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Title: Interview with Mary Agnes Alderman
Description: Interview with Mary Agnes Alderman in which she discusses her career in the garment industry, including working as a buyer for a department store in Springfield, Missouri in the 1950s. She recalls modeling and managing fashion shows, traveling to New York to buy women's sportwear, and her knowledge of Kansas City garment manufacturers and stores. She discusses the changes in shopping habits and department stores, working as a teacher after moving to Kansas City, and serving Ramfis Trujillo, son of president of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo, while working at Swanson's clothing store on the Plaza. She also discusses the change in fashion to more casual dress, and expresses support and enthusiasm for the preservation of Kansas City's garment industry history.
Date: 2011-05-03
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Interview with Marianne Young
Description: Interview with Marianne Young about her life and her experience in Kansas City's garment industry. Born and raised in Germany, she discusses getting her taste for nice things from her mother and her early interest in fashion, coming to the United States on a scholarship to Northeast Missouri State University, meeting her husband, and following his job to Kansas City. She recalls her job at upscale women's clothing store Swanson's in the 1970s, working as a salesperson and helping assemble wardrobes for customers, declining offers to work as a model, and working as a buyer for DuVall's until the store closed. She discusses the fate of the various DuVall's locations in the area, and going to work at Saks on the Plaza as a personal shopper until that store closed circa 2005. She shares her opinions about the state of Kansas City clothing retailers, the change in fashion to focus on younger women, and making her wardrobe work over time.
Date: 2011-04-03
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Interview with Suzie Aron
Description: Interview with Suzie Aron about her family history in Kansas City's garment industry, beginning with her grandfather Hyman Gordon's immigration to Topeka, Kansas, and later to Kansas City. She discusses Jewish prevalence in the industry, and her family's Frances Gee Garment Company which focused primarily on uniforms for nurses and other woman-dominated professions - a direction taken because it was easier to work with all white fabric. She discusses the company being one of the first with overseas production facilities, having opened factories in Puerto Rico and Japan, as well as other aspects of the company's operations and union relationships, including her experience working on designing and branding uniforms for the fast food industry, work which eventually became the focus of the company.
Date: 2011-02-07
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: West Side of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Photograph of the west side of Country Club Plaza area, looking southwest, in 1987. The Neptune Apartments building can be seen under construction in the foreground left, and the Saks department store and Seville Square shopping center, on Nichols Road, and Skelly building, on 49th Street, occupy the center of the photograph. The Winston Churchill Apartments and Poet Apartments are pictured in the background, west of Jefferson Street.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Art Fair
Description: Elevated view looking west of the 50th annual Plaza Art Fair on Nichols Road. Festival attendees and vendor booths can be seen. The Halls department store building can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1981-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Art Fair
Description: Elevated view looking west of the 50th annual Plaza Art Fair on Nichols Road. Festival attendees and vendor booths can be seen. The Halls department store building can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1981-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Art Fair
Description: Elevated view looking west of the 50th annual Plaza Art Fair on Nichols Road. Festival attendees and vendor booths can be seen. The Halls department store building can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1981-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stan Kenton Concert at Brush Creek
Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton and his band in concert in Brush Creek in 1976. Concertgoers sit on grassy areas sloping up from the concrete creek bed. A portion of the Halls department store building, on the north side of Brush Creek, is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1976-06-27
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stan Kenton Concert at Brush Creek
Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton and his band in concert in Brush Creek in 1976. Concertgoers sit on grassy areas sloping up from the concrete creek bed. A portion of the Halls department store building, on the north side of Brush Creek, is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1976-06-27
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Map of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Tour and store directory map for the Country Club Plaza shopping center. A note records that the illustration is based on an original 1947 map and revised of January 1967. Significant Plaza buildings, shops and amenities are shown. The reverse side provides a directory of retail and service shops with addresses and telephone exchange numbers. A text description of the Country Club Plaza is also included.
Date: 1967
Object Type: Map

Title: Halls Silverware
Description: Interior view of the Halls Building located at 211 Nichols Road in the Country Club Plaza. The silverware department and customers can be seen.
Date: 1965-10-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Halls New Building
Description: View facing northeast of the Halls Building at 211 Nichols Road in the Country Club Plaza. The intersection of Central Street and Ward Parkway, a pedestrian, and parked cars can be seen.
Date: 1965-10-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Country Club Plaza Christmas Lights
Description: View looking northwest of the Sears building decorated for Christmas on the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Jones Store at 31st and Troost
Description: View of the Jones Stored, located at the northwest corner of 31st and Troost, during the opening of the store.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1020-1040 Main Street
Description: View looking southwest of the buildings that once stood at 1020-1040 Main Street. Signs for the John Taylor Dry Goods Company, Baker's Shoes, Virginia Dare, and Clarks Shoes can be seen. A trolly bus is traveling south on Main Street.
Date: 1947-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Trade Mart for Kansas City
Description: Photos, drawing, and description of the new Kansas City department store at 22nd and Grand Avenue.
Date: 1946-07-15
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Montgomery Ward Building
Description: View looking northwest of the Montgomery Ward building at N. 7th Street and Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. Cars on the streets and a pedestrian can be seen.
Date: 1938-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Early History of the Lumber Trade of Kansas City
Description: From the booklet's dedication page: "This little booklet is issued at the request pf Jay Coatsworth and Frank P. Strickland life-long friends, and is dedicated to the memory of the Kansas City Lumberman of the Eighties who have 'Crossed the Bar,' and to all others interested in the upbuilding of Kansas City, making it truly The Prophetic City. the future Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. - C. P. D. This booklet is a compilation of a series of articles written by C. P. Deatherage, and published in various issues of the Retail Lumberman, of Kansas City, beginning October 15, 1922, and ending August 1, 1923."
Date: 1924
Object Type: Book

Title: Jones Store Company
Description: Postcard of the Jones Store Company building.
Date: 1916-10-16
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Business Builders
Description: Photo and description of Mrs. J.C. McGavain, a cosmetician and proprietor of "three larges stores at respectively: 1114 Main St., suite 119; Baltimore Hotel and the ninth floor of Harzfeld Parisian Cloak Co., Eleventh and Main streets" starting about 1904.
Date: 1915-05-15
Object Type: Magazine

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