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Title: Saint Mary's Hospital
Description: Partial frontal and full side view, looking northeast.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Saint Luke's Hospital
Description: Distant frontal view.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Saint Margaret's Hospital
Description: Full frontal and side view.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Saint Luke's Hospital
Description: Distant frontal view; located at 44th and Mill Creek Parkway.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Saint Luke's Hospital
Description: Close-up view of hospital entrance.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nelson Art Gallery Exterior
Description: Full frontal view, looking north.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nelson Art Gallery Exterior
Description: Partial frontal view of north façade, looking south.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Description: Looking northeast from 47th; approximately bounded on west by Oak, on north by 43rd, on east by Rockhill Road.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Description: Two different full frontal views, looking north.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Description: Looking north from 47th Street; approximately bounded on west by Broadway, north by 39th, and east by Troost.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Description: Looking northeast from 48th Street; approximately bounded on west by Warwick, north by Armour, and east by the Paseo.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Kansas City Art Institute: Bulwark of Free Expression
Description: Description of the art school "founded in 1887" and located on a large campus near the Plaza.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Description: Full side view of Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church, located on the southwest corner of 52nd and Troost (1001 E. 52nd).
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City's Famous Country Club Plaza District and Plaza!
Description: [R]ecognized as 'America's greatest outdoor art gallery'.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City--An Illustrated Review of Its Progress and Importance
Description: Entry describing the Gate City general storage and commission business at 1213-1215 Saint Louis Avenue.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Aerial View of Penn Valley Park
Description: Aerial view looking north near 29th and Wyandotte. Shows military barracks south of Post Office and west of Saint Mary's Hospital.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: ...Jean Laffite and Joseph Robidoux
Description: Portraits and biographical article about the correspondence starting in 1818 between Joseph Robidoux (a Saint Louis businessman and founder of Saint Joseph, Missouri of French descent) and Jean Laffite (a prominent pirate in the New Orleans area moving to Saint Louis as a gun-powder merchant, also of French descent).
Date: 1950
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Joseph Robidoux. ..
Description: Portrait, photos, and biographical article about Joseph Robidoux (1783-1868), "the founder of St. Joseph, Mo." and oldest son of a prominent businessman living in Saint Louis "in a handsome home where the first session of the Territory of Missouri was held." Starting out as a western trader on "a trip with Captain Ashley up the Missouri River in 1799. ..establish[ing] a post at the junction of the Kaw River, later Kansas City, Mo." before establishing posts at the site of Saint Joseph, Missouri and laying out that town in the early 1840s.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Purd Wright
Description: Biographical description of Purd Wright, "a young printer," who came to Saint Joseph, Missouri, about 1877 from Cameron, Missouri. Later Wright became "the librarian of the first public library in St. Joseph and the state of Missouri." In 1900 he became librarian of the public library in Kansas City.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book Section

Title: My American Journal
Description: First chapter or part of the book about the stay of French author Andre Maurois in Kansas City in 1945-1946 as a guest lecturer at the University of Kansas City, residing at the Epperson House. Descriptions of the culture of Kansas City as an American city (as well as a bit about Columbia, Missouri, and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) from a European perspective, including art appreciation, climate and geography, race relations, etc., and with numerous references to famous authors and works of literature, often used in describing Kansas City.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

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