3. One with Bolivian flag. Card says: "Allen and Ginter Cigarettes. Richmond, Virginia." 4. Two of women fishing: Sturgeon and Klipp Fish. 5. One with images of a flag, "Commodores Pennant, U. S. Navy," and "The Mississippi River Near Dubuque." Card says: "Our average sales are over Two Million Per Day." 6. Two of portraits of women. 7. One of a girl and flowers which says: "Wild English Daisies: Daintiness." 8. One with a photograph of a woman identified as Miss Vickers. Card says: "Admiral Cigarettes." 9. One of a man in a ship's crow's nest looking at a whale. Card says: "On a Whaling Voyage."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 32 with African American Stereotypes
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards showing African Americans in various situations. Two of the cards are missing. The cards show:1. Two geese with bodies made of bags of tobacco and cotton flying over a man in a field. Card says: "Copyright. Richmond and Co., Buffalo, N.Y."2. A man holding a fishing rod sitting by a river on a large spool of "Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton." Caption says: "'I reckon dis yere's strong 'nuff suah.'"3. A woman fixing a man's tie as three children look on. Caption says: "Sunday. Yer looks Lubly Ephraim, and it all comes-using dat Higgins' Soap."4. A woman and some children opening the door to a visitor or salesman whose coat tails are being nibbled by a goat. Card says: "Compliments of the Domestic Sewing Machine Co."5. A man sitting holding a tambourine.6. Two people in "native" dress leading an elephant. Card says: "Soap Makers, Chicago. 'Blue India.'"7. A man singing.8. Three people and a cat kneeling on the floor looking at their reflections in a stove. Card says: "Rising Sun Stove Polish. 'I say Snow Flake, dat stove was blacked with rising sun. Did you eber see de like?'"
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 36 with Scenes of Country Life and Other Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing six advertising cards showing the following:1. A man with a mandolin sitting looking into a woman's eyes. Lower right corner of card says: "Depose." 2. People fishing in a river in front of a mill building with waterwheel.3. Two horses and a foal. Lower right corner has number 571.4. Two images: A man plowing a field with a team of three horses and a man and woman talking. Card says: "Plowing." Lower right corner says: "Richmond and Co. Buffalo, N.Y."5. Two people embracing in the desert as a servant looks on. Card says: "'The parting of Ruth and Naomi." Lower left corner says: "J. Ottmann Lith. Co. N.Y."6. A house in the woods in winter, covered in snow. Card says: "The Genuine [Dr.] C. McLane's Liver Pills."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Agency Nominee Backs Kansas Outdoors Tourism
Description: Nominated by Gov. Sam Brownback as secretary of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Robin Jennison talks about his vision for promoting the "outdoors experience" in Kansas.
Date: 2011-01-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: City Fishing for a Half-Century
Description: Article profiling Inter-City Bait & Tackle, located one-half mile east of I-435 on 24 Hwy. The shop has been serving area fisherman from the Northeast community and eastern Jackson County for over 50 years. The current owner is James Hardman, a 1986 graduate of Northeast High School, who purchased the business in 2005.
Date: 2007-07-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Ensley Lived Up To His Title
Description: Brent Frazee in his column "The outdoors" reminiscences about local sportsman Harold Ensley. He shares his own stories as well as those given to him by others. Ensley, known as "The Sportsman's Friend", recently died. Article includes a picture of him as an older man.
Date: 2005-08-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Fabled Guide Fletcher Dies
Description: Obituary for J. D. Fletcher, a longtime fishing guide and resort owner at Table Rock Lake, described as a "genuine Ozark hillbilly." It is stated that Fletcher served as a guide from 1958 to 2009, when he was forced to retire due to health concerns. Visitation and funeral service details are provided.
Date: 2014-01-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Ferd. Heim Brewing Co.
Description: Set of three advertising cards for the Ferd. Heim Brewing Co. tied together with a ribbon on the left side. Top card is blue and shows a framed sailing ship and some flowers. Second card is blue and shows a scene of two people sitting in a boat fishing next to a small bridge. Third card is pink and shows a view of the sea with sail boats and a lighthouse. Only the top card is scanned. One of two such sets of cards (second and third cards are identical in each set). Front of each card says: "Compliments of Ferd. Heim Brewing Co. Kansas City, Mo." Back of each card is blank. Address given on front of card: Kansas City, Mo. No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Fishing on Cowskin River
Description: Group photo of unidentified men fishing on the Cowskin River. Handwritten on the front, "Fishing on Cow Skin river Kas."
Date: 1890~/1899~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fishing Tackle Made in Missouri
Description: Book identifies fishing tackle manufacturers in Missouri between 1900 and 1989. Some of the Kansas City-area companies include: Lutz Pork Bait Company (920-924 Wyandotte), Arnold Manufacturing Company (2328 A Brooklyn), Perfection Bait Company (16. E. 11th St.), E. E. Combs (3816 Wyoming), Fetchi Lure Company (2026 Broadway), Metro Specialty (4436 St. John), Fly Boy Lures (4020 State Line Rd), and others. Includes illustrations of fishing lures and assorted tackle, as well as fishing tackle patents issued to Missourians.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Book

Title: A Fleet for Sydney Smith: Former Kansas Citian into the Halibut Fishing Industry
Description: File containing a biographical article about J. Sydney Smith, "formerly of Kansas City [member of the Board of Trade], but now of Vancouver, British Columbia" as owner of "the schooner Casca, which was used by Robert Louis Stevenson on his famous South Sea cruises."
Date: 1912-09-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Group of People with Fishing Gear
Description: A party of ten men and women posing by a stream; some of the people are wearing fishing gear and holding fly rods.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Idyll in the Ozarks
Description: Article about the fishing, boating, and other water recreation in rivers in the Missouri Ozarks, mostly soon to be flooded by dams by the unpopular Army Corps of Engineers, with a map and photos.
Date: 1955-06-25
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Jim Owen
Description: Biographical article about Jim Owen, promoter of "Ozark Float Fishing."
Date: 1955-01-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Jim Owen Obituary
Description: Obituary for Jim Owen, promoter of "Ozark Float Fishing."
Date: 1972-07-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Losing a Friend: He Fished in Front of the Cameras for 48 Years
Description: Review of the life of Harold Ensley whose popular TV show, ''The Sportsman's Friend,'' lasted 48 years. Ensley began his career doing a fishing report for WMBH radio in Joplin, Missouri, in the late 1940s. Ensley died August 24, 2005.
Date: 2005-08-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Missouri River In Kansas City
Description: Unidentified men and children with fishing nets along the north shore of the Missouri River; ASB Bridge under construction in the distance.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Photograph

Title: On the Edge of the South Land: The Game Preserves of Missouri
Description: Overview of animal game preserves in Missouri for hunting and fishing, especially in the Ozarks and along the Saint Francis River, with photos and history of Missouri hunting.
Date: 1901-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

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