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Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Theodore Case, a native of Georgia moving to Kansas City in 1853. He was a physician, later involved in real estate, city promotion and government as a journalist, postmaster, builder, lobbyist, "chair of chemistry in the Kansas City Medical College," etc.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas
Description: Photo and caption about Thomas Barker, "[p]rominent Wyandotte pioneer and the first postmaster of Wyandotte to function."
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Theodore S. Case (1832-1900), Soldier, Scientist, and Physician
Date: 2008
Object Type: Biography

Title: Obituary of Theodoric R. Bland
Description: Obituary with photograph for Theodoric C. Bland or Ted Bland, former Postmaster of Kansas City. He died on Monday, February 24, 2003, at Menorah Medical Center and was 91 years old. He earlier in his career sold real estate and the article indicates that was the first realtor to sell over one million in residential real estate in one year in Kansas City. He was postmaster from 1961 to 1979.
Date: 2003-02-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Missouri Women in History: Ann Hawkins Gentry
Description: Biography of Ann Hawkins Gentry, "the second woman in the nation to receive the official appointment of postmaster" at Columbia, Missouri.
Date: 1966-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Jesse M. Donaldson
Description: Portrait of former U.S. Postmaster General J.M. Donaldson. Donaldson served as Postmaster General from 1947 to 1953; he and his wife lived in Kansas City from 1917 to 1932, and returned from Washington, D.C. to live again in Kansas City in 1957.
Date: 1957~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Biography of Francis A. Foster (1824-1906), Postmaster and Fire Chief
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Report from the Archives, 1966
Description: Mention of the transcription of "the Diary of George Buchanan, 1838," at the archives of the Jackson County Historical Society.
Date: 1967
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 1847 Circular on Services in Independence for Trail Trekkers Turns Up in Oregon Archives
Description: Article about the circular and letter published by George Buchanan, Independence postmaster in 1847, "about the facilities of the town" of Independence, Missouri, designed as a guide for travelers to Oregon through Independence in the 1840s, with illustrations.
Date: 1981
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Hash! Stories of Old Westport
Description: Chronological list of the postmasters of the Westport area from beginning to end as a distinct political unit, 1832 to 1899, starting with Johnston Lykins, then John C. McCoy, and then William M. Chick.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book