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Title
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Gayety Theater
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Description
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Full frontal and side view.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Aladdin's Needs a Genie
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Description
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Review of Aladdin's Restaurant.
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Date
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2000-04-27
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Gayety Theater
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Description
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Full frontal and side view.
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Date
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1945
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Gayety Theater
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Description
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Full frontal and side view.
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Date
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1930
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Gayety Theater
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Description
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Full frontal and side view; located on southeast corner of 12th and Wyandotte.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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A New Stripe
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Description
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Review of the Zebra Room restaurant at the Aladdin Hotel, 1215 Wyandotte. The original Zebra Room dates back to the 1920s and was a popular nightspot. The refurbished Aladdin Hotel reopened in May 2007 after being closed the last three years. It was previously a Holiday Inn.
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Date
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2007-08-26
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Municipal Auditorium
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Description
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Distant partial frontal view, looking southeast. Also shows Muehlebach Hotel and Towers, Aladdin Hotel, Kansas City Power and Light Building, and Auditorium Plaza Garage.
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Date
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1956-07-22
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1939-1958, Page p027
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from W. 11th Street south to W. 13th Street and from Wyandotte east to Baltimore, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1939/1958
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Barney Allis Plaza
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Description
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View of the Barney Allis Plaza park located on the top of the Municipal Auditorium Plaza Garage, looking toward the south/southeast. Photograph taken from near the intersection of 12th and Central streets. View shows left to right the Muehlebach Hotel, Aladdin Hotel, Power and Light Building, Municipal Auditorium, and entrance to the parking garage.
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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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Title
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Obituaries: Phillip T. Drotts
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Description
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Designed mainly church units, including Nazarene Theological Seminary at 1700 Meyer Boulevard, the Nazarene Publishing House, Hotel Aladdin, and Hotel LaSalle.
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Date
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1960-05-17
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Union Station and Skyline
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Description
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View looking north from the grounds of the Liberty Memorial of Union Station with the Kansas City skyline in the background. Several cars in the stations lot can be seen.
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Date
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1945~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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P12 Henry D. Green Scrapbook Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection is composed of 69 black and white photographs of varying sizes and nine sketches and features business buildings compiled in scrapbook form by Henry D. Green in 1926-1928. Most of the pictures have a letterhead and logo of the company accompanying the picture. Besides office buildings, there are a few photographs of banks, hotels, and theaters.
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Date
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1926/1929
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC13-1 Missouri Valley Special Collections Postcard Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This postcard collection includes a wide variety of subjects such as buildings, parks, streets, people, and festivals. Although the cards cover a wide geographical area, the two major portions of the collection are cards referring to Kansas City and St. Louis. Most are in color and originate from the early 20th century. Only one image has been digitized.
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC89 Jason Rogers Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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Jason Rogers was born in New York City in 1868. He dropped out of grammar school and worked his way up in the journalism trade to become an expert in newspaper publishing and advertising. He was the author of several books on newspaper building and, after leaving the "New York Globe" in 1923, started his own business in newspaper advising. Walter Dickey, publisher of the "Kansas City Journal-Post," hired him in 1926 to help build up the newspapers' position versus their rival the "Kansas City Star."
This small collection includes correspondence and supporting materials such as clippings, speeches, statistics, and advertisements which date from the period of Rogers' association with the "Kansas City Journal-Post." The collection provides valuable insights into the newspaper publishing industry in the 1920s, in particular the rivalry between the Journal-Post and Kansas City Star.
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Date
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1923/1929
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC224 Historic Kansas City Foundation Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Historic Kansas City Foundation is a nonprofit organization that advocates for the preservation and rehabilitation of historic buildings, landscapes, and neighborhoods in Kansas City. This collection contains photographs and supporting documents, publications about preservation, and building and neighborhood pamphlets documenting the preservation efforts of the organization.
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Date
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1886~/2009~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC58 Mrs. Sam Ray Postcard Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Mildred Kittell Ray was born in Halstead, Kansas, on September 22, 1895. An avid collector of postcards (buttons, too), Mrs. Ray, at the age of 72, initiated a column in the Kansas City Times and Kansas City Star entitled "A Postcard from Old Kansas City." The columns ran for 23 years. They proved to be extremely popular with the reading public, and two selected sets of articles were collected and published in book form; the first volume won a national design award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. The collection consists of over 16,000 postcards and materials associated with Mrs. Ray's writing career. Subjects in the postcards include Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas, the other states of the US, a large number of foreign countries, an assortment of different topics (humor, holidays, etc.), and card format (wood, leather, copper, etc.). Items related to Mrs. Ray's career as a writer include: correspondence; research materials such as newspaper clippings and handwritten notes; draft, manuscript, and published versions of early "pre-postcard" historical articles; postcard articles that were rejected by the publisher; and the texts of lectures and presentations given by Mrs. Ray. Graphic materials make up another part of the collection, with items like advertising envelopes, ephemera from Emery, Bird, Thayer, and a number of photographs. An audiotape of a speech given by Dick Ray (Mrs. Ray's son), on February 13, 1998, at the official debut of the Library's online version of the newspaper column is included in the collection.
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Date
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1890/1998
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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