Finding Aids

Title: SC92 Dory DeAngelo Papers Finding Aid
Description: Dory DeAngelo is a local author, historian, researcher, and longtime resident of Kansas City's Old Northeast neighborhood. She has written numerous books and articles about Kansas City history and has been actively involved in local theater, both as a performer and director. This collection was donated by DeAngelo. It consists of primarily newspaper articles - written by DeAngelo - covering a variety of topics related to Kansas City history, especially the Northeast community, local theater and prominent Kansas City people and businesses. Theater programs, photographs, and miscellaneous biographical materials are also included in the collection.
Date: 1950~/2000~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC144 Percy Shelley Collection
Description: This collection contains ephemera relating to Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Date: 1816/1893
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC96 Local Zines, Mini-Art, and Mail Art Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection includes zines, mini-comics, and mail art created by local Kansas Citians. Zines (pronounced "zeens" as in the word magazine) are self-published works of art and writing where the author creates the content, layout, and has a large hand in the production of the final product. Mini-comics are similar to zines in that they are self-published comics produced and distributed by the artists. Mail art is a form of self-expression that takes place through mail correspondence where artists share collages, artwork, and writing with each other. This is an open collection that continues to grow as donations are acquired from local artists and zine collectors.
Date: 1999/
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC156 Jack London Papers Finding Aid
Description: The Jack London Papers collection consists of a facsimile letter London wrote to Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company in 1900. The letter describes London's childhood, education, and early travels.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC61 Charles P. Deatherage Book Manuscripts Finding Aid
Description: Mr. Deatherage founded the Deatherage Lumber Company in Kansas City in 1878. After retiring in 1919, he began a career as a historian, publishing his first volume of Kansas City history in 1928. Volumes two and three were never published. Mr. Deatherage died in 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri.The collection includes the handwritten manuscript of the final two volumes of the projected three-volume history of Kansas City, Missouri. Volume one was published in 1928 and titled: "Early History of Greater Kansas City Missouri and Kansas; The Prophetic City At the Mouth of the Kaw." The manuscript includes all of volume two, and a small portion of volume three. Volume two, entitled "Municipal History of Greater Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas," covering 1853-1928, is made up of 30 chapters. Subjects include city government, churches, hospitals, fraternal organizations, transportation, schools, cultural activities, parks and boulevards, and disasters. Volume three is unchaptered and includes information on the lumber trade, architects, expositions and fairs, the insurance business, livestock trade, and bridges. It was intended to be an industrial history of Kansas City, covering the same time period as volume two.
Date: 1930~/1939~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC11 Robert V. Harman Papers Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, and other documents of Robert V. Harman, a local high school civics teacher and textbook author, that cover the span of years from 1905 to 1956.
Date: 1905/1956
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC49 Loula Grace Erdman Book Manuscript Finding Aid
Description: Native Missourian Loula Grace Erdman was a prolific author, writing primarily young adult historical fiction.The 336-page typewritten manuscript of the book "The Short Summer" is a work of young adult fiction with holographic corrections by the author in pen and pencil. Also included are photocopies of two articles from the "Kansas City Star" about the book and the author. A copy of the published book, which appears to have been taken from the library's circulating collection, is with the collection. First sheet of manuscript reads: "Working Manuscript The Short Summer By Loula Grace Erdman, 1958."
Date: 1958
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC107 Evan Connell Papers Preliminary Inventory
Description: Collection consists of two letters addressed locally to Lee [Reeder], dated January 30 and October 29, year unknown, from Evan Connell, the noted Kansas City novelist. Mr. Connell speaks of his literary work, impressions of places he had been, as well as mutual friends of the two.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: SC30-14 Louis O. Honig Scrapbooks Finding Aid
Description: Three scrapbooks compiled by Honig that has newspaper clippings, photos, etc., and information on Westport, Kansas City, and places in the state of Missouri. Louis Honig was the author of "Westport: Gateway to the Early West" (BROWSING MVSC 977.8411 H77W ) as well as a book about Jim Bridger (MVSC 92 B851H).
Date: 1855/1951
Object Type: Finding Aid

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