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Title: Thrills of a Century: Starlight Theatre, Swope Park
Description: Photos and text about "the Centennial spectacle, 'Thrills of a Century,'" a costume drama about the history of Kansas City.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Well Tended Parks and Boulevards Enrich Kansas City's Beauty
Description: Description of the system in general and how it developed.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Q.: Is the Oldham Road That Runs Through Swope Park Named for the Founder of Oldham's Sausage?
Description: Ruby Oldham of Lee's Summit thinks the road in Swope Park was named for a relative of her late husband, Charles Quincy Oldham, the founder of Oldham's Farm Sausage Inc. Kansas City records don't say. However, another Oldham Road, in Lee's Summit, was named for the sausage maker, who served on the Lee's Summit City Council and was mayor from 1956 to 1964. Oldham began his sausage business in 1940, his wife said. ..By the early 1950s, Oldham was selling sausage throughout Missouri. He retired from the company in 1972 and died in January 1980.
Date: 1993-11-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Thomas Swope
Description: Biography of Swope and description of the memorial.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Book Section

Title: East Meyer Boulevard Area Plan: Area Plan 23
Description: Land use, long-range goals, and maps of the East Meyer Boulevard residential district, bounded by Troost, 63rd, the Big Blue River, and 79th-75th Streets.
Date: 1977
Object Type: Report

Title: The Negro in Kansas City
Description: 1944 Survey of African-American community in Kansas City designed to "bring to light facts regarding problems which face the Negro in Kansas City, Missouri, and which are not commonly known by the public." Authors were the Broadside Study Group of League of Women Voters. Topics include education, health and welfare, housing and sanitation, cultural and recreation facilities, labor and employment, and public service. The survey ends with recommendations and a resources / bibliography section.
Date: 1944-04
Object Type: Book

Title: The Question Box: Please Give the Height of the Flagpole in Swope Park
Description: The flagpole just east of the main shelter house [of Swope Park] is 175 feet high. The pole, given to the city by the late Jacob L. Loose, originally was 200 feet high and the highest unguyed flagpole in the world.
Date: 1955-08-30

Title: American Legion Memorial
Description: View of the American Legion Memorial located near the Meyer Boulevard entrance to Swope Park.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas H. Swope Memorial
Description: View of the Thomas H. Swope Memorial located in Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. No print image, negative and digital only.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: A group of young people and adults pose for a photo in what is likely Swope Park. The caption reads, "Staff of Knights' Spear 10/1/'39."
Date: 1939-10-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Two young women sit on a teeter-totter or seesaw at a playground. The photo was likely taken in Swope Park.
Date: 1939-02-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Two young men stand on top of a stone structure in Swope Park.
Date: 1938-11-11
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Photograph of a young woman swinging a baseball bat. The photo was likely taken in Swope Park.
Date: 1939-02-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: A young woman swings a baseball bat as another looks on. The photo was likely taken in Swope Park.
Date: 1939-02-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swope Park Shelter House
Description: View of the shelter house at Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri with two cars in the foreground.
Date: 1916-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Young adults gather around an outdoor grill in Swope Park.
Date: 1938-11-11
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Five young women pose in front of a car in Swope Park.
Date: 1938-11-11
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Young adults gather around an outdoor grill in Swope Park.
Date: 1938-11-11
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Magic of The Beanstalk
Description: Feature article on Kansas City's Community Gardens. The Beanstalk, the new children's garden in Swope Park, allows kids--and adults--''to see a perfectly kept garden of vegetables and colorful flowers'' as well as learn ''about how things grow and the kinds of insects that are drawn to certain plants.'' The Kansas City Community Gardens moved to Swope Park two years ago.
Date: 2005-07-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Photograph of two young men sitting on a log in what is likely Swope Park.
Date: 1939-10-01
Object Type: Photograph

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