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Title: SC205 Organized Crime Files - Series 2: Kansas City Gangsters -Italian
Description: This series contains files on criminals of Italian descent suspected of having ties to organized crime, mafia, and mob activity in Kansas City. Items include: mug shots, photographs, KCPD and FBI records, short biographies, and newspaper clippings. While most of the documents are undated, many contain arrest records from the 1930s until the year 1950. This series is arranged alphabetically by surname.
Date: 1934/1964
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: SC125 David H. Perkins Papers Finding Aid
Description: The David H. Perkins Papers contain correspondence, publications, writings, photographs, artwork, and ephemera created and collected by David H. Perkins over the course of his life. A life-long Kansas City area resident, Perkins was a writer, editor, teacher, critic, and activist with interests in literature, art, politics, and urban and housing development projects. The collection consists of professional and personal materials.
Date: 2014-10
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC229 Garment Industry Oral History Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains DVDs and transcripts that were created as part of a Kansas City Garment Industry History Project. The collection consists of oral history interviews and supplemental audiovisual materials related to the Garment Industry.
Date: 1938/2020
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Minding the Front of the House: Career Maitre D's May Be Passing from the Scene, but a Few Notable Exceptions Still Rule Their Rooms in Kansas City
Description: Biographical article about prominent maitre d's in Kansas City restaurants, including those at Le Fou Frog, the Savoy Grill, the Metropolis, the American Restaurant, and Café Allegro.
Date: 2001-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Fastest Growing Suburbs
Description: Article describing some of Kansas City's fastest growing suburbs.
Date: 2002-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Play's the Thing: For Producer Marilyn Strauss, KC's Shakespeare in the Park Means More than Her Broadway Successes
Description: Photo and biographical article about Marilyn Strauss, "Broadway producer and founder of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival." Growing up in Detroit and California before coming to Kansas Cityand starting in the theater business in New York City in 1975 before returning here about 1990 and residing in the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 2001-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Condo and Loft Overload?
Description: Article examining the development and sale of urban condominiums and lofts in Kansas City.
Date: 2006-09-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Interview with Dale Rice
Description: Interview with Dale Rice about his family's experience in the Kansas City garment industry. Dale recounts the story of his grandfather David coming to Kansas City to work as a production manager at Stern-Slegman-Prins and later splitting off to start Rice Coat Company, which was later bought out by his sons, Frank and Lou. Dale discusses joining his father, Frank, in the business in 1968, and seeing the downturn in business which he attributes to imports, changes in fashion, shifts in the retail industry, and notes that he was one of the last remaining local manufacturers before ultimately closing the company in 1993. He also discusses the work of patternmakers and designers, and shares stories about working with his father.
Date: 2005-08-23
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: The Writers Place: A Home of Our Own
Description: Photos and article about the Writers Place, a castle-like converted church at "the corner of Pennsylvania and Valentine" Roads, renovated by Gloria Hickok, and her husband, Bill Hickok, both writers, and architect Len Fusco. History of the institution since its start in 1992 as "one of 11 literary centers stretching from Seattle to New York" for writers, with information about attending writers, poets, etc. (and home to Helicon Nine Editions literary press), including the late William Burroughs.
Date: 2000-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Local Authors: Writers Produce for Larger Readership
Description: Biographical description of Ann Slegman, author of the 1995 novel "Return to Sender" and of "nonfiction magazine articles" (formerly with "McCall's" magazine), etc.
Date: 1997
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Interview with Bob Slegman
Description: Interview with Bob Slegman about his life and his family's company Stern-Slegman-Prins. He recounts his family history and their start manufacturing silk blouses, and his paternal Slegman family and maternal Stern family partnering up as "jobbers" who distributed wholesale garments to retailers, later manufacturing ladies' coats and suits, and notes that many other prominent garment industry companies had their roots in Stern-Slegman-Prins. He discusses the high quality of local manufacturing, and the operations, financing, and demographics of the work force, as well as his entry into the family business and his service as an Army Air Corps meteorologist during World War II. He shares photographs and other stories about the company, including their inability to have a company outing at Fairyland Park due to having black employees, and discusses the decline of the local garment industry and changes in fashion and retail in the 1970s. Anne Brownfield appears to show off details of a Stern-Slegman-Prins manufactured "Betty Rose" coat.
Date: 2007-10-23
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Adele's Hallmark on Philanthropy
Description: This is the third in a series of articles paying tribute to people who have had a major impact on the continuing expansion and success of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Featured in this installment is Adele Hall, wife of Donald Hall of Hallmark Cards. Adele Hall and Morton Sosland were appointed co-chairpersons of the Generations Campaign started in 1997 with a goal of raising $200,000,000. Article notes her involvement with the museum. Includes her picture.
Date: 2007-05-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

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