Education

Title: Class of 1898, Kansas City High School
Description: Mounted, portrait photographs of graduates with inscription, "Class of 1898, Kansas City High-School." Names are included with each graduate. Kansas City High School is believed to be the same as Central High School in the Kansas City School District.
Date: 1898
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Berton Roueché
Description: Senior portrait of writer Berton Roueché Jr., class of 1924, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. Roueché went on to work for The New Yorker magazine and wrote several medical mystery novels.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: William N. Deramus III
Description: Senior portrait of future railroad executive Willam N. Deramus, class of 1934, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. Deramus would go on to head the Chicago, Great Western Railway, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
Date: 1932
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Class of 1896, Kansas City High School
Description: Mounted, portrait photographs of graduates with inscription, "Kansas City High School, Class of '96." Just below is, "D. P. Thomson. Photographer. Established. 1873." Names are included with each graduate. Kansas City High School is believed to be the same as Central High School in the Kansas City School District.
Date: 1896~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Forrest L. Hart and College Friends
Description: Exterior view of a group of young college friends lined up with their landlady/housemother. Identified as "this is the bunch that rooms here and the landlady (Mrs. Norris)." Forrest Hart is identified as fifth from the left. All shown are believed to have been students at the Kansas City Veterinary College.
Date: 1918~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Veterinary College Class
Description: Interior view of a group of six male veterinary students studying what appears to be a partial horse carcass hanging from the ceiling. Believed to be part of a class taught at the Kansas City Veterinary School, which is listed in the 1917 Kansas City Directory as located at 1330-1336 E. 15th Street.
Date: 1918~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ruth Warrick
Description: Senior portrait of actress Ruth Warrick, Class of 1934, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. Warrick went on to make her film debut in "Citizen Kane" and starred in the soap opera "All My Children."
Date: 1934
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lester Milgram
Description: Senior portrait of future grocer and businessman Lester Milgram, class of 1934, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Missouri. Milgram went on to become president of Milgram's Food Stores, Inc.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Henry Bloch
Description: Senior portrait of future businessman Henry W. Bloch, Class of 1939, Southwest High School, Kansas City, Mo. Bloch would go on to found H&R Block with his brother Richard (Class of 1942) in 1955.
Date: 1939
Object Type: Photograph