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Title: Nikoles Aleshi Store At 312 Holmes
Description: Interior view of store owned by Nikoles Aleshi, located at 312 Holmes Street in Kansas City, Missouri. View includes Mr. Aleshi behind counter.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nikoles Aleshi
Description: Portrait view of Nikoles Aleshi.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nikoles Aleshi Store
Description: Exterior view of the store, Iteli Deiri Kompani, owned by Nikoles Aleshi and the center of his Virtuana Language experiment. Includes a number of unidentified children in front.
Date: 1909
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Notes
Description: One paragraph about the "new spelling of the English language" developed by Nikolas Aleshi of Kansas City, "a much more radical change of spelling than that advocated by Roosevelt and other reformed spellers."
Date: 1911-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Nikoles Aleshi
Description: Portrait of Mr. Aleshi.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Woman and Dog
Description: Interior view of unidentified woman dressed in period costume and seated in chair in well furnished room. A dog is seated at her feet.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nikoles Aleshi and Milk Deliveries
Description: Exterior street view of the Aleshi store at 312 Holmes Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Also includes Mr. Aleshi along side his Itali Dairi Kompani delivery milk wagon, with helpers.
Date: 1909
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified Woman and Dog
Description: Interior view of unidentified woman dressed in period costume seated in a well furnished room. A dog appears at her feet.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nikoles Aleshi and His Store and Wagon
Description: Exterior view of Nikoles Aleshi and his Italy Dairy Company (Iteli Deiri Kompani) store and delivery wagon. Store was located at 312 Holmes Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1909
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Notes
Description: Brief description of the national spelling reform movement approved by President Theodore Roosevelt, highlighting Kansas City Italian immigrant Nikolas Aleshi's Virtuana System proposal. Explanation of his "niu speling eksperiment" of spelling English words more similarly to their phonetic spelling, or more closely to the way they sound.
Date: 1910-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Classroom With Virtuana Alphabet
Description: Interior view of a classroom with the Virtuana Language "alfabet" on the blackboard and a photograph of Mr. Aleshi over the door.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC27 Nikoles Aleshi Virtuana Language Collection Finding Aid
Description: Nicholas Aleshi came to Kansas City around 1900. He owned a dairy at 66th and Belinder and a grocery store at 312 Holmes. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, reports, business accounts, manuscripts, etc., of Nikoles Aleshi and his Virtuana Language System. Included are various items using the Virtuana language.
Date: 1906/1977
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Nikoles Aleshi and Store
Description: Exterior view of the store at 312 Holmes Street owned by Mr. Aleshi and where the Virtuana Language began. Mr. Aleshi may be standing in the doorway.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nikoles Aleshi and the Judiciary Committee
Description: Interior view of men identified on the back of photo as the Judiciary Committee and Nikoles Aleshi seated at a table. Includes photograph on wall of U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt and George Washington. Names of men at table beside Aleshi include: Karl A. Nalund, Robert L. Rozzalle, Josef G. Lanser, Dominik Donnisi, and Josef P. God.
Date: 1908~
Object Type: Photograph

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