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Title: Muffin Maker Changes Hands
Description: Wolferman's, known for its English muffins, has been acquired by Harry & David Holdings Inc., a specialty foods retailer. They acquired them from Williams Foods Inc. of Lenexa, Kansas, who had acquired Wolferman's in 1999 from the Sara Lee Corp. "Besides its well-known muffins, Wolferman's sells other breakfast gift items through its catalog and Web site." Wolferman's was founded in 1888 in Kansas City and started making the muffins in 1910.
Date: 2008-01-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Wolferman Building
Description: Full frontal view of the Wolferman Building located on the northeast corner of 59th and Main. Also shows delivery cars and men presumed to be Wolferman employees.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wolferman's Grocery Store
Description: Full frontal view of Wolferman's Grocery Store located at 317 E. 9th Street. Also shows unidentified men in front of store and Fred Wolferman in horse-drawn wagon.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wolferman Building
Description: Full frontal view of the Wolferman Building located at 1108 Walnut.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wolferman Building
Description: Full frontal and partial side view of the Wolferman Building located on the northeast corner of 59th and Main. Also shows delivery cars and men presumed to be Wolferman employees.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wolferman's Grocery Store
Description: Interior view of Wolferman's Grocery Store. Also shows unidentified men.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 6, 1917-1957, Page p816
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 58th Street south to Morningside Drive and from Brookside Boulevard east to Grand 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: Wolferman's Grocery Store
Description: Street level view of Wolferman's Grocery Store, located in the Country Club Plaza at 47th and Wyandotte streets.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Raises His Own Coffee
Description: Description of Fred Wolferman's grocery store and his company known as Dos Amigos Rubber and Coffee Co. The Dos Amigos plantation was in Mexico near the Isthmus [of Tehuantepec]. Exact location is not given. Includes two photographs of the plantation where Wolferman raised coffee to sell in his store.
Date: 1902-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 6, 1917-1945, Page p816
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 58th Street south to Morningside Drive and from Brookside Boulevard east to Grand Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1917/1945
Object Type: Map

Title: Biography of Fred Wolferman (1870-1955), Owner of Wolferman's Gourmet Grocery
Date: 2008
Object Type: Biography

Title: Much More Than Muffins
Description: Describes the offerings at the current incarnation of Wolferman's Grocrey Store.
Date: 1998-01-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Blues Parade
Description: Looking west along Armour from Main at cars lined up to honor the Kansas City Blues in a South Central Business Association parade. Also shows Wolferman's grocery store, located at 15 E. Armour.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tidbit about Wolferman's
Description: History of the Wolferman's grocery store and restaurant chain from 1888 to 1972, established by Fred Wolferman (1870-1955), giving locations of former stores.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article