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Title
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Dixon Hotel
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Description
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National Register nomination form, item 7, page 1, for the Dixon Hotel at 1205 Baltimore Avenue.
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Object Type
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Report
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Title
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Dixon Hotel
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Description
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Information on the Dixon Hotel at 12th and Baltimore Avenues, demolished in 1985 to make way for One Kansas City Place, Kansas City's tallest building.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Dixon Hotel
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Description
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Postcard showing the Dixon Hotel that once stood on the southeast corner of 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
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Date
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1932~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Dixon and Sexton Hotel
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Description
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Full frontal view of the Dixon Hotel and the Sexton Hotel beside it. Located at 15 W. 12th. Also shows the Baltimore Shirt Company, Pennant Café, and Maze Theater located in the Dixon Hotel.
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Date
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1915
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dixon Hotel and Johnny Kling
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Description
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Baseball player and owner, Johnny Kling, was also an expert billiards player. He opened a hotel in 1912 called the Hotel Dixon which advertised that it had 39 Kling specially designed tables. It was located at 12th and Baltimore in downtown Kansas City.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Johnny Kling Again Host at the Hotel Dixon
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Description
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Short article describes baseball player Johnny Kling resuming management of the Hotel Dixon, a favorite with stockmen. Mr. Walter Gable continues as the general manager.
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Date
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1932-10-15
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Settlement Reached in Death of 114th Victim
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Description
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Information about John Dixon, a Warrensburg, Missouri, man killed by the collapse of the Hyatt Regency Hotel skywalk in Kansas City in 1981.
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Date
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1982-03-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Hotels in Kansas City
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Description
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The file includes articles about various Kansas City hotels and a copy of the National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form for "Hotels in the Downtown Area of Kansas City."
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Book Seeks to Restore Cub's Great Jewish Heritage
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Description
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A new book entitled Johnny Kling: A Baseball Biography by Gil Bogen has recently been published. The author contends that Kling was Jewish although Kling's wife Lillian asserted he was not. Kling was a catcher for the Chicago Cubs from 1900-1911. He owned the Dixon Hotel in Kansas City and the Strand in Chillicothe, Missouri. He was also a professional billiards player as well as part owner of the Kansas City Blues baseball team.
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Date
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2006-04-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Stars Abound at Kling & Allen Recreation
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Description
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Description of Kling & Allen Recreation lounge, the "deluxe billiard parlor in the Dixon Hotel on 12th Street," host to such luminaries as Bob Hope and Willie Mosconi, with photo of Bennie Allen, "National Snooker Champion" and operator of the "luxurious billiard parlor" along with "Mrs. Lillian Kling, widow of the late great baseball catcher, Johnnie Kling."
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Modishly Moorish in Kansas City
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Description
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Photo, map, and article about the Raphael Hotel at 325 Ward Parkway, built in opulent "Moorish" architectural style as part of the Country Club Plaza in the 1920s.
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Date
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1991-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Quality Hill--A Study in Heredity
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Description
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Thorough article about the early history of Quality Hill on the west side of Downtown in "post-bellum Kansas City," and the area's ethnic and genealogical traditions. Numerous details about contrasts between Northern and Southern citizens' customs, addresses, and titles, with other information such as street name origins, etc.
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Date
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1941-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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P32 Richard Corliss Photograph Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Richard Corliss was born in Springfield, Massachussetts, in 1915 and moved to Kansas City in 1944. He worked as a freelance photographer, capturing scenes for sale to local news agencies. His collection consists of 46 photographs of varying sizes. Most are black and white. The photographs, shot between approximately 1945 and 1960, are of local personalities and visiting celebrities, accidents, disasters, and other news events. Notable are several photographs of the Truman family after their return to Independence.
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Date
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1945~/1960~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Ramos Vertical File List
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Description
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A list of the file names in the Ramos collection. This collection includes books, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and vertical files relating to the African American experience. Begun around 1920 by librarians at Kansas City Public Library's Lincoln High School Branch, the John F. Ramos Collection contains information on both local and national topics. Other resources can be found by searching the online catalog.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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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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