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Title: SC35-4 Autograph Book Finding Aid
Description: This 89-page book of autographs does not contain the owner or compiler's name. The 244 signatures appear to have been gathered during 1867-1868. With each name is a state, and because the name of Schulyer Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives, appears, it is presumed the names included are United States congressional figures of the time.
Date: 1867/1868
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC35-5 E. J. Davison Autograph Book Finding Aid
Description: This 73-page autograph book was compiled, according to dates found with some signatures, in 1878-79 by E. J. Davison in Washington, D.C. The focus of the signatures center around United States government offices and departments and includes the autograph of then President Rutherford B. Hayes and Vice President William A. Wheeler as well as the majority of Senators at that time.
Date: 1878/1879
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC87 Kansas City (Mo.) City Hall Building Files Finding Aid
Description: The Kansas City (Mo.) City Hall Building Files collection contains materials from the Kansas City, Missouri Department of Public Works, City Architect’s Office. This collection primarily contains the architectural history of the City Hall building in addition to project correspondence from the department of Public Works or the Kansas City Government.
Date: 1931/1999
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC117 Map Collection Finding Aid
Description: This is an artificial collection consisting of maps found in the Missouri Valley Special Collections. The collection includes historical, road, and geological maps, as well as travel guides. Most of the maps relate to Kansas City and Missouri, though Kansas, the rest of the United States, and other countries are represented as well.
Date: 1642/2009
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC8-1 Local Clubs Collection Finding Aid
Description: Collections consisting of various rosters, programs, notes, membership cards, etc., of Kansas City area clubs.
Date: 1870/1990
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P34-1 Kansas City Health Care Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This photograph collection contains 198 black and white photographs taken in the 1940s-1950s. The images are of health care facilities and services maintained by the Kansas City Health Department. Includes General Hospital Nos. 1 and 2, the TB Hospital in the Leeds area, nursing program, etc. The collection was acquired from the Kansas City Landmarks Commission.
Date: 1940~/1959~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P41 Union Station Construction Photographs Finding Aid
Description: The Union Station Construction Photographs collection consists of 49 photographs of Kansas City’s Union Station and corresponding infrastructure while under construction. The photos are identified, dated between 1910-1911, and offer insight into the scope of work put into the building that would serve as the primary transportation hub of Kansas City into the middle of the 20th century.
Date: 1910/1911
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC204 USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Finding Aid
Description: The topographic maps in this collection were printed by the United States Geological Survey, and show elevation, hydrography, geographic place names, and other features within quadrangles in the state of Missouri.
Date: 1945/2004
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC70 Youth Symphony of Kansas City Records Finding Aid
Description: The Youth Symphony of Kansas City was organized in April 1958, as an independent civic enterprise. The prospective members had to be recommended by their school music director or private music teacher. The charter states it was to be affiliated with the Kansas City Philharmonic, Missouri Federation of Music Clubs, the American Symphony Orchestra League, and the United States Youth Symphony Federation.The collection contains a number of different types of material covering the group's beginning and formative years, 1958-1970, including concert programs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, board minutes and budget reports. Other items include brochures, some of the group's publications, press releases, circulars/flyers, membership lists, a historical sketch, notices, photographs, and other types of miscellaneous items. Newspaper clippings provide coverage of the group's trip to Chicago in 1963, to Washington, D.C., and the World's Fair in New York in 1964, and to Barcelona, Spain, in 1969.
Date: 1958/1970
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC58 Mrs. Sam Ray Postcard Collection Finding Aid
Description: Mildred Kittell Ray was born in Halstead, Kansas, on September 22, 1895. An avid collector of postcards (buttons, too), Mrs. Ray, at the age of 72, initiated a column in the Kansas City Times and Kansas City Star entitled "A Postcard from Old Kansas City." The columns ran for 23 years. They proved to be extremely popular with the reading public, and two selected sets of articles were collected and published in book form; the first volume won a national design award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. The collection consists of over 16,000 postcards and materials associated with Mrs. Ray's writing career. Subjects in the postcards include Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas, the other states of the US, a large number of foreign countries, an assortment of different topics (humor, holidays, etc.), and card format (wood, leather, copper, etc.). Items related to Mrs. Ray's career as a writer include: correspondence; research materials such as newspaper clippings and handwritten notes; draft, manuscript, and published versions of early "pre-postcard" historical articles; postcard articles that were rejected by the publisher; and the texts of lectures and presentations given by Mrs. Ray. Graphic materials make up another part of the collection, with items like advertising envelopes, ephemera from Emery, Bird, Thayer, and a number of photographs. An audiotape of a speech given by Dick Ray (Mrs. Ray's son), on February 13, 1998, at the official debut of the Library's online version of the newspaper column is included in the collection.
