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Title: The Shape of Things to Come: A Glimpse into the Future, from Six Designers Who Mold Our World
Description: Photo and biographical sketch of Kansas City architect Robert J. "Bob" Berkebile, or Robert Berkebile, designer of the Deramus Education Pavilion at the Kansas City Zoo, one of the fewer than ten buildings in the world meeting "the American Institute of Architecture's goals for sustainable, or environmentally friendly, architecture." Description of his methods in architecture, including the Deramus buiding and his role as "principal in charge of the Hyatt Regency Hotel" during its collapse.
Date: 1993-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Renewal and Revival of Greensburg
Description: When one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded struck Greensburg, Kansas, May 4, 2007, little of the town was left. Leaders of the town chose to rebuild using sustainable, "green" designs. Kansas Governor Sebelius recruited the architectural firm BNIM, known for establishing national green building standards, to work with FEMA on the town's long-term recovery.
Date: 2008-04
Object Type: Magazine 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: Design Saviors
Description: Article describes Kansas City building projects that strive to follow the American Institute of Architects' sustainability standards, known as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). The Kansas City Internal Revenue Service campus near Union Station is named as an example of LEED-inspired building design.
Date: 2007-02-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

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