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Title: United States Department of Agriculture
Description: File containing reprints of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by the Kansas City Star about the history of inefficiency of the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture).
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Union Cemetery
Description: Photograph, circa 1990s, of Union Cemetery, which was established in 1857 for Civil War soldiers and now includes other wars' veterans.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4506 J. C. Nichols Parkway
Description: Photograph, circa 1990s, of a J. C. Nichols Parkway apartment building known as Huntington Place. Built in the early 1920s, the building was possibly designed by architect Nelle Peters and built by Bufford G. Mitchell.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gravestone, Union Cemetery
Description: Photograph, circa 1990s, of a 1803 Union Cemetery gravestone of Kuni Kruger, wife of Freidrich Kruger, who was a Civil War veteran. Union Cemetery was established for Civil War soldiers and now includes other wars' veterans. The marker was placed by the Woodmen Circle, now Woodmen Life Company.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gem Theater
Description: Photograph of the Gem Theater at 1615 East 18th Street in the early 1990s. Built in 1912, the theater operated as a movie theater until 1960. It was refurbished into a performing arts theater, opening in 1997. The murals in the front windows were painted circa 1988 by artist Frederick Crawford.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4712 Broadway Boulevard
Description: Photograph, circa 1990s, of architectural details of a building on the Country Club Plaza that housed a store called Mailliard's. Mailliard's incorporated in 1967, sold fine men and boy's clothing and closed in the mid-1990s. An Apple store opened in the space in 2004.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gillis Building
Description: Photograph of the Gillis Building at 500 Walnut Street, the southwest corner of 5th and Walnut, in the early 1990s. Built on the site of the Gillis Opera House, the Gillis Building opened 1926, and was the home to Grandpa's Saloon and Grandma's Pie Pantry at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1715 Summit Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 1715 Summit Street in the early 1990s. The building opened as a theater circa 1913, and last served that purpose in 1955. Old World Antiques occupied the former Summit Theater building beginning in 1986 until the early 2000s. Prior to the opening of the antique store, the building had also served as a warehouse and manufacturing location after the theater closed.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3121-23 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a commercial and residential building being demolished at 3121-23 Main Street in the early 1990s. The entirety of the block was later razed to make way for the construction of a YMCA Children's Center Campus in the 1990s. The Boatmen's Bank building, on the southwest corner of 31st and Main, can be seen in the background.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Radisson Hotel
Description: Photograph, circa early 1990s, of the Hotel Phillips building at 106 W. 12th Street. Built in 1929, the building started out as Hotel Phillips and changed hands several times, only to come around to being the Hotel Phillips again in the early 2000s. The Hotel Phillips was listed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1978 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. At the time of the photo, it was operating as the Radisson Suite Hotel Kansas City.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Civil War and the Ozarks
Description: Pictorial map diagramming major troop movements and locating battle sites, burned towns, military headquarters and outposts, bushwhackers, and agricultural communes in southern Missouri, northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma during the Civil War. A summary of principal events is included, along with a list of battles, engagements, skirmishes for each county which saw action.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Map

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