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Title: SC39 South Central Business Association Records Finding Aid
Description: The South Central Business Association began in the 1920s. It was a business group for the Linwood and Troost area of Kansas City, Missouri, and considered by some to be the first shopping district or area away from the downtown Kansas City business area. The records received from this group go into the 1960s. The collection (SC39) contains 44 scrapbooks (1924-1967); correspondence (1922-1963); minute books (1924-1969); printed weekly program notices; and photographs (P14). The photographs are part of the collection of material kept by the secretary of this association, E. Emerson Paton, and primarily cover the organization's weekly luncheons and speakers, many of them celebrities, as well as the 31st and Troost area. The scrapbooks contain primarily newspaper clippings as well as some brochures, flyers, correspondence, ephemeral items, etc.
Date: 1920~/1969~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC55 Felice Lyne Papers Finding Aid
Description: Felice Lyne was born in Slater, Missouri, but received her early education and musical training in Kansas City. She achieved her greatest success in a number of operatic roles primarily in Europe, and her coloratura soprano voice was world-renowned. Miss Lyne died September 2, 1935, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In November of 1935 she was re-interred at Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. The collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings (loose and in scrapbooks), typewritten reviews of Miss Lyne's performances, sheet music, and assorted ephemeral material. A notable feature of the collection is the depth of newspaper coverage found in the loose and scrapbook clippings. Newspapers from around the world are included, and the clippings give a thorough printed account of the career of Miss Lyne at its peak. The scrapbooks have been photocopied. The following items accompanied the original donation, but were not found with the collection: a pair of boots; sheet music; and opera scores. Some of the sheet music was later found in the library's sheet music collection and added to this collection.
Date: 1908/1941
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC66-2 Edith Lowe Peters Scrapbooks Finding Aid
Description: Edith Lowe Peters appears to have been a long-time Kansas City resident, born in 1882 in Rock Port, Mo. Her father, Frank Lowe, was a local Kansas City figure known in law, church, and political circles. He was prosecuting attorney in Jackson County around the turn of the century. Edith married Howard H. Peters, local publisher and member of the Kansas City Park Board at one time. It is believed that she died in the 1970s.

The three scrapbooks in this collection are arranged by fine arts topics assigned by the compiler. Scrapbook #1 contains only newspaper clippings and features articles about local musicians covering the years 1911 to 1970. Starlight Theatre is given good coverage. Scrapbook #2, "Musical Programs, 1900-1929," contains not only programs and notices of local events, but also programs from Europe. The back of this scrapbook contains newspaper accounts of the Pepper Building fire which occurred in 1908 in downtown Kansas City and in which Edith Peters was involved. Scrapbook #3 also contains theater programs which include both foreign and local ones dating from 1901-1937. Programs include a variety of events including theater and musical performances.
Date: 1900/1970
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC31-1 Henry Van Brunt Travel Diary Finding Aid
Description: Noted as Volume XI, this approximately 200-page travel diary was kept by Henry Van Brunt during a 1901 trip through western Europe, beginning in Geneva and including descriptions of Lyons, Avignon, Nimes, Orange, London., etc.
Date: 1901
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC15-9 Dixon and Jordan Family Papers Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains close to 40 Civil War letters written between the Dixon family with some related Jordan family letters. Most were written by men in the family who were soldiers in the Union Army primarily in Company K, 47th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers as well as a few letters from Company E, 112th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. The Lemuel Dixon family was residing in Stark County, Illinois, during this war-time period. Letters contain news pertaining to the soldier's health as well as other soldiers from the same community back home, camp conditions, troop movements, hospital conditions, politics, and the Rebels.
Date: 1840/1898~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC59 Local Sheet Music Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection of 49 boxes is arranged by imprint and state: Missouri, Kansas, and outside the local area and then by city, with the two largest groupings for Kansas City and St. Louis. Within the Kansas City arrangement is a separate category for Jenkins Music Company and for Charles Johnson. Local composers besides Charles Johnson include Scott Joplin, Carl Hoffman, Charles N. Daniels, and others. The type of music includes traditional music of the time period with emphasis on ragtime selections. The bulk of the music is published but there are some original, handwritten compositions. Also included are songs about Kansas City as well as sheet music covers with illustrations depicting Kansas City.
Date: 1880/1960~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC89 Jason Rogers Papers Finding Aid
Description: Jason Rogers was born in New York City in 1868. He dropped out of grammar school and worked his way up in the journalism trade to become an expert in newspaper publishing and advertising. He was the author of several books on newspaper building and, after leaving the "New York Globe" in 1923, started his own business in newspaper advising. Walter Dickey, publisher of the "Kansas City Journal-Post," hired him in 1926 to help build up the newspapers' position versus their rival the "Kansas City Star."

