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Federal Aviation Administration Employees
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1940~/1959~
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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City Employees
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Description
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Informal group photograph of city employees. City Manager L.P. Cookingham is in center.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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City Employees
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Description
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Interior group portrait of unidentified city employees.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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City Employees
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Description
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Interior group photograph of unidentified city employees.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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City Employees' Picnic
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Description
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Children listening to musician at the City Employees' Picnic.
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Date
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1947-08
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Object Type
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Photograph
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City Employees' Picnic
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Description
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Children on and around slide in unidentified park during City Employees' Picnic.
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Date
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1947-08
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Prominent Kansas Citians
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Description
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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.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Isis Theater
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Description
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Kansas City officials posed next to sightseeing bus before Isis Theater after attending luncheon celebrating the widening of Linwood Boulevard. Theater located on southwest corner of 31st and Troost.
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Date
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1927-09-03
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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L.P. Cookingham
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Description
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City Manager L.P. Cookingham and unidentified city employee with a model of City Hall, at Christmas.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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L. P. Cookingham
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Description
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City Manager L.P. Cookingham examining a model of City Hall, at Christmas.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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L. P. Cookingham
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City Manager L.P. Cookingham examining a model of City Hall, at Christmas.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Doubting the Benefits
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Description
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Discusses the recent decision by Hallmark officials to not offer domestic partner benefits to company employees and staff reaction.
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2001-04-26
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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SC193 Richards and Conover Hardware Company Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1854/1999
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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L.P. Cookingham and Staff
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Description
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Formal group portrait of City Manager L.P. Cookingham and staff. Probably taken in City Hall. Includes future mayor, William Kemp, 3rd from left.
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Date
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1942-08
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Due Date Arrives for Samuel Rodgers
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Description
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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."
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Date
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2011-12-30
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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It's the IRS, and It Has Our Attention
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Description
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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."
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Date
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2006-10-14
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Charles Smith, Kansas City Architect
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1905-06-11
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Object Type
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Book
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SC198 Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1915/1930
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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