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Title: Orpheum Theater
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Orpheum Theater
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hotel Muehlebach in 1915
Description: Photo and text about the intersection of 12th and Wyandotte Streets, depicting the Hotel Muehlebach and adjacent Orpheum Theater, the latter referred to as razed, possibly extending to the similar fate of the Gayety Theater building.
Date: 1971-02-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Plan Convention Site: Contracts for Construction of Center on Old Orpheum Theater Property Have Been Let by the Hotel Muehlebach
Description: Illustration, caption, and article about a proposed "large and modern convention center on the old Orpheum theater site" planned for 1966 by the Hotel Muehlebach on Baltimore Avenue, complete with expansions on the hotel itself.
Date: 1965-01-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Orpheum Is Sold
Description: Photo and description of the Orpheum Theater, with "future use in doubt" after being bought by the company owning the adjacent Hotel Muehlebach.
Date: 1956-01-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Orpheum Theater
Description: Article with an interior photo of the soon-to-be-demolished Orpheum Theater and description of its past showings of famous actors, including vaudeville, Fanny Brice, and Tom Mix.
Date: 1961-11-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Orpheum Theater
Description: Postcard of the Orpheum Theater that once stood on Baltimore Avenue between 12th and 13th streets.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Orpheum Theater
Description: Full frontal and partial side view of second theater; located at 1212 Baltimore.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1939-1958, Page p027
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 11th Street south to W. 13th Street and from Wyandotte east to Baltimore, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1939/1958
Object Type: Map

Title: Muehlebach Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Muehlebach Hotel.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Orpheum Theater
Description: Exterior, street level view of the Orpheum Theater located at 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. According to the sign on the front of the building when this picture was taken, the theater was closed and people were being referred to the Mainstreet Theater. The sign also says the Orpheum was to re-open in August.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Over Three Million Dollars
Description: Article referring to the new Orpheum Theater as one of the country's finest theaters, facing Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1914-03-14
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Orpheum Theater Profile
Date: 2003

Title: Orpheum and Mainstreet Theaters Christmas Party
Description: Christmas party held at the Hotel President for the Orpheum and Mainstreet Theaters. The walls of the banquet room are decorated in pseudo-Aztec motifs.
Date: 1927-12-26
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Early Kansas City Theaters
Description: This book contains information about early theater in Kansas City, including facts concerning the local theaters of the 19th and early 20th century. These theaters include: Auditorium, Century, Coates Opera House, Folly, Frank's Hall, Gilliss Opera House, Grand Opera House, Mainstreet, Ninth Street, Orpheum, Shubert, Standard, Theatre Comique, Warder Grand Opera House, and Willis Wood. Other entertainment venues mentioned include: Crystal Palace, Cyclorama, and Convention Hall (where "The Miracle" stage production was held). Also vaudeville is discussed in the book. See book index for pages.
Date: 2007
Object Type: Book Section