This small collection includes correspondence and supporting materials such as clippings, speeches, statistics, and advertisements which date from the period of Rogers' association with the "Kansas City Journal-Post." The collection provides valuable insights into the newspaper publishing industry in the 1920s, in particular the rivalry between the Journal-Post and Kansas City Star.
Date: 1923/1929
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC167 Kansas City Stockyards
Description: The Kansas City Stockyards operated in the West Bottoms of Kansas City from 1871 to 1991. It was the second largest stockyards in the nation and one of Kansas City's most important industries. This collection documents the natural and built environment of the Kansas City Stockyards and West Bottoms from 1828-1983. It is a mostly oversized collection of blueprints, maps, architectural drawings, land abstracts, photos, and correspondence. Some items from this collection have been digitized and are available to view in the "Stockyards" Digital Collection, http://www.kchistory.org/digital-collections.
Date: 1828/1983
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC223 Folly Theater Collection Finding Aid
Description: Open since 1900, the Folly Theater has assumed several names and identities over the decades, from a vaudeville, burlesque, and Shakespearean playhouse to an X-rated movie theater. Today, it serves as Kansas City’s oldest performing arts venue. The Folly Theater Collection contains photographs, scrapbooks, posters, administrative and financial records, building blueprints, and various artifacts that document the theater’s diverse history.
Date: 1877/2014
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC60 Claude L. Budworth Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Claude L. Budworth Collection consists of 11 charcoal and colored pencil drawings by Claude Budworth of industrial areas of Kansas City, including the West Bottoms (formerly known as the Central Industrial District), City Market, and the Missouri River. Most, if not all, of the drawings were completed as part of the federal Public Works of Art Project in 1934.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC115 The Kents Comic Book Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of a complete 12-issue comic book series, "The Kents," published by DC Comics from 1997-1998. The story follows members of the fictional Kent family (Superman's adoptive ancestors) in Kansas between 1854 and the 1870s, as they encounter significant individuals and events of the time period.
Date: 1997-08/1998-07
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC159 Kansas City Prints and Images Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of images relating to Kansas City buildings, infrastructure, and historical events. Included are four prints from the Siegrist Engraving Company as well as various magazine-published materials.
Date: 1887/1957
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P23 Native American/Western Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains over over 140 glass plate negatives, cabinet cards, and assorted prints. The images are primarily of Native American peoples, cowboys, and "Boomer" settlers in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the late-1880s through the early-1900s. The principal tribes represented include the Ponca, Kiowa, Comanche, Sac and Fox, Otoe, Pawnee and Apache. Many of the images were taken by prominent western photographers of the period including Thomas Croft, William S. Prettyman, George Cornish, and William E. Irwin. There are also fifteen photographs of Sioux Indians and U.S. soldiers taken by the Northwestern Photo Company during the 1890/91 conflict at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
Date: 1880~/1901~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC20 Guadalupe Center Collection Finding Aid
Description: Established in 1919, the Guadalupe Center originally served as a settlement house and gathering place for the growing community of Mexican immigrants residing on the West Side of Kansas City. The center offered a variety of programs, including medical clinics, classes, music and dance groups, sports teams, and social clubs. The Guadalupe Center Collection contains scrapbooks, photographs, programs, histories, and records that document an early period of the organization’s activities.
Date: 1918/1977
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: SC66-1 Alfred Gregory Theater Program Scrapbooks Finding Aid
Description: Alfred Gregory, a local attorney, was born August 15, 1858, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and died in Kansas City on May 15, 1946. His father was the first president of the University of Illinois. He had both an engineering and law degrees. He moved to Kansas City in 1889 and practiced law with Henry Beardsley. Josephine Karnes, daughter of J. V. C. Karnes, became his wife in 1892. Mr. Gregory loved to travel, visiting Europe often. He also was a lover of music and art. An account of Alfred Gregory's life can be found in the "Kansas City Bar Bulletin," V.23, #2, April 1947, p.11. These six scrapbooks are arranged chronologically, starting in 1875 and ending in 1927. It is believed that they belonged to Alfred Gregory and reflect his interests in the local arts, clubs, and professional activities. The pages primarily contain theater play bills, notices, and programs, as well as banquet menus for club and association events, newspaper clippings, cards, invitations, and other ephemeral items. The items particularly related to theater pertain not only to local but other American cities as well as international locales. Programs include orchestral, theater, and various types of musical performances including opera. There are a number of Knife and Fork Club menus as well as items pertaining to the Kansas City Bar Association. Early local theaters are well represented as well as events at Convention Hall and the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra.
Date: 1875/1927
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC68 Gold Star Mothers Legion Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: The Gold Star Mothers of Kansas City began in 1945 when Mrs. Myra Willock first called together a group of 10 mothers after her son lost his life in World War II. Initially they met to encourage and comfort each other, but after the war they volunteered their time for veteran needs in hospitals. The scrapbook features the lives of 37 men from Kansas City or the immediate area, who except for one, were killed during World War II. The death dates cover from September 24, 1942, to October 20, 1952, a ten-year period. Each man's page contains a short history of his life, including his school and military history as well as his military honors and his place of burial. Also included are 32 photographs, mostly military portraits as well as a few snapshots. Many entries include poetry written by war mothers.
Date: 1942/1952
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC178 American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers Collection Finding Aid
Description: The American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers Collection contains a pre-registration and supplemental roster for the South Central Regional Appraisal Conference in March 1951, and a membership roster for the Kansas City Chapter for 1956.
Date: 1951/1956
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC133 William Weber Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains sketches by William Weber. Weber was a German-born artist who lived in Kansas City, taught drawing at Central High School, and designed floats for local parades.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC201 First National Bank Collection Finding Aid
Description: The First National Bank of Kansas City was started in 1886 by James Lewis Lombard and Colonel James L. Abernathy, and served Kansas City for over 100 years. This collection, donated by a former president of Bank of America’s Kansas City region, consists of business records of a long-standing Kansas City banking institution, as well as building records of the former First National Bank and current Kansas City Public Library Central Branch.
Date: 1834/1990
Object Type: Finding Aid

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