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Title: SC15-2 Grand Army of the Republic, A. D. McCook Post No. 34 (Lamar, Mo.), Record Book Finding Aid
Description: A one volume membership book for a Lamar/Barton County, Missouri post of the GAR. It contains 346 numbered entries. Information provided in the book includes: name of soldier, age, birthplace, residence, occupation, entry into the service including date, rank, company, and regiment, final discharge, date of muster in the GAR, nature of wounds received and in what engagement, and remarks which often include a handwritten death date.
Date: 1882/1923
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC143 Kansas City Theatre Company Collection
Description: The Kansas City Theatre Company Collection consists of court records detailing the sale of its lease on the Gayety Theatre building. The documents were filed as an injunction against the sale by one of the company's shareholders.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC209 Emancipation Proclamation Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains the printed text of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued September 22, 1862, and the final proclamation signed into effect on January 1, 1863.
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC160 Kansas City Athenaeum Collection Finding Aid
Description: Founded in 1894 through a collaboration of existing women’s clubs, the Kansas City Athenaeum is one of the oldest women’s organizations in the area. The Kansas City Athenaeum Collection contains minutes, yearbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, operational and financial records, clubhouse information and building plans, and ephemera documenting the history of the club.
Date: 1894/2012
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P33 Ward Hunt Collection Finding Aid
Description: The photographs in the Ward Hunt Collection feature a number of images of famous personalities such as Sophie Tucker, Hedy Lamarr, and Jimmy Stewart, as well as local celebrities such as broadcaster Randall Jessee and University of Missouri football coach Don Faurot. Additionally, the collection contains correspondence and material documenting the career of a professional photographer in the 1940's and 1950's. Items of genealogical interest to the descendants of Ward Hunt, such as family photographs and birth/death records, are also preserved in the collection. The collection contains photographs of three types: those shot in the course of Ward Hunt's career as a professional photographer; those related to the history of his family; and personal photographs found in a scrapbook. Ward Hunt was a photographer for the Kansas City Star for 24 years. Prior to his work at the Star, he worked as an Associated Press photographer, as well as a motion picture cameraman and projectionist. His movie work included creating films of Asia and Europe with evangelist Carl Walker and shooting news subjects. He also worked as a free-lance photographer and wire photo operator. Hunt retired from the Star in April 1964. He died at the age of 63 that year.
Date: 1900~/1964~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC169 North American Aviation Collection Finding Aid
Description: The North American Aviation Inc. operated a B-25 factory at the Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas from 1942-1945. This collection, donated by relatives of former North American Aviation employees, consists of issues of the plant's employee newsletter, notices sent to employees, and a patriotic music catalog.
Date: 1942/1945
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC196 Marburg Residence Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of a green leather bound photo album stamped with “Marburg” on the front cover. Sepia-tone photographic prints of August Meyer’s home, Marburg, are pasted to black paper pages; the paste has failed on several and these are contained in a separate folder. The structure is now known as Vanderslice Hall and serves as the administrative building of the Kansas City Art Institute.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC102 Bridge Quantity Record Books Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains four record books with quantity listings for bridge/viaduct construction in Kansas City. They were maintained by a Kansas City (Mo.) City Hall office, although the department is not identified in the books. The first two books pertain to the 12th Street Trafficway bridge and the third and fourth books pertain to the Wyandotte Street Viaduct at 31st Street as well as a number of other bridges. Each contains dates as well as quantity listings for materials such as steel, concrete, sand, lumber, crushed rock, etc., used in the construction process. The first three also list various company names that were contracted for the work. Numerous pages include diagrams.
Date: 1913/1917
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection Finding Aid
Description: The collection is comprised of 65 audiocassettes (61 CDs) with interviews of 59 people from Kansas City's Hispanic community. Persons interviewed cover a substantial cross-section of the population, ranging from state legislators to persons who were unemployed at the time of the interview.
Date: 1977/1982
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC49 Loula Grace Erdman Book Manuscript Finding Aid
Description: Native Missourian Loula Grace Erdman was a prolific author, writing primarily young adult historical fiction.The 336-page typewritten manuscript of the book "The Short Summer" is a work of young adult fiction with holographic corrections by the author in pen and pencil. Also included are photocopies of two articles from the "Kansas City Star" about the book and the author. A copy of the published book, which appears to have been taken from the library's circulating collection, is with the collection. First sheet of manuscript reads: "Working Manuscript The Short Summer By Loula Grace Erdman, 1958."
Date: 1958
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: SC8-2 Local Schools Collection Finding Aid
Description: This Local Schools Collection consists of various pamphlets, booklets, brochures, etc., about different types of area schools. It does not include the public schools.
Date: 1910/1960
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC9 Abstracts Collection Finding Aid
Description: Assortment of abstracts, most of them for historical Kansas City areas, but a few are of other places. Documents are transcriptions or copies of transcriptions of the original documents. Abstracts include a variety of related documents, including will, divorce decrees, and similar documents that would affect ownership of property. Includes abstract for Shawnee Lands in Wyandotte County, Kansas involving the Bluejacket family; various properties in Westport and McGee's Addition; and McCoy's Lot 9 where Boone's Trading Post was built.
Date: 1832/1972
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P12 Henry D. Green Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: This collection is composed of 69 black and white photographs of varying sizes and nine sketches and features business buildings compiled in scrapbook form by Henry D. Green in 1926-1928. Most of the pictures have a letterhead and logo of the company accompanying the picture. Besides office buildings, there are a few photographs of banks, hotels, and theaters.
Date: 1926/1929
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC203 Forest Cover of Missouri County Maps Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Forest Cover of Missouri County Maps Collection includes county highway maps, showing the forest cover in Missouri.
Date: 1976
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC37 William C. Connett, Jr. Papers Finding Aid
Description: The Connett family is noted in the history of the St. Joseph and Sparta, Missouri, area. They had connections at one time with the meat-packing industry in St. Joseph, Missouri. Leonard L. Solomon was a circuit court judge. This small collection is of primarily letters relating to William C. Connett, Jr., and his father-in-law Solomon L. Leonard. They pertain to the northwest area of Missouri and include geographic names as Sparta, Hempland, Platte City, and St. Joseph.
Date: 1851/1883
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC218 Penn Elementary School Closing Program Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains items pertaining to the last program of the Penn Elementary School before closing its doors in 1955.
Date: 1955-05
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC166 Municipal Auditorium Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains 35 black and white 8 x 10 photographs from a photo album by the Harkins Commercial Photo Company in Kansas City. The images are of interior and exterior views of the Municipal Auditorium taken around the time it was built in 1934-1935.
Date: 1934/1935
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC43 John Campbell Compilation Finding Aid
Description: The date of John Campbell's birth is unknown, although it is known he was a soldier in 1797. He was issued a license to trade with the Indians along the Missouri and Des Moines Rivers in 1822 and was in this area from 1827-35, as an Indian agent. All the material in this small collection are photocopies only and contained in one box and five folders. The material includes photocopied pages from books and magazines, the correspondence of Mrs. Christopher, newspaper clippings, plats, copies of original federal documents, and other county records.
Date: 1805/1965
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC16 James Love Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of circulars, correspondence, petitions, and other miscellaneous documents accumulated by James Love, a prominent educator in Missouri before and through the Civil War. The circulars focus on the Clay Academy for Young Ladies and other early educational institutions in Missouri at which Love worked. Other items include a Temperance Pledge signed by Love, correspondence regarding the Iowa Indian War, racial separation, and other political issues of Love’s time.
Date: 1840/1911
Object Type: Finding Aid

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