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Title: Miracle Stores Building
Description: View looking easy of the Miracle Stores Building that once stood at 923-925 Main Street. Signs for Kessel, ABC Sign Works, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks can be seen. Parked cars and pedestrians outside of the store are in view.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Famous Petticoat Lane
Description: View looking west along Petticoat Lane (11th Street) from its intersection with Walnut Street. The streets are crowded as a horse drawn steam pumper fire engine passes. Signs for the John Taylor Dry Goods Company and Federmann's drugstore can be seen.
Date: 1910~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Jones Store Company Cafe
Description: Postcard of the interior of the Jones Store Company cafe, once located at 12th and Main streets.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Altman Building and Alpha Floral
Description: View looking northeast of the Altman Building and occupants Alpha Floral Company, once located at 1101-1105 Walnut Street. The Emery, Bird and Thayer Building is in view across 11th Street in the background. Pedestrians, cars, and a horse and buggy can be seen traveling along Walnut Street.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Interview with Marianne Young
Description: Interview with Marianne Young about her life and her experience in Kansas City's garment industry. Born and raised in Germany, she discusses getting her taste for nice things from her mother and her early interest in fashion, coming to the United States on a scholarship to Northeast Missouri State University, meeting her husband, and following his job to Kansas City. She recalls her job at upscale women's clothing store Swanson's in the 1970s, working as a salesperson and helping assemble wardrobes for customers, declining offers to work as a model, and working as a buyer for DuVall's until the store closed. She discusses the fate of the various DuVall's locations in the area, and going to work at Saks on the Plaza as a personal shopper until that store closed circa 2005. She shares her opinions about the state of Kansas City clothing retailers, the change in fashion to focus on younger women, and making her wardrobe work over time.
Date: 2011-04-03
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Interview with Mary Agnes Alderman
Description: Interview with Mary Agnes Alderman in which she discusses her career in the garment industry, including working as a buyer for a department store in Springfield, Missouri in the 1950s. She recalls modeling and managing fashion shows, traveling to New York to buy women's sportwear, and her knowledge of Kansas City garment manufacturers and stores. She discusses the changes in shopping habits and department stores, working as a teacher after moving to Kansas City, and serving Ramfis Trujillo, son of president of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo, while working at Swanson's clothing store on the Plaza. She also discusses the change in fashion to more casual dress, and expresses support and enthusiasm for the preservation of Kansas City's garment industry history.
Date: 2011-05-03
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Interview with Suzie Aron
Description: Interview with Suzie Aron about her family history in Kansas City's garment industry, beginning with her grandfather Hyman Gordon's immigration to Topeka, Kansas, and later to Kansas City. She discusses Jewish prevalence in the industry, and her family's Frances Gee Garment Company which focused primarily on uniforms for nurses and other woman-dominated professions - a direction taken because it was easier to work with all white fabric. She discusses the company being one of the first with overseas production facilities, having opened factories in Puerto Rico and Japan, as well as other aspects of the company's operations and union relationships, including her experience working on designing and branding uniforms for the fast food industry, work which eventually became the focus of the company.
Date: 2011-02-07
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Jones Store Construction
Description: View looking southwest of the Jones Store Building that once stood at 12th and Main streets. A pedestrian standing outside the store can be seen. Signs advertising remodeling work on the store are in view.
Date: 1957~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas Hart Benton Mural
Description: Postcard of the Achelous and Hercules mural by Thomas Hart Benton, once on display in the Harzfeld's Department Store in downtown Kansas City.
Object Type: Postcard

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