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Title: Pictorial Map of Kansas
Description: Map of historical events and places in Kansas, including illustrations.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Map

Title: A Map of the Country Club District
Description: Map of the Country Club District with drawings illustrating people, places, and events in Kansas City history.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Map

Title: Missouri: Special Limited Supplement
Description: Photo and bio of Bruce Dodson, Sr. (1866-1926), "the creator of the reciprocal plan of insurance." He was born in Pennsylvania and moved to Saint Louis in 1872 and to Kansas City in 1890, becoming "assistant engineer in the Kansas City Water Department," then "receiver for the Argentine Water Works" before entering the insurance business. Short description also of his two sons, Bruce Dodson, Jr., and Ralph Dodson, both insurance attorneys.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri: Special Limited Supplement
Description: Photo and bio of Floyd Calvin Shoemaker, or Floyd Shoemaker, "author of the second volume of 'Missouri and Her People,' and secretary of the State Historical Society of Missouri." Born in Florida in 1886 and brought to Bucklin, Missouri by his parents in 1893 before becoming a history teacher and librarian in Columbia and Gallatin, Missouri as well as "editor of the 'Missouri Historical Review" starting in 1915. Listing of his other "principal works" on Missouri history as author and editor, etc.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Book

Title: Women Working with Easter Seals
Description: Interior view of group of women at table working with Easter Seals.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: South Central Business Association Photo Display
Description: Framed (25 1/2 in. x 54 in.) photograph display featuring the South Central Business Association and entitled "First Weekend Vacation - Goodwill Trade Trip - June 28th - 29th, 1930 - Siloam Springs - Sulpher Springs - Noel - Ginger Blue."
Date: 1930
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Missouri: Special Limited Supplement
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Walter Williams, "founder and dean of the School of Journalism of the Universtiy of Missouri." Born in Boonville, Missouri in 1864 and becoming a newspaper editor there and in surrounding cities before founding the program in 1908 and writing several books.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Book

Title: Grant Wood Print
Description: Framed (27" x 33") color print by artist Grant Wood entitled "Stone City," 1930. Inscription at bottom reads: "Joslyn Art Museum Omaha." Framed by Vivian L. Newlin, Art West Designs Ltd., Fort Collins, CO. Print was formerly part of the library's circulating art collection.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Missouri: Special Limited Supplement
Description: Photo and bio of Arthur Snell Bird, or Arthur Bird, vice-president of Safeway Stores, Incorporated, chain of grocery stores, buying out the Piggly Wiggly stores in the Kansas City area in the 1920s to form the Piggly Wiggly Bird Company, changed to Bird Grocery Stores, Incorporated, and then bought by Safeway Stores. Description of his life starting in Texas, first working for the Proctor & Gamble Company and then Piggly Wiggly in Texas, taking over their division in Kansas City.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri: Special Limited Supplement
Description: Photo and bio of S. H. Hale, president and founder of the Gleaner Combine Harvester Corporation with plant in Independence and offices in Kansas City. Description of his life and career, born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1866 and working on the railroads before starting his own oil company in 1900 and later inventing "various implements and articles for use in utilizing natural gas."
Date: 1930
Object Type: Book

Title: Fidelity Building Construction
Description: View of construction of the second Fidelity National Bank Building showing a Black laborer at work.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

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