Children seated at tables inside the Swinney Branch Library, located inside the E. F. Swinney Public School on W. 47th Street, between Holly and West Prospect Place (Jarboe).
Article with photos about the first women members of the Olympic Games, beginning in 1928, with "two Missourians, Catherine Maguire of Pacific and Delores 'Dee' Boeckmann [or Dee Boeckmann] of St. Louis," both sprinters competing that year in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
View of mausoleum called The Temple near the entrance of Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. Carleton Coon and Eula Coon Stookey's remains are located here.
Photo, caption, and article about the teaching of industrial arts in Kansas City public schools to "help children relate in a practical and concrete way to the information they learn in nearly all their subjects" especially industrial and manufacturing-related skills.
A color glass plate positive photograph of children swimming at a casting and wading pool in Gillham Park at the southeast corner of 41st Street and Kenwood Avenue.
View looking north along the Mill Creek Boulevard path from 42nd Street. Houses can be seen in the background. Two individuals standing together and a child can be seen.
Article describes a campaign to enlist 100,000 adults to intervene in the lives of Kansas City schoolchildren through programs like YouthFriends, Big Brothers Big Sisters, YMCA Young Achievers, LNESC, and Kauffman Scholars. It focuses particularly on Kansas City School Board member Alrick Leonard West who benefited from an adult mentor and now is a big brother to Josh Lockhart.
Photograph of the eastern side of the 3900 block of Main Street, circa 1982, after the razing of the Werby Building at the north end of the block in 1979. The blue facade of a Salvation Army thriftstore can be seen at 3927 Main, located in the former Warwick Theater. The Southwell Building, at 3941 Main, is home to Harling's Upstairs bar and music venue. Clint's Comics, at 3943 Main, is surrounded by other shops and businesses. The Netherlands Hotel building, on the north side of 39th Street, can be seen in the background of the image.
Discusses Debora Green's argument that she was not competent when she entered a "no contest" plea agreement in her trial for murdering her children on October 24, 1995 and attempting to murder her husband and her efforts to obtain a new trial.