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Title: Gayety Theater
Description: View looking southwest of the Gayety Theater, once located at 12th and Wyandotte streets. The Aladdin Hotel can be seen in the background. Street railway tracks along 12th Street can be seen. A sign reads: Gayety - Peppy, Mutual, Burlesque. View looking southeast of the Gayety Theater, once located at 12th and Wyandotte streets. A car, pedestrians, and street railway tracks can be seen. The Hotel Muehlebach (left) and the Aladdin Hotel (right) are in view.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Obituaries: Phillip T. Drotts
Description: Designed mainly church units, including Nazarene Theological Seminary at 1700 Meyer Boulevard, the Nazarene Publishing House, Hotel Aladdin, and Hotel LaSalle.
Date: 1960-05-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Celebrating Preservation: 2007 HKCF Preservation Awards
Description: Article on 2007 Preservation Awards includes information about the renovation of the following properties: Park Lane Apartments, Aladdin Hotel, Christian Church Hospital(Residences at West Paseo), Blossom House, Girls Club, Longview Farm Elementary School, Fire Station #9, President Hotel, and TWA Corporate Headquarters Building.
Date: 2007
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Union Station and Skyline
Description: 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.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Looking East on 13th Street from Washington
Description: View facing east along 13th Street from its intersection with Washington Street in Quality Hill. A sign advertising Cities Service Oil Company is in view. The Aladdin Hotel Building can be seen in the background. Cars and pedestrians along 13th Street are in view.
Date: 1952-09-26
Object Type: Photograph

Title: P12 Henry D. Green Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1926/1929
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC13-1 Missouri Valley Special Collections Postcard Collection Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC89 Jason Rogers Papers Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1923/1929
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC224 Historic Kansas City Foundation Collection Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1886~/2009~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC58 Mrs. Sam Ray Postcard Collection Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1890/1998
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Southeast High School Yearbook - The Crusader
Description: Yearbook for the 1970 class of Southeast High School.
Date: 1970
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Southeast High School Yearbook - The Crusader
Description: Yearbook for the 1972 class of Southeast High School.
Date: 1972
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Center High School Yearbook - The Yellowjacket
Description: Yearbook for the 1995 class of Center High School.
Date: 1995
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: SC223 Folly Theater Collection Finding Aid
Description: Open since 1900, the Folly Theater has assumed several names and identities over the decades, from a vaudeville, burlesque, and Shakespearean playhouse to an X-rated movie theater. Today, it serves as Kansas City’s oldest performing arts venue. The Folly Theater Collection contains photographs, scrapbooks, posters, administrative and financial records, building blueprints, and various artifacts that document the theater’s diverse history.
Date: 1877/2014
Object Type: Finding Aid