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Title: Somewhere over the Rainbow: Children of the Orphan Trains
Description: Article about trains of orphan children arriving in Kansas from the East Coast between 1854 and 1930, with photos and description of causes and results of the phenomenon, mostly due to "the social ills of overpopulated living."
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Children in the Garden of James Neal Foster and Sadie Ross Foster
Description: An autochrome photograph of the grandchildren of James Neal Foster in his garden.
Date: 1932-06-24
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Land Ephraim House Cleared in 1837 Site of Home for Neglected Children
Description: Photo, illustration, and article about the homestead of Ephraim House, south of Independence at 5100 South Noland Road in Kansas City, converted in the 1970s into "the Evangelical Children's Home." Description of Ephraim's life and career, born in Kentucky in 1807 and coming to Clay County, Missouri, in 1827 before arriving in Jackson County in 1836 (to marry Irene West, daughter of James West), settling on his farm and supposedly killed by Quantrill's men about 1861 despite being a Southern sympathizer.
Date: 1978-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Preservation is the Priority
Description: Article about the Banneker School Restoration Project. The Banneker School was built by the Parkville School District in 1885 as a one-room schoolhouse to educate the children of freed slaves in Platte County.
Date: 2015-04-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 43 with Santa and Children
Description: Scrapbook page containing ten advertising cards, all cut to the shape of their image, showing the following:1. Santa carrying presents (two cards).2. A girl with ringlets and a hat, holding a ball (two identical cards).3. A girl with ringlets and a hat holding a teddybear.4. A woman in lace head cover.5. Flowers, two cards with hands and doves, one with birds, and one with a book.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Children Playing
Description: View of children playing in the Guadalupe Center Club House yard. Duplicate of Photo #166, Album 1, page 77 (Barcode 10029966).
Date: 1933-10-29
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Performing Children
Description: Interior group portrait of children putting on a theatrical performance.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Performing Children
Description: Interior group portrait of children putting on a theatrical performance.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Willows Children
Description: Two snapshots of a baby and a child born at the Willows Maternity Home. The two are standing on a bed near windows. From left to right, the names recorded beneath the left photograph are: Elsie and Billy.
Date: 1917~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Sketch of My Life Written for My Children and a Buffalo Hunt in Nebraska in 1871
Description: Autobiographical booklet by Charles Fessenden Morse, or Charles Morse, a real estate and railroad businessman in Kansas City in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photos and description of his life and career, born in Boston in 1834 and moving to Kansas before coming to Kansas City in 1879. Also information about Kansas City history and his buffalo hunt in 1871 in Kansas.
Date: 1927
Object Type: Book

Title: Walnut Street Shops
Description: Photograph of the Walnut Street Shops, 12-26 East 39th Street, with windows boarded up prior to a renovation project in 1983-84. The Hyde Park Building can also be seen at the left of the image, and the Netherlands Hotel building can be seen in the background. The Netherlands was soon to undergo its own renovation and be redubbed "Hawthorne Plaza."
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view of the east side of Main Street at 40th Street, looking toward the northeast. Businesses in view include the Hotel Netherlands, Warwick Theater, Leighter's, Lerners, and a Western Auto store. A large liquor sign is situated on top of the Western Auto store.
Date: 1952-09-05
Object Type: Negative

Title: Hawthorn Trees in Bloom by Indian Lane
Description: A color glass plate positive photograph of two girls sitting under hawthorn (crataegus) trees in bloom by Brush Creek and Indian Lane.
Date: 1941-04-29
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kids and Coppers - Not in Headlines
Description: Article about community policing with respect to young people in bad neighborhoods such as the East Bottoms, employing activity groups like the Boy Scouts.
Date: 1937-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Social Legislation in Missouri
Description: Article about various new social legislation in Missouri, especially new laws about child labor and children's health, industrial workers and labor unions, other workplaces, and saloons, etc.
Date: 1907-06-22
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Children Learning That They are No Longer the Objects of Inferiority
Description: Describes the implementation of African centered education in the Kansas City Missouri Public School system.
Date: 1999-02-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Bridging the Gap: The Love Connection Lets Children and Seniors Share--and Learn--Together
Description: Cooperative experiment in bringing together elderly people from Carondelet Manor and preschoolers from the Child Development Center.
Date: 1991-12-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: He Wore Red Carnation: Moss Hunton's Gifts to Children More than Money
Description: Biographical article about James Hunton, a cousin of Colonel Thomas Swope and a friend of children in Independence and Kansas City around the turn of the century, usually wearing "a red carnation in his buttonhole," and dying in 1909.
Date: 1970
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Niles Home for Children: 100 Years of Caring and Sharing
Description: History of the community center for black children at 1911 East 23rd Street, founded in 1883 by Samuel Eason.
Date: 1982
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Safe Haven for Children Turns 140
Description: Article on the Gillis Center at 8150 Wornall Road celebrating its 140th anniversary by opening a new emergency care shelter. The new shelter has room for 10 children. Founded as part of the Women's Christian Association in 1870, the center originally provided room and board for Civil War widows and their children, and eventually transitioned into an orphanage. It became known as the Gillis Home for Children in 1900 after a donation by the estate of Mary Gillis Troost. In the early 1960s, the center shifted into becoming a long-term residential treatment facility for children.
Date: 2011-05-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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