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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Lawrence Jones, president of the Jones Dry Goods Company of Kansas City. He was born in Illinois in 1856 and started out as a teacher. Includes description of his later career, starting his department store chain with his brother in Illinois and Kansas and moving it to the Kansas City area in the 1890s. It was located first on the Missouri side at 6th and Main Streets, destroyed by fire, and the second being located at 12th and Main Streets, "the largest department store in the United States west of Chicago."
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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A Department Store For Jones' Bros.
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Description
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Short article about the impending construction of a new store building for the Jones' Bros. Dry Goods Co. to be located at 12th and Main Streets.
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Date
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1900-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City's Carnival
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Description
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Article describes a street fair held by Kansas City's leading retail establishments in a five-block bazaar sponsored by Karnival Krewe. It describes the different companies and details their merchant booths that were set up, providing numerous images.
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Date
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1899-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Illustrated, 1902
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Description
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Full page ad and illustrations of growth from 1887 to 1902 and brief history of the company at 12th and Main Streets.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Keeping up with the Macy's
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Description
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Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores will takover the St. Louis-based May Department Stores Co., current owners of the Jones Store, and rename all the Jones stores to Macy's. Currently the Jones Stores are at Independence Center, Metcalf South Shopping Center, Metro North Shopping Center, Oak Park Mall, Prairie Village Shopping Center, and Town Center Plaza.
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Date
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2005-07-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Jones Store Company
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Description
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Postcard of the Jones Store Company building.
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Date
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1916-10-16
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Jones Dry Goods Company
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Description
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Jones Dry Goods Company wall paper, paints, and draperies both.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Main Street, Cyclone Damage
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Description
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Exterior view of the 500 block on Main Street that sustained damage from a tornado in Kansas City, Missouri. One of the destroyed buildings was the Jones Dry Goods Store (557 & 561 Main Street). The building in the forefront sold playing cards. The sign remaining on the window says "DOERR/603/...of PLAYING CARDS," and what looks like a cigar store Indian also remains with the words Playing Cards on its base. Written on the front of the photograph in ink, "wrecked by cyclone K. C. Mo." The 1899 Kansas City city directory has a Chris Doerr at 603 Main Street listed as cigar manufacturer.
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Date
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1899-11-05
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Object Type
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Photograph
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