Date: 1890/1998
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC64 Kansas City Convention Programs Collection Finding Aid
Description: This artificial collection contains approximately 100 programs of primarily national conventions of associations from throughout the United States held in Kansas City, Missouri, between the years 1903-1961. A few of the conventions were held in Kansas City, Kansas. The programs cover a wide range of organizations including agricultural, labor related, sports, home and retail, medical, educational, legal, religious, professional, and women's groups. The early convention programs include the Grand Army of the Republic, Missouri State Horticultural Society and the National Flower Show. One box has miscellaneous items such as newsletters, schedules, and brochures. Some of the larger programs may include photographs of Kansas City used to illustrate and promote.
Date: 1903/1961
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC13-3 Knowles Postcard Collection Finding Aid
Description: A collection of approximately 200 postcards primarily from Kansas City and a variety of Missouri towns. Topics includes buildings, streets, libraries, fountains, etc.
Date: 1960/1980
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: P28 Judge Elmo M. Hargrave Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Hargrave collection of 173 black and white 8 x10 in. photographs depict scenes primarily in and around downtown Kansas City, Missouri. They were originally created to document accident sites for later use as evidence in lawsuits people had filed against the city. Hargrave recognized the intrinsic historical value of these images and received permission to save them from destruction. After his death, his close friend Joe Zenitsky contacted the Library to make arrangements for providing these photos to Library customers and to users of the World Wide Web. The bulk of the photographs date from the 1920s. Because of their original intent, they provide a unique perspective on the traditional views of streetscapes, businesses, residences, parks, and other locales.Elmo M. Hargrave was born in Kansas City in 1918. After attending Manual High School, he enlisted in the United States Army. During World War II he suffered severe injuries to his chest and throat, damaging his vocal cords. After teaching himself to speak again, he began to study the field of law to practice speaking. He had a long career as a public servant, eventually rising to the position of Municipal Judge. Judge Hargrave retired in 1983 and died 14 years later.
Date: 1920~/1945~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC90 DAR, Kansas City Chapter, World War I Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: The men of Battery A, 129th Field Artillery, were officially mustered into Federal Service on August 5, 1917, as part of the 35th Division, United States First Army, Allied Expeditionary Force. Most of the men of the battery were natives of Kansas City, Missouri. The battery trained at Camp Doniphan, located at Fort Sill, several miles from Lawton, Oklahoma. In the fall of 1918, the 129th Field Artillery participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Battle of the Argonne Forest, near Verdun in northwest France. The battery returned to a hero's welcome in Kansas City the following year, 1919. The Record of Battery "A" is a bound scrapbook of 101 pages containing newspaper clippings, photographs, telegrams, letters, and typed material. Items in the collection follow the course of the battery's involvement in World War I, reflecting the training of the men, their combat experiences, and their return to Kansas City. The scrapbook also illustrates the involvement of domestic organizations in supporting U.S. troops in wartime.
Date: 1917/1919
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC27 Nikoles Aleshi Virtuana Language Collection Finding Aid
Description: Nicholas Aleshi came to Kansas City around 1900. He owned a dairy at 66th and Belinder and a grocery store at 312 Holmes. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, reports, business accounts, manuscripts, etc., of Nikoles Aleshi and his Virtuana Language System. Included are various items using the Virtuana language.
Date: 1906/1977
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC120 Clifton B. Sloan Papers Finding Aid
Description: Clifton B. Sloan papers include genealogical materials from the Sloan estate and nineteenth-century correspondence, clippings, family charts, etc.
Date: 1876/1938
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC88 Carl Betz Collection Finding Aid
Description: Carl Betz was a pioneer in the physical education curriculum in the Kansas City public schools in the late 1800s. The collection consists of two boxes with programs, manuscripts, artifacts, photographs, miscellaneous published items, etc. Betz was also a musician.
Date: 1880~/1988
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC32 George Kessler Collection Finding Aid
Description: This one box collection includes 16 landscape drawings done primarily by George Kessler, dated 1910 - 1916 and covering not only Penn Valley Park and North Terrace Park in Kansas City but also projects in China, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, St. Joseph, St. Louis, etc. It also includes two microfilm reels of official correspondence to and from the Board of Park Commisssioners, held in the same box as the drawings.
Date: 1895/1923
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC66 Kansas City/Local Area Fine Arts Programs Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of various types of local fine arts programs and is designed to be an on-going collection. The programs are arranged alphabetically by either the theater name or place of performance, the fine arts series name, or the performing groups name. Individual plays, performers, producers, etc., are not indexed. The bulk of the programs cover the 20th century although there are a few late 19th-century ones. Most all of the programs are for Kansas City events, but some cover events in the greater metropolitan area. This collection is not all inclusive but does provide good coverage of the major fine arts events.
Date: 1880~/
Object Type: Finding Aid

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