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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.128
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Description
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Page 128 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A clipping with an image of Mayor John B. Gage is attached to the upper left hand corner of the page. A clipping with an image of Kansas City police officers and Chief L. B. Reed Is attached to the center of the page. A clipping with an image of Richard F. Morris is attached to the upper right hand corner of the page.
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Date
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1940
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.127
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Description
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Page 127 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A clipping with a group portrait of the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners is attached to the page. Pictured are, Edward Shook, Milton B. Schweiger, George Fiske, Frank P. Logan, Jr., John M. Cleary, Jr., and Mayor John B. Gage.
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Date
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1940
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.37
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Description
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Page 37 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A group portrait of police officers is attached to the upper left hand corner of the page. A photograph of police officers mounted atop horses is attached to the lower left hand corner of the page. A portrait of Buddy Myers dressed in a band uniform is attached to the right hand side of the page.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.63
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Description
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Page 63 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A snapshot of a police officer working in a dispatch room is attached to the top of the page. A snapshot of two police officers working in a dispatch room is attached to the bottom of the page.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook
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Description
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A scrapbook compiled by Captain Hugh M. Dougherty of the Kansas City Police Department. Items relevant to the history of the department and his career are included. Born in 1875, Dougherty was hired by the KCPD in 1917. In 1932, he was made commander of the Sheffield Police Station. In addition to his career, photographs and clippings from his work with Boy Scouts Troop 177 and the KCPD Junior Patrol are included. Dougherty retired in 1940 and passed away in 1946.
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Human Wolves - Seventeen Years of War on Crime
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Description
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Book by Lear B. Reed, former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent and Kansas City Police Chief (July 11, 1939 - September 30, 1941). Reed tells the story of his work with the FBI, his decision to accept the role of Kansas City Police Chief, and his efforts to fight corruption within the department.
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Date
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1941
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City's Top Cop: Veteran Crimebuster Achieves a Major "First" as Police Chief
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Boston Daniels, newly appointed chief of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department and the "first black to become police chief of a U.S. city the size (170,000) of Kansas City, Kansas." Born in Arkansas about 1905 and moving to Kansas City, Kansas, in 1928 before joining that city's police department in 1945 and working his way up to chief over 25 years as an award-winning crime investigator (describing several mysterious cases solved by him there since the 1950s).
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Date
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1970-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.129
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Description
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Page 129 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. Clippings showing police officers at a construction site are attached to the page. A caption below the clippings reads: Upper left, the first time we've ever seen Chiefs Reed NOT in action! Upper right, Supt. Dick Morris looks over the excavation work and seems happy about the whole thing. Above, Commissioners Fiske, Shook, Schweiger and Supt. Morris assist in the digging. Mr. Fiske has warmed up to the task.
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Date
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1940-10
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Object Type
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Archival Material
