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Title: SC104 Michael Paller's Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery Film Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains a total of 46 media items which feature motion pictures in which Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery appeared. Most of the titles are in VHS format with some DVDs and CDs included. In addition to media, the collection contains printed biographies and filmographies for the two actors as well as some other actors who appeared with them.
Date: 1931/1946
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC95 John Barber White Papers Finding Aid
Description: Born on December 8, 1847, successful lumberman John Barber White moved from New York to Missouri in 1879 to help organize the Missouri Lumber & Mining Company, headquartered in Kansas City. He worked nationally to increase conservation measures in the lumber industry. Outside of business, he was an avid genealogist and president of the Missouri Valley Historical Society from 1912 until his death on January 5, 1923. His vast personal genealogical library was donated to the Kansas City Public Library in 1933. The John Barber White Papers include materials relating to the genealogy of the White family and the genealogy collection owned by White; the lumber industry and conservation; Mrs. White's family, the Walkers; and the White's children, charitable giving, volunteer work, and social life. The collection includes correspondence, genealogical notes, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings, resolutions in memoriam, programs, speeches and statements, and the original catalog of his genealogical collection.
Date: 1896/1929
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC7 Missouri Valley Historical Society Records Finding Aid
Description: The Missouri Valley Historical Society (1913-1940) was the successor to the Kansas City Historical Society (1906-1913) and the Early Settler's Society and Historical Association (1896-1906). All these organizations focused on the history of the Kansas City area and the region in general. The Society was especially active during the presidency of John Barber White (1913-1923).The collection consists of official records, correspondence, and business records of the organization. Historical material may be found in vertical files, manuscripts, scrapbooks, etc. The collection also includes the papers of the Gold Star League which contains photographs, correspondence, and biographical sheets on soldiers of World War I from the Kansas City area.
Date: 1830/1940
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC109 Sid J. Hare Papers Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains a letter written by Sid J. Hare to Joseph Meinrath in 1926. Also included are Hare's notes from 1894 on smoke consumer device testing.
Date: 1894/1926
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC41 Robert T. Van Horn Compilation Finding Aid
Description: Robert Thompson Van Horn, 1824-1916, was an early Kansas City leader. He was a newspaper man, mayor, congressman, and civic leader. This collection of one box and 13 folders primarily contains photocopied articles or secondary material concerning Van Horn which appeared in the newspaper, books, magazines, etc.
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC31-1 Henry Van Brunt Travel Diary Finding Aid
Description: Noted as Volume XI, this approximately 200-page travel diary was kept by Henry Van Brunt during a 1901 trip through western Europe, beginning in Geneva and including descriptions of Lyons, Avignon, Nimes, Orange, London., etc.
Date: 1901
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC184 Apollo Club of Kansas City Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Apollo Club of Kansas City Collection consists of four concert programs from 1897 to 1899, as well as a photocopy of a newspaper clipping from the Kansas City World with pictures and names of club members from 1897.
Date: 1897/1899
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC132 Plaza Dinner Playhouse Finding Aid
Description: The Plaza Dinner Playhouse collection documents the company's dinner theater performances for the 1992-1993 season. The collection contains documents, press releases, correspondence, and photographs relating to publicity activities, actors, and performances for seven different productions. The collection was donated by Joe Wilson, marketing and media consultant for the theater.
Date: 1992/1993
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC15-6 Abiel Leonard and Odon Guitar Papers Finding Aid
Description: Abiel Leonard (1797-1863) was a schoolteacher, lawyer, landowner, and politician who lived in Missouri during the early years of statehood. He served in the Missouri state legislature in 1834 and was appointed to a seat on the Missouri Supreme Court in 1855. Odon Guitar (1825-1908) came to Missouri in 1827 and lived in Boone County. He was a lawyer, politician, and a brigadier general in the Civil War serving for the Union forces in Missouri. The collection covers a large span of years and includes a variety of material including correspondence, legal documents, copies of 19th-century newspapers, photographs mostly relating to the Guitar family, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, manuscripts, certificates, invitations, and other items. Of special interest are family letters, a duel contract between Abiel Leonard and Taylor Berry, Guitar's letters concerning his California gold rush venture, Guitar's Civil War dealings, and genealogy information with some written in French.
Date: 1809/1959
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC70 Youth Symphony of Kansas City Records Finding Aid
Description: The Youth Symphony of Kansas City was organized in April 1958, as an independent civic enterprise. The prospective members had to be recommended by their school music director or private music teacher. The charter states it was to be affiliated with the Kansas City Philharmonic, Missouri Federation of Music Clubs, the American Symphony Orchestra League, and the United States Youth Symphony Federation.The collection contains a number of different types of material covering the group's beginning and formative years, 1958-1970, including concert programs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, board minutes and budget reports. Other items include brochures, some of the group's publications, press releases, circulars/flyers, membership lists, a historical sketch, notices, photographs, and other types of miscellaneous items. Newspaper clippings provide coverage of the group's trip to Chicago in 1963, to Washington, D.C., and the World's Fair in New York in 1964, and to Barcelona, Spain, in 1969.
