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Title: Earl Beck
Description: File containing photos and multiple articles about Earl Beck, "recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia" as appointed by his personal friend, President Harry Truman. Beck was an African American real estate businessman born in Wamego, Kansas about 1890 with residence later in Kansas City at 2147 East 24th Street and became superintendent of the county Parental Home for Negro Boys and Girls.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Kansas City Cradle
Description: Information on the Kansas City Cradle, a child care and placement agency or organization (associated with the Council of Social Agencies during World War II) that began in 1915 as "the Harry M. Evans Children's Home Society" at 520 Woodland Avenue and partially moved in 1934 to the Eastside Maternity Hospital at 4911 East 27th Street before changing names to the Kansas City Cradle in 1936. At the end of 1936 it moved to a new building at 4321 Wornall Road. It disbanded in 1945 and became an affiliate of St. Luke's hospital.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Widows' and Orphans' Home Society
Description: Information about the society established on August 11, 1866 and incorporated in 1867 under the name The Widows' and Orphans' Home Society of Missouri.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: The Women's Christian Association of Kansas City, Missouri, Annual Reports
Description: These annual reports of the Association and their work "conducting" the Gillis Orphans' Home, also known as the Gillis Home, and the Margaret Klock Armour Memorial Home for Aged Couples are for the years 1907-1908, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1922. The reports include the charter, by-laws, list of officers and members of the Association as well as photos of the buildings.
Object Type: Book

Title: Saint Joseph's Orphan Home of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Includes a photocopy of a 1906 pamphlet called "11th Annual Picnic, St. Joseph's Orphan Home, 31st and Jefferson Streets, Kansas City, Mo." The pamphlet has pictures of Reverend J. J. Glennon, Father Donnelly, and Reverend Mother Agatha, Guthrie. File also contains articles and a short history of the home.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: St. Joseph Female Orphan Asylum
Description: Photo only of the St. Joseph Female Orphan Asylum at 31st and Jefferson. (Also known as St. Joseph's Orphan Home.)
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book Section

Title: History of the [Old Folks and Orphans'] Home
Description: Photocopy of a magazine article with photos and history of the Old Folks and Orphans' Home "established in December 1889, in a rented building for the purpose of providing food and shelter for aged and destitute colored people and orphan children." Co-organized by Mrs. Johanna Moore and "a few women of St. Augustine's chapel" before being moved from 1308 Vine Street in 1898 to 2446 Michigan Avenue.
Date: 1900-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lillian Snyder
Description: Obituary for Lillian Snyder, or Mrs. LeRoy Snyder (dying in 1967), winner of the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise, first class, by Marshall Ferdinand Foch at the dedication ceremonies of the Liberty Memorial here for her work in raising money for the French World War I orphans.
Date: 1967-06-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1957, Page p355
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 22nd Street south to E. 24th Street and from Euclid Avenue east to Park Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 6, 1917-1957, Page p788
Description: A portion of eastern Kansas City from E. 55th Street south to E. 58th Street Terrace and from Swope Parkway east to Kensington Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1917/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City Cradle
Description: Child in basket with nurse and another woman looking on. Sign over porch reads "Harry M. Evans Children's Home," located at 520 Woodland Avenue(1930 Kansas City city directory) which changed to the Kansas City Cradle in 1936.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Armour-Gillis Orphan Home
Description: Exterior view of children on a slide at the Armour-Gillis Orphan Home.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Soldiers, Orphans, and Widows Home and Hospital
Description: At the bottom left in a box, "Soldiers Orphans and Widows/Home--and Hospital,/St. Joseph Missouri." On the righthand side at the bottom in the same type of box, "J. A. Storm and W. Angelo Powell/Architects and Superintendents/St. Joseph Missouri." Printed on the reverse is "From the/New York Gallery,/North Side Market Square,/St. Joseph, MO./L. A. Furlong & Co." A handwritten line is drawn through the Furlong name and handwritten below is "Crowther Bros." According to "The History of Buchanan County, Missouri," (1881) J. A. Storm, architect, was a long-time partner in "contracting and building with John C. Evans," but "in 1865, he sold out to DeClue & Shivel, and for one season, in company with W. Angelo Powell, conducted a real estate and architect's office" (p. 908).
Date: 1866~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Orphan Boys Home Chapel
Description: Distant view looking northeast of Kansas City Orphan Boys Home and chapel.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Orphan Boys Home
Description: Frontal and partial side view of Kansas City Orphan Boys Home; located on the northwest corner of Westport Road and Southwest Trafficway.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

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