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Title: Federal Aviation Administration Employees
Description: A group of 24 black and white photographs associated with the Federal Aviation Administration. These include varying sizes taken in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes snapshots as well as 8x10 in. official group photographs. Some of the pictures were taken in Kansas City and others may have been taken in Oklahoma City, Washington, D.C., etc. Group poses taken in Kansas City were generally taken in front of City Hall. Identification is provided with most of the images. Includes poses of the United States Weather Bureau officials and the first CMTIC conference held in Kansas City in 1948.
Date: 1940~/1959~
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Biography of L. P. Cookingham (1896-1992), Kansas City's First City Manager
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Prominent Kansas Citians
Description: File contains copies from Kansas City newspapers with pictures of "prominent Kansas Citians." Some are undated but most date from the 1920s and 1930s, although one item, "Growth Along All Lines is Marked," appears to be from the early 1900s.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: SC205 Organized Crime Files - Series 4: Unione Sicilione
Description: This series contains photographs, miscellaneous documents,and newspaper clippings pertaining to the Sicilian-American criminal brotherhood known as the Unione Sicilione, or Unione Siciliana, and individuals suspected of having ties to organized crime, mafia, and mob activity in Kansas City.
Date: 1950/1961
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Doubting the Benefits
Description: Discusses the recent decision by Hallmark officials to not offer domestic partner benefits to company employees and staff reaction.
Date: 2001-04-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC193 Richards and Conover Hardware Company Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Richards and Conover Hardware Company was started in 1857 by John Francisco Richards and continued to operate as a family-owned business until it closed in 1999. This collection, donated by a former president of the company and descendant of John F. Richards, consists of the business records created and maintained by the company’s owners and employees.
Date: 1854/1999
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Due Date Arrives for Samuel Rodgers
Description: Article about the opening of the Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center planned for January 3, 2012. The contruction project took several years of fundraising and 16 months of construction at a cost of $25 million. Officials of the 68,000-square-foot facility that serves some of the city's poorest residents, said the new facility will allow them "to treat more patients adequately and finally hire the doctors, nurses and other employees they've needed for some time."
Date: 2011-12-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: It's the IRS, and It Has Our Attention
Description: Article describes the $370 million Internal Revenue Service processing center, located near Union Station, which will be officially dedicated on October 16, 2006. The author reports that the center's peak level of 8,000 employees during tax season "will single-handedly add about 8 percent to the downtown employment base of about 100,000."
Date: 2006-10-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC205 Organized Crime Files - Series 3: Hoods Who Spotlight on Organized Crime in the Kansas City Area
Description: Booklet intended to inform the public of the dangers of organized crime in Kansas City. The book contains: a summary of successful prosecution of syndicate members or associates from January 1, 1961 to present (April 1970); the Kefauver Senate Committee underworld charts for Kansas City organized crime activities, Exhibits 1 and 1A; a list of members and associates of the syndicate; the danger signs for the community; and a list of syndicate business connections.
Date: 1970-04
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: SC205 Organized Crime Files - Series 5: Records and General Data
Description: This series contains miscellaneous police records, newspaper clippings, Kansas City Star staff correspondence, and information on various mafia members, including Charles Gargotta and several others listed in Series 2, all suspected of having ties to organized crime, mafia, and mob activity in Kansas City. Loose mug shots were removed and interfiled with Series1-3.
Date: 1947/1959
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Charles Smith, Kansas City Architect
Description: Biographical sketch of Charles Ashley Smith, or Charles Smith (1866-1948), a prominent Kansas City architect. Native of Ohio coming to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1887 as a draftsman for architect William Hackney and taking over after Hackney's death in 1898 "as official architect for the Kansas City, Missouri Board of Education." Designer and co-designer of many buildings in Kansas City, Missouri, and the following in Kansas City, Kansas, with employee Arthur Hall: "the George H. Gray residence in Westheight Manor, built in 1924"; "the Tudor Style Fire Station No. 11 at 3100 State Avenue"; "the six-story Anderson Storage Co. Warehouse at 736-738 Armstrong, built in 1925"; "the rural White Church Elementary School of 1926-27"; and "the Woods Bros. Corporation's new Fairfax Airport."
Date: 1905-06-11
Object Type: Book

Title: SC198 Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains items relating to the Willows Maternity Home, which operated at 2929 Main in Kansas City, Missouri from 1905 to 1969. Also known as the Willows Maternity Sanitarium or the Willows Maternity Hospital, the institution served as an adoption service and private, temporary home for unwed mothers.
Date: 1915/1930
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 1]
Description: Volume one of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: SC8-2 Local Schools Collection Finding Aid
Description: This Local Schools Collection consists of various pamphlets, booklets, brochures, etc., about different types of area schools. It does not include the public schools.
Date: 1910/1960
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Wyandotte High School Yearbook - Quiverian
Description: Yearbook for the 1983 class of Wyandotte High School.
Date: 1983
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Shawnee Mission North High School Yearbook - Indian
Description: Yearbook for the 1960 class of Shawnee Mission North High School.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Bishop Miege High School Yearbook - The Miegian
Description: Yearbook for the 1962 class of Bishop Miege High School.
Date: 1962
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Center High School Yearbook - The Yellowjacket
Description: Yearbook for the 1979 class of Center High School.
Date: 1979
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Shawnee Mission West High School Yearbook - Saga
Description: Yearbook for the 1974 class of Shawnee Mission West High School.
Date: 1974
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Southeast High School Yearbook - The Crusader
Description: Yearbook for the 1943 class of Southeast High School.
Date: 1943
Object Type: Yearbook

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