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Title: Missouri State Flower
Description: Information about the Missouri State Flower, the downy hawthorn.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Flower Stall
Description: Full view of a man standing near a flower stall at an unidentified location in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. This stall and others, owned by Downtown, Inc. of Kansas City, Missouri, received an award for being multi-colored, bright, cheerful and well designed additions to the urban core.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Photograph

Title: P22 Frank Lauder Autochrome Collection Finding Aid
Description: The collection consists of 1402 color, glass negative autochrome images of Kansas City residences and gardens; some city views, including parks, statues, fountains, and other landmarks; and pictures of Saint Louis, Missouri, and Topeka, Kansas. The photos date from around 1930 through 1942, with the bulk taken before 1935. A large portion of the images are close-ups of individual plants and flowers. The collection also includes a few color slides that are not autochromes, as well as a handful of black-and-white slides. Of the total number of slides, 1228 are unique images. The collection also includes notes from lectures given by the photographer.
Date: 1931~/1942~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Sirnas' California Dreams Began in Northeast
Description: Photo and biographical article about the Sirna family from the Northeast residential district, headed by Carmen Sirna, co-owner of "the second largest artificial plant/flower factory in the United States." Description of the four brothers and especially Carmen, moving to California to work for the company providing artificial plants for Hollywood sets in the 1960s and moving into casinos and hotels in the 1980s, including "Harrah's in Kansas City."
Date: 2001-01-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing bouquet of flowers identified as Gladioli. Back of card gives "Interesting facts about baking powder" and says: "150 stores in United States." Kansas City address is not given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Leis' German Baking Powder
Description: Advertising card for unknown company with image of pink flower. Front of card has poem: "Leis' German Baking Powder, Is the best, Used in the West; Give it a test, And you will be blest." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1304 Union Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Western Installment Book Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Western Installment Book Company with image of flower (rose). One of two cards with similar design. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 218 East Twelfth Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Underwood Company
Description: Photo and description about the Underwood Company, on East 11th Street, and its extravagant window decorations of flowers during the Flower Show at Convention Hall.
Date: 1901-12-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 20 with Unrelated Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards showing the following:1. A robin, rose, and house. Card says: "Shaub and Burns, Shoe Dealers, 14 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa...""2. A woman and man cuddling on the beach behind an umbrella, a sailing ship in the water.3. A bird and a flower. Card says: "Use Niagara Gloss Starch. Unexcelled for the Laundry."4. A man sitting on a step hugging a monkey in a red suit inside his coat.5. A farm woman standing in hay holding a rake. Card says: "Bookmark."6. A woman in brightly colored dress sitting in a hammock holding a red parasol. 7. A woman in a pink dress kneeling down to show a man a large, fancy looking stove. Card says: "'Quick Meal Gasoline Stove always work [sic] well.'" Lower right corner has number 957 and lower left corner says: "Kaufmann and Strauss Co., N.Y."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 2 with Hands and Flowers
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight small advertising or calling cards arranged around one larger central card. The central card shows a man bowing and a woman curtsying as they are introduced. It says: "Geo. A. Clark and Bro. Agents for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton." Around the large card are six calling cards with flaps that have images of hands and flowers, and on some, a model sailing ship, doves, horseshoe, shaking hands, and a quill. The flaps lift up to reveal names: Horace D. Lawrence, Geo. W. Sandys, Curtis M. Dewey, Mrs. M. J. Gilmore (two flaps don't lift up). To the sides of the large card are cards cut to the shape of the flowers they depict. One has little people instead of flower buds.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: John Liesveld, Civic Leader, Florist, Dies
Description: Photo and obituary for John Liesveld, "founder and owner 43 years of Liesvelds, a florist shop at 442 Ward Parkway," dying at the age of 70 at his residence at 200 West 67th Terrace. Description of his life and career as a native of Nebraska coming to Kansas City about 1928 as a lawyer and opening his first flower shop on Armour Boulevard about 1933, becoming president of the Country Club Plaza Association and the Kansas City Chapter of the American Red Cross and writing non-fiction books such as 1951's "The Retail Florist."
Date: 1975-11-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Preventing Extinction
Description: Article about the diversity of Missouri's species of plants and animals, as well as other natural phenomena making them possible, such as the types of underlying soil and rock, humid continental climate, etc.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: History of Howard and Cooper Counties, Missouri
Description: History of "'Hardeman's garden'. ..located about five miles from Old Franklin," in Howard County, Missouri. Description of its lushness and variety of flowers, cultivated by John Hardeman, mostly destroyed in the flood of 1826.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Book

Title: Horticulture
Description: File containing information about Missouri saxifrages, a genus of plant found in Missouri, unusual for the area and more common in the Southwest.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Excelsior Rose Trellis
Description: 5725 Central, Residence of Robert L. Hawkins, Treasurer, Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. (dry goods)
Date: 1935-06-20
Object Type: Negative

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 59 with Feathers, Flowers, and Women
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. Flowers (two cards cut to shape).2. A large feather and flowers (two cards).3. Two women sewing. Card says: "Using Poor Spool Cotton."4. A woman standing at a piano. Card says: "Estey Piano Co. New York, Manufacturers...""5. Flowers and doves.6. A woman knitting with a girl hugging her from behind and a cat rubbing on her arm.7. Three tiny clowns struggling to lay a bottle on a table.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 70 with Flowers and Women in Traditional Costume
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards and a newspaper clipping. The clipping says: "Mr. Nathan Degginger of Kansas City was in our office on Saturday. He and his sister, Bertha, always take in the Sparks Picnic. This is their old home and they have many friends here." Four oval cards each show a woman in the traditional dress of an unidentified country. Two cards show a hand and flowers, one with a fan. One large (18 x 22 cm.) card shows a basket of flowers.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 13 with Hands, Flowers, and Doves
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine small advertising cards arranged around one larger central card. The central card shows and is cut in the shape of a woman playing a flute. Seven of the smaller cards have images of hands and flowers. In two the hands hold mirrors, in three doves, and in two envelopes (both these cards are cut in the shape of fans)." Another card has flowers with a silver crest in the middle. The last card is a tiny girl, cut to shape.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 25 with Unrelated Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing six advertising cards showing the following:1. Two girls picking flowers in a meadow.2. A large white and black dog laying down. Card says: "Use Day's Soap."3. A farm scene of cows by a house and barn surrounded by a border of flowers.4. A person in a canoe by a log cabin in a swamp. Card says: "Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure fever and Ague and all malarial disorders. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer and Co., Lowell, Mass." In the corner is a small picture of two frogs giving a bottle to an alligator.5. An image of a street corner with a building flying the Confederate, American, British, and French flags and others.6. A gray card with brightly colored flowers and a poem about Narcissus and Christmas and the New Year.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 68 with Winter Scenes
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards. Four cards with similar design and theme show houses in snowy winter scenes surrounded by a gray border. Three cards are black with colorful scenes of a woman and man embracing next to a flag, a man and woman buying flowers from a woman under a large umbrella, and three men holding a blank banner. One card is black with flowers and has a banner saying: "To .."." For Neat Work .."." Teacher.."(The blanks are not filled in.)
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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