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Title
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Star Witness
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Description
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Article about Kansas City Star editor Roy Roberts's objections to the impending decision against the paper for advertising monopoly.
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Date
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1955-02-28
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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He Hitched a Star to His Wagon
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Description
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Biographical article about William Rockhill Nelson, the founder and editor of the Kansas City Star. Includes details about the aftermath of his death and reviewing his career as a prominent Kansas Citian from 1880 to 1915, including an explanation for his reasoning behind not using photographs in the paper on page 1042.
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Date
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1915-05-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Charles I. Blood
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Description
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Kansas City Star and Times city-editor and writer Charles I. Blood seated behind his desk. A handwritten message on the image reads: Jan. 19, 1960. To E.B.S. Charles I. Blood.
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Date
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1960-01-19
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Bradbury Pianos
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Description
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Advertising card for Bradbury Pianos showing four dogs wearing eye glasses sitting with legs crossed reading newspapers. Front of card says: "Astonishing!." The Bradbury Piano again selected for the White House. This fifth term beats the records. 'The Sweetest and best Tuned Piano Made is the Bradbury.'" Back of card has an image of two babies looking at a piece of music and says: "Freeborn G. Smith, Man'fr of Bradbury Pianos, 95 Fifth Ave., New York. / The Bradbury Piano. True to Nature / Factories: New York. Brooklyn. Leominster. Warerooms: Chicago. Kansas City. Philadelphia. Washington.." No Kansas City address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Kansas City Star Building
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Description
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View looking northeast of the Kansas City Star building at 18th Street and Grand Avenue. Cars parked along Grand Avenue can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Exterior View Kansas City Star. Jarvies Hunt - Architect, Peter Larson - Builder, Haydite Concrete in Addition.
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Date
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1925~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Star
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Description
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Interior view of the Kansas City Star press room addition. Newspaper production equipment can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Press Room Addition - Haydite Concrete, Kansas City Star, Jarvies Hunt - Architect, Peter Larson - Builder.
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Date
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1925~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC225 Kansas City Star Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Kansas City Star newspaper company was founded in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel Morss. Nelson and his family went on to retain ownership of the company until their deaths in 1926 when ownership was bought by employees of the newspaper. Local stockholders owned the newspaper until 1977 when it was sold to corporate ownership. This collection, made up of a portion of the company’s records, documents the history of the newspaper and its founding family.
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Date
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1829/2007
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC208 S. J. Ray Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains original artwork and other materials relating to S. J. Ray, who worked as editorial cartoonist for The Kansas City Star from 1931 to 1963. Ray’s cartoons depict a wide array of historical figures and events, including New Deal politics, World War II, and the Cold War.
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Date
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1921/2005
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Transition - Died
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Description
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One paragraph of obituary for Henry Haskell, "78, editor of The Kansas City Star since 1928; dying in Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 20," and winning two Pulitzer Prizes during his 54 years with the staff.
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Date
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1952-09-01
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Lena Rivers Smith: The Lady and the Legacy
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Description
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Profile chronicling the life and journalism career of Lena Rivers Smith. Smith's early life and education are covered. Her time working for the Kansas City Call newspaper and WDAF-TV, where she was the first African American to work for the station's news staff, is also described.
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Date
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1978-11
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Coca-Cola Building and Vicinity
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Description
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Promotional drawing produced by the Ennis-Edwards Realty Company and included within a booklet promoting the advantages of the Coca-Cola Building. The illustration highlights the building's close proximity to the Liberty Memorial, Union Station, rail lines, major streets, the downtown hotel district, the retail district, the office building district, and the headquarters of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Western Journalism
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Description
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Portraits and descriptions of Morrison Munford and Robert Van Horn in an article about western journalism in 1888. Description of Kansas City journalists and newspapers, including Munford as editor of the Kansas City Times (arriving here in 1871 from Tennessee) and Van Horn as editor of the Kansas City Journal (arriving here in the 1850s). Also a general description of the cultures of Kansas City and Saint Louis (former home of Joseph Pulitzer), etc.
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Date
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1888-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
