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Title: Field of Dreams
Description: Photos and article about Lloyd Vernon Kennedy (1907-1993), a former professional baseball player and collegiate athletic champion. Description of his life and career, born in Kansas City and growing up in Mendon, Missouri, before becoming a football and track star at Central Missouri State Teachers College (later Central Missouri State University) in Warrensburg, Missouri, and pitching in the Major Leagues for the Chicago White Sox and other teams from the mid-1930s to mid-1940s. Afterwards a scout for the White Sox and namesake of Vernon Kennedy Field football stadium in Warrensburg.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Street Railroads of the City
Description: Reprint of an article from the August 10, 1873, Kansas City Times about the "extension of tracks [and] additions to the street railroads of the city," including new connections to Westport and Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: World War I and Kansas City
Description: Various articles in the issue devoted to effects of World War I on the Kansas City area.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Fighting Chance: Harry Truman's Midwestern Whistle-Stop Campaign
Description: Photos and biographical article (written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Truman biographer David McCullough) about the 1948 presidential campaign of Harry Truman across the Midwest by railroad, coming from behind in the election to defeat Thomas Dewey.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Ha Ha Tonka State Park
Description: Article about the history of the Ha Ha Tonka State Park area, just outside Camdenton, Missouri, "tucked away in the Lake of the Ozarks," with photos of the ruins of the Ha Ha Tonka castle and waterfront.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Alexander William Doniphan (1808-1887)
Description: Brief look at the life of Alexander Doniphan who moved to Liberty, Missouri, in 1833. Highlights as his most outstanding accomplishment the leadership of the First Missouri Regiment in the Mexican War. He was part of a group which secured the Baptist college, "William Jewel," for Liberty.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Historical Landmarks: Birthplace of Harry S. Truman
Description: Photo (of the Harry Truman birthplace) and description of the residences of Harry Truman during his birth and upbringing, including his birthplace at Lamar, Missouri (1009 Truman Road), his boyhood home in Independence, Missouri (909 West Waldo Street), and his farm home in Grandview, Missouri (12301 Blue Ridge Boulevard).
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A 10,000 Year-Old Oasis - Alley Spring
Description: Article about the history and prehistory of Alley Spring in the Missouri Ozarks. Article describes its mills since 1869 as well as its unusual geology and remains found of Indians and mastodons.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 28 Years of Cable Cars in Kansas City
Description: Article about the history and unique facts about cable cars and street railways other than the electric type in Kansas City, detailing each company, with photos.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Mary Rockwell Hook
Description: Portrait, photos, and article about Mary Rockwell Hook (1877-1978), "one of Kansas City, Missouri's most important early woman architects," designing mostly houses in Kansas City and across the South. Description of her life and career. She designed structures in Kansas City suburbs starting in 1929, including a house in Raytown and the Mission Hills residence of Ruth White Lowry, the site of Ernest Hemingway's partial writing of "A Farewell to Arms."
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The "Dummy" Line from Westport to Waldo
Description: Anecdotes about the "way one got back and forth from Westport to Waldo at the turn of the century," on the "dummy" line to Dodson ("the present 85th and Prospect"), where it connected with the Missouri Pacific Railroad. "Dummy" meaning a type of condensing engine quieter than "the usual kind."
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: St. Louis Browns
Description: History of the Saint Louis Browns professional baseball team in Saint Louis from 1877 up to their 1891 admission into the National League, under German brewery owner Christian Von der Ahe, with photos and illustrations.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Magazine Article

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