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Title: Bannister Mall's Costly Lesson
Description: Article cites Bannister Mall as an example of the Kansas City area's failure to practice sustainable development. Suburban sprawl will cost the area large sums to build new infrastructure, according to the Mid-America Regional Council. More compact development areas, redeveloping older parts of cities, and increased use of mass transit are urged by MARC.
Date: 2010-09-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Big Honor for BNIM
Description: The American Institute of Architects named the Kansas City architectural firm of BNIM as firm of the year for 2011, �??the group�??s highest honor given to a company.�?� �??Recognized for its distinguished contributions to architecture and for its pioneering efforts in promoting and practicing sustainable, environmentally conscious design,�?� BNIM has designed several area buildings like the Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, among many others. It�??s also won numerous awards including the top design honor from the AIA/Kansas City for its K-12 school campus in Greensburg, Kansas.
Date: 2010-12-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Main Street, Cyclone Damage
Description: Exterior view of the 500 block on Main Street that sustained damage from a tornado in Kansas City, Missouri. One of the destroyed buildings was the Jones Dry Goods Store (557 & 561 Main Street). The building in the forefront sold playing cards. The sign remaining on the window says "DOERR/603/...of PLAYING CARDS," and what looks like a cigar store Indian also remains with the words Playing Cards on its base. Written on the front of the photograph in ink, "wrecked by cyclone K. C. Mo." The 1899 Kansas City city directory has a Chris Doerr at 603 Main Street listed as cigar manufacturer.
Date: 1899-11-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: P31 Nelly Don Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Nelly Don Collection contains 35 black and white photographic prints donated to the Missouri Valley Special Collections in August 2001. The donor's aunt had been an employee of the Donnelly Garment Company and had collected these photographs. Few of the individuals in the photographs are identified, and many images are not dated. The photographs largely consist of Donnelly Garment Company employee group portraits on holiday and otherwise festive occasions.Nell Donnelly Reed was born Ellen Quinlan in Parsons, Kansas, 1889, and moved to Kansas City in 1906. She began designing and sewing her own housedresses, several of which she offered for sale to the George B. Peck Dry Goods Company in 1916. By 1931 she owned the Donnelly Garment Company, which manufactured the widely known "Nelly Don" line of women's apparel. Reed retired in 1956, and the organization's name was changed to Nelly Don, Inc. The company evolved throughout the 1960s and 70s, although the changing economic climate of the nation eventually brought its demise. The selling of fabrics was a sustaining innovation of the 1970s, but Nelly Don, Inc., filed for Chapter 10 bankruptcy in 1978.
Date: 1920~/1950~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: The World's Most Beautiful Farm
Description: Issue commemorating the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the construction of Longview Farm. Soon after settling into the newly built Corinithan Hall in Kansas City in 1910, R. A. Long decided to purchase and develop a tract of land into a self-sustaining farm operation in Lee's Summit. The issue details building the farm, focusing on the main residence, show horse barn, and dairy barn.
Date: 2013
Object Type: Magazine

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: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 3]
Description: Volume three of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 2]
Description: Volume two of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Pembroke Hill Country Day School Yearbook - The Raider
Description: Yearbook for the 1960 class of Pembroke Hill Country Day School.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Yearbook