Date: 1958/1970
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC30-12 Reverend Robert R. Lakas, S. J., Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: The Rev. Robert R. Lakas was born in 1917. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1935 and taught at Rockhurst College from 1955 until his death in 1974. This collection consists mainly of photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles, programs, and typescripts about Fr. Lakas. There are also nine black and white and two color photographs with accompanying information.
Date: 1965~/1974~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC32 George Kessler Collection Finding Aid
Description: This one box collection includes 16 landscape drawings done primarily by George Kessler, dated 1910 - 1916 and covering not only Penn Valley Park and North Terrace Park in Kansas City but also projects in China, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, St. Joseph, St. Louis, etc. It also includes two microfilm reels of official correspondence to and from the Board of Park Commisssioners, held in the same box as the drawings.
Date: 1895/1923
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC54 James F. Spalding Papers Finding Aid
Description: James F. Spalding, born July 28, 1835, was an early pioneer resident in Kansas City, arriving in 1865. According to his obituary, in October of that year founded the first school in Kansas City, two years before the first public school. It evolved later into Spalding's Commercial College, a business school. The collection contains a variety of textual material and artifacts. Spalding died on August 17, 1916, in Kansas City. (His death certificate reads August 18, 1916.)
Date: 1860/1950
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC90 DAR, Kansas City Chapter, World War I Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: The men of Battery A, 129th Field Artillery, were officially mustered into Federal Service on August 5, 1917, as part of the 35th Division, United States First Army, Allied Expeditionary Force. Most of the men of the battery were natives of Kansas City, Missouri. The battery trained at Camp Doniphan, located at Fort Sill, several miles from Lawton, Oklahoma. In the fall of 1918, the 129th Field Artillery participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Battle of the Argonne Forest, near Verdun in northwest France. The battery returned to a hero's welcome in Kansas City the following year, 1919. The Record of Battery "A" is a bound scrapbook of 101 pages containing newspaper clippings, photographs, telegrams, letters, and typed material. Items in the collection follow the course of the battery's involvement in World War I, reflecting the training of the men, their combat experiences, and their return to Kansas City. The scrapbook also illustrates the involvement of domestic organizations in supporting U.S. troops in wartime.
Date: 1917/1919
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC205 Organized Crime Files Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains files relating to organized crime in Kansas City from the 1930s to the 1970s. Contents include records from the Kansas City Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, reporter’s notes, newspaper clippings, and photographs of local mafia members.
Date: 1934~/1972~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC20 Guadalupe Center Collection Finding Aid
Description: Established in 1919, the Guadalupe Center originally served as a settlement house and gathering place for the growing community of Mexican immigrants residing on the West Side of Kansas City. The center offered a variety of programs, including medical clinics, classes, music and dance groups, sports teams, and social clubs. The Guadalupe Center Collection contains scrapbooks, photographs, programs, histories, and records that document an early period of the organization’s activities.
Date: 1918/1977
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC99 Philip A. Gambone Papers Finding Aid
Description: Two boxes contain the Phil Gambone architecture research papers of notes, correspondence, photographs, photocopied articles, etc., and note cards for work on a book on Kansas City architecture. The book was to have been published in the 1970s, but the research and publication were never completed. Includes photographs of the New England Building (folder 25), a list of log cabins in Kansas City (folder 20) and a list of 1922 Kansas City landmarks (folder 19).
Date: 1972/1975
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P23 Native American/Western Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains over over 140 glass plate negatives, cabinet cards, and assorted prints. The images are primarily of Native American peoples, cowboys, and "Boomer" settlers in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the late-1880s through the early-1900s. The principal tribes represented include the Ponca, Kiowa, Comanche, Sac and Fox, Otoe, Pawnee and Apache. Many of the images were taken by prominent western photographers of the period including Thomas Croft, William S. Prettyman, George Cornish, and William E. Irwin. There are also fifteen photographs of Sioux Indians and U.S. soldiers taken by the Northwestern Photo Company during the 1890/91 conflict at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
Date: 1880~/1901~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC197 Frank Schubert Buffalo Soldiers Collection Finding Aid
Description: Frank N. (Mickey) Schubert is a historian who has done extensive research on the topic of Buffalo Soldiers, specifically the experiences of individuals. This collection consists of Schubert’s research files, copies of his speeches and presentations, manuscripts and articles he reviewed, and photograph prints used in his books.
Date: 1897/2014
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC4 Charles L. Johnson Papers Finding Aid
Description: Charles Johnson, ragtime musician and composer and arranger, spent most of his life in Kansas City, Missouri. It is believed that he made the first orchestra arrangement for the song "Missouri Waltz" and tried to sell it to music publishers in 1914. Johnson arranged music for the American Royal previous to World War II, was the musical director of the annual "Nit-Wits" show of the University Club, and was an arranger for the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. He died at the age of 75 in 1950. Collection contains music manuscripts, both published and in manuscript form, one recording, photos, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia.
Date: 1861/1951
Object Type: Finding Aid

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