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Title: P21 Kansas City School District, Department of Visual Instruction Glass Slides Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains 388 items in black and white with 121 photographs and 267 glass slides. The glass slides were prepared as instructional material for the Kansas City, Missouri School District by their Department of Visual Instruction. Subjects include Kansas City as well as the state of Missouri. The Kansas City related slides include local buildings, sculpture, charitable organizations, parks, streets, the stockyards, and other famous landmarks. Each slide includes a typed identification and some are dated. Those dated are generally from 1935 to 1940.
Date: 1935~/1940~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P32 Richard Corliss Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: Richard Corliss was born in Springfield, Massachussetts, in 1915 and moved to Kansas City in 1944. He worked as a freelance photographer, capturing scenes for sale to local news agencies. His collection consists of 46 photographs of varying sizes. Most are black and white. The photographs, shot between approximately 1945 and 1960, are of local personalities and visiting celebrities, accidents, disasters, and other news events. Notable are several photographs of the Truman family after their return to Independence.
Date: 1945~/1960~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P8 Photograph Scrapbook Collection #1 Finding Aid
Description: The photographer(s) and originator of the scrapbook of 94 photographs of varying sizes are unknown. The images provide scenes of the Board of Trade building under construction as well as exterior and interior views of the glass Exposition Building. Early transportation is depicted by bridges, street cars, trains, railroad stations, etc. The grading of the city, riverfront views, downtown street scenes, groups of people, parades and other special events are also captured in this collection.
Date: 1870~/1889~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC166 Municipal Auditorium Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains 35 black and white 8 x 10 photographs from a photo album by the Harkins Commercial Photo Company in Kansas City. The images are of interior and exterior views of the Municipal Auditorium taken around the time it was built in 1934-1935.
Date: 1934/1935
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P7 Hughes Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection of amateur quality snapshots show familiar local landmarks like Union Station, the Kansas City Museum, Swope Park, etc. Also included are a few from the Kansas City, Kansas area.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P24 Photograph Scrapbook #3 Historic Kansas City Finding Aid
Description: The scrapbook contains 72 various-sized, second-generation black and white prints of early Kansas City riverfront views. Included are scenes of the grading of the bluffs for streets, early commercial and residential buildings, street views, and some early railroad development. Some views of the Hannibal Bridge construction events and the Gillis House are also included. Written identification appears on most of the photos.
Date: 1865~/1880~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P23 Native American/Western Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains over over 140 glass plate negatives, cabinet cards, and assorted prints. The images are primarily of Native American peoples, cowboys, and "Boomer" settlers in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the late-1880s through the early-1900s. The principal tribes represented include the Ponca, Kiowa, Comanche, Sac and Fox, Otoe, Pawnee and Apache. Many of the images were taken by prominent western photographers of the period including Thomas Croft, William S. Prettyman, George Cornish, and William E. Irwin. There are also fifteen photographs of Sioux Indians and U.S. soldiers taken by the Northwestern Photo Company during the 1890/91 conflict at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
Date: 1880~/1901~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P5 William Hyde Photograph Collection Finding Aid Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains 67 photographs of late 19th Century Kansas City by local amateur photographer William Hyde. The photographs show scenes in Kansas City, Missouri and Bonner Springs, Kansas.
Date: 1880~/1900~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P28 Judge Elmo M. Hargrave Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Hargrave collection of 173 black and white 8 x10 in. photographs depict scenes primarily in and around downtown Kansas City, Missouri. They were originally created to document accident sites for later use as evidence in lawsuits people had filed against the city. Hargrave recognized the intrinsic historical value of these images and received permission to save them from destruction. After his death, his close friend Joe Zenitsky contacted the Library to make arrangements for providing these photos to Library customers and to users of the World Wide Web. The bulk of the photographs date from the 1920s. Because of their original intent, they provide a unique perspective on the traditional views of streetscapes, businesses, residences, parks, and other locales.Elmo M. Hargrave was born in Kansas City in 1918. After attending Manual High School, he enlisted in the United States Army. During World War II he suffered severe injuries to his chest and throat, damaging his vocal cords. After teaching himself to speak again, he began to study the field of law to practice speaking. He had a long career as a public servant, eventually rising to the position of Municipal Judge. Judge Hargrave retired in 1983 and died 14 years later.
Date: 1920~/1945~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P34-4 Miscellaneous Landmarks Commission Photographs Finding Aid
Description: The Miscellaneous Landmarks Commission Collection contains images produced by various Kansas City, Missouri city departments during the 1920s through the 1980s. This subcollection is a part of the Landmarks Commission Collection (P34).
