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Title: Interview with Inge Silverman
Description: Interview with Inge Silverman about her life and experience working at Harzfeld's department store. She recounts the story of her and her family's immigration from Germany in 1936, escaping antisemitism ahead of World War II, and joining other family; her mother being hired at Harzfeld's, and later working for Cricket West. She discusses going to work at Harzfeld's herself as a teenager, working in sales and modeling clothes for customers, owner Siegmund Harzfeld's reputation for generosity and kindness with his employees, and later working for City National Bank and Beth Shalom Synagogue. She describes moving to Dallas in 1960, returning to Kansas City in 1970, and finding the retail landscape different and less high end due to market changes; and discusses the change from full service sales model to customers shopping on their own, noting what modern stores still provide additional service. She also recalls her mother's friendship with painter Thomas Hart Benton and his wife Rita.
Date: 2011-01-05
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Hidden Traces of Benton At Work Emerge At Last
Description: An article discussing pencil sketches by Thomas Hart Benton that are up for auction by Dirk Soulis Auctions in Lone Jack, Missouri. Items to be auctioned are a dozen previously unknown preliminary sketches of the mural "Achelous and Hercules" that used to be displayed in the Harzfeld's department store from 1949 until the store closed in 1984. It is now displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Date: 2010-12-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: New Book Chronicles Harzfeld's
Description: Profile of local authors Joe and Michele Boeckholt and their new book titled "Harzfeld's: A Brief History." The Boeckholts--both designers by trade--first became interested in Harzfeld's when they acquired the papers of the company's late graphic designer, Erasmus Beall. The department store was founded by Siegmund Harzfeld in 1891 as the Parisian Cloak Company and remained in business in Kansas City for nearly 100 years. Sidebar article includeds a Harzfeld's Department Store timeline (1891-1981).
Date: 2009-11-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Reproduction of Thomas Hart Benton Mural Installed at Benton Home
Description: A one-half scale reproduction of the mural painted by Thomas Hart Benton for the Harzfeld's Department Store is ''now on permanent exhibit at the Benton home [3616 Belleview].'' The original mural was 24 feet by 7 feet and hung above the elevators in the store. It is now owned by the Smithsonian Institution.
Date: 2005-10
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Harzfeld's Building
Description: View facing southeast of the Harzfeld's Building at 11th and Main streets. The building appears to be in a state of renovation.
Date: 1986-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Harzfeld's Building
Description: View looking southwest of the Harzfeld's Building at 11th and Main streets. The building appears to be in a state of renovation.
Date: 1986-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Harzfeld's Building
Description: View facing northeast of the Harzfeld's Building at 11th and Main streets. The building appears to be in a state of renovation.
Date: 1986-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Court of the Penguins
Description: View looking east of the Court of the Penguins on the Country Club Plaza (south side of 47th Street). Architect Ed Wimmer, of Linscott, Haylett, Wimmer & Wheat, received an award for his design of this block.
Date: 1980
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City's Retailing Revived (After a Fashion)
Description: Article about the renewed interest involving executive realignments in Kansas City's "retail environment," including clothing store Harzfeld's.
Date: 1979-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Reviews: Through Missouri with Pen and Camera
Description: Review of the photographic book "Missouri: Faces and Places" by Wes Lyle and John Hall, with photos and descriptions of "the Kansas City Shake House on 12th Street," a street scene in front of the Downtown Harzfeld's store, "Little Michael, an eleven-year-old evangelist, laying hands on a black woman at a revival in Kansas City," and other scenes from the local area.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Map of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Tour and store directory map for the Country Club Plaza shopping center. A note records that the illustration is based on an original 1947 map and revised of January 1967. Significant Plaza buildings, shops and amenities are shown. The reverse side provides a directory of retail and service shops with addresses and telephone exchange numbers. A text description of the Country Club Plaza is also included.
Date: 1967
Object Type: Map

Title: Harzfeld's New Store is Second Largest on the Plaza
Description: Article describes new Harzfeld's store, "the largest operation on the Plaza with the exception of Sears, Roebuck and Co." Designed by Edward W. Tanner and Associates and Neville, Sharp and Simon, the building is "slightly reminiscent of the Spanish influence." Article also provides some history of the orginal downtown Harzfeld's store.
Date: 1954-05-04
Object Type: Magazine 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 a photo and article, continued on page 8, about the business of Peter Lapetina, "funeral director at 536 Campbell" Street, connected with an associate at General Hospital Number One in a racket of charging all of its deceased's family members for rights to their corpses. Other featured articles include: “Laws and the Hawg” (p. 2), about an ordinance prohibiting the sale of restaurant and hotel trash to be used as hog feed; “So as Not to Forget the Forgotten” (p. 3), about the Amalgamated Association targeting poor Kansas Citians to spend money on games of chance; and “May We Present Albert N. Doerschuk” (p. 5), a photo and article about Albert Doerschuk, operator of a small drug store "[o]n the southwest corner of Westport and Pennsylvania Avenues" and former owner of the Harris House Hotel, coming to Kansas City about 1890 from Ohio; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
Date: 1935-04-26
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: Harzfeld's With Shriners Decorations
Description: Detail view of decorations on entrance to Harzfeld's, southeast corner of 11th and Main.
Date: 1924
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas Hart Benton Mural
Description: Postcard of the Achelous and Hercules mural by Thomas Hart Benton, once on display in the Harzfeld's Department Store in downtown Kansas City.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Harzfeld's Department Store
Description: Postcard of the Harzfeld's Department Store Building.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 12th and Main Streets
Description: Looking north along Main Street from 12th Street. On the right is the southwest corner of the Jones Store building. Harzfeld's Department Store is visible one block south, and signs for King Joy Lo Restaurant, Liggett's Drugs, B & G Hosiery, Newman Theater, and Berkson's line the west side of the street from south to north. The block on the west side of Main was razed in the early 1970s and now occupied by City Center Square.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Main Street, North from 12th Street
Description: Postcard of Main Street looking north from 12th Street.
Date: 1916~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 11th Street facing East
Description: View along 11th Street facing east from about Main Street. Downtown retail stores such as Woolf Brothers, Emery Bird Thayer, and Harzfeld's can be seen. The Southwestern Bell Telephone Building and Bryant Building are also in view.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Petticoat Lane West from Main
Description: View looking west along Petticoat Lane (11th Street) from its intersection with Main Street. Several pedestrians and cars can be seen. Signs for Virginia Dare, Woolf Brothers, and Harzfeld's are in view. The Emery, Bird and Thayer and Southwestern Bell Telephone buildings can be seen in the background.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

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