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Title: Centering Pole
Description: An Episcopal priest, talks about his experiences as curate at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in the 1960s, a time when the Civil Rights movement, the war in Viet Nam and other social changes were transforming the church.
Date: 2004
Object Type: Book

Title: Gospels in Glass: Stained Glass Windows in Missouri Churches
Description: Photos and descriptions of stained glass windows and their artists and craftsmanship in various churches in Kansas City (Broadway United Methodist Church, Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Redemptorist Catholic Church, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Second Presbyterian Church, and Unity Temple on the Plaza), Independence (First Christian Church), and Conception, Missouri (Conception Abbey).
Date: 2000
Object Type: Book

Title: Paul Kirk
Description: Brief item describing Paul Kirk, the "Baron of Barbecue." The author writes that Kirk's day job as head chef at Trinity Lutheran Hospital has not prevented him and his partner Steve Holbrook from winning "most of the major competitions at least once."
Date: 2005
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: Photos and bio of Edna Scotten Billings, or Edna Billings (1900-1983), a music teacher and "an organist who played for over 50 years at Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and 20 years at Temple B'nai Jehudah," born in Kentucky and coming to Kansas City in 1902, with residence at 1205 West 20th Street.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: Biographical sketch of Ethel Ingalls Blair, or Ethel Blair (1868-1958), gardener and landscaper "[t]ransform[ing] the weedy, untended grounds of the Grace and Holy Trinity Church" at 13th and Broadway "into a garden of inexplicable beauty." Born in Atchison, Kansas, as "the daughter of John James Ingalls" the Kansas senator, with photo of the church and gardens.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City--An Illustrated Review of Its Progress and Importance
Description: Description of the business of H. Probst, an architect with offices in the "Walworth Building, 188 West [6th Street]," a building designed by him. Presumably a native of Germany emigrating to Kansas City in 1880 and designing the following buildings: (1) the Walworth Building at 118 West 6th Street, (2) "the Trinity Church," (3) "the German Lutheran Church," (4) "the Children's Lutheran Church," (5) "the Jewish Synagogue" on Oak Street, (6) the Meyer Brothers Drug Company building at 5th and Washington Streets, (7) "the Clifton Hotel on Walnut street," (8) "the residence of A. R. Meyers, Independence avenue and Krey street, etc."
Date: 1886-05
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 1]
Description: Volume one of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 3]
Description: Volume three of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 2]
Description: Volume two of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

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