Date: 1920~/1989~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P9 Curtiss-Wright Flying Service Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains 57 black and white 8" x 10" photographs housed in one box. Views include downtown area, West bottoms, riverfront area, industrial areas, midtown area including Union Station and Liberty Memorial, etc. Also included are photos of the Fairfax and Municipal Airport area, college campus scenes, and some rural areas.
Date: 1920~/1940~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P6 Willis Castle Memorial Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains 340 black and white, 8" x 10" photographs. Many of them were a part of the Department of Welfare, Kansas City, Missouri. The focus of this collection is on people and activities, especially neighborhood and children's activities. Subjects include the City Market, Municipal Auditorium, various parks, and numerous unidentified street scenes. City officials of the time are found in many of the photos. Willis Castle was employed by the city of Kansas City, being Superintendent of City Markets and Broadway Bridge from 1975-1977.
Date: 1920~/1950
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P12 Henry D. Green Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: This collection is composed of 69 black and white photographs of varying sizes and nine sketches and features business buildings compiled in scrapbook form by Henry D. Green in 1926-1928. Most of the pictures have a letterhead and logo of the company accompanying the picture. Besides office buildings, there are a few photographs of banks, hotels, and theaters.
Date: 1926/1929
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P25 Dorothea Eldridge Slide Collection Finding Aid
Description: A group of 108 color slides of images of Kansas City from the 1950s and 1960s, taken by Eldridge, an amateur photographer. The photos include buildings, fountains, hospitals, rooftop views of downtown (including riverfront areas), Municipal Airport, Richards Gebaur Air Force Base, shopping centers, streets, Union Station, and the West Bottoms. Black and white prints and negatives and two color photographs have been made from some of the slides.
Date: 1957/1968
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P13 Ice Houses Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection was originally a scrapbook entitled Description of City Ice Company of Kansas City Properties. It contains 50 black and white photographs as well as a typed descriptive page. It was dated Dec. 1932, Book No.4. The ice houses were located in Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas; North Kansas City, Missouri; and Omaha, Nebraska.
Date: 1920~/1932~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P29 Zeldin Collection of Journal-Post Glass Negatives Finding Aid
Description: The 389 black and white negatives originated with the "Kansas City Journal Post" newspaper. The collection also includes 349 8" x 10" black and white photographs. All the images reflect a newspaper's interest and visual coverage for its stories and news items of the day. The majority were taken in the 1930s and include numerous aviation-related photos and celebrities such as Jean Harlow, Charles and Anne Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, Morris Fishbein, Eddie Cantor, Richard Byrd, and many others. The photos were purchased by the donor's grandmother at a sale shortly after the newspaper ceased publication in 1942. They remained in the Zeldin family until donated to the Special Collections department by Richard Zeldin. October 4, 1928, the "Kansas City Journal" and the "Kansas City Post" merged and became the "Kansas City Journal-Post." It reverted to the original name, "Kansas City Journal," again in 1938 and ceased publication March 31, 1942.
Date: 1920/1942~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P26 Transportation Photograph Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: The collection includes 549 negatives and 318 original prints of images taken in the 1910s focusing on railroads and transportation and rural and urban life. The geographic scope is the Midwest, primarily Missouri and Kansas. The railroad photographs pertain to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad line. Scenes of both eastern Jackson County and Kansas City are common. The most striking features are the modes of transportation used at the time: the railroads, the newly evolving automobile, the street car, the interurban to Excelsior Springs, river boats, and an early airplane taking off in Overland Park.
Date: 1910/1917
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC165 Mary Lou Eisert Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains photographs showing flood damage to residences and buildings in the Kansas City, Kansas area and a permit for Mary Lou Eisert to enter the flood area to regain property from her residence at 628 S. Coy.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P4 Frank Ford Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: The collection's 117 developed photographs and 51 glass plate negatives show scenes from around the turn of the twentieth century by local amateur photographer, Frank S. Ford. They include photographs which detail local events as well as rural, pastoral, and human interest views.
Date: 1890~/1915~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC123 D. M. Nigro Collection Finding Aid
Description: The D. M. Nigro Collection consists of publicity materials, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs created by or relating to Dr. D. M. Nigro of Kansas City. Nigro was a medical doctor, sports enthusiast, world traveler, photographer, and an active member of the Democratic Party and the Italian-American community. The collection includes approximately 500 photographs.
Date: 1944/1999
Object Type: Finding Aid

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