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Title: SC125 David H. Perkins Papers Finding Aid
Description: The David H. Perkins Papers contain correspondence, publications, writings, photographs, artwork, and ephemera created and collected by David H. Perkins over the course of his life. A life-long Kansas City area resident, Perkins was a writer, editor, teacher, critic, and activist with interests in literature, art, politics, and urban and housing development projects. The collection consists of professional and personal materials.
Date: 2014-10
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Book Seeks to Restore Cub's Great Jewish Heritage
Description: 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.
Date: 2006-04-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Dixon Hotel and Johnny Kling
Description: 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.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Modishly Moorish in Kansas City
Description: 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.
Date: 1991-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Settlement Reached in Death of 114th Victim
Description: Information about John Dixon, a Warrensburg, Missouri, man killed by the collapse of the Hyatt Regency Hotel skywalk in Kansas City in 1981.
Date: 1982-03-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Stars Abound at Kling & Allen Recreation
Description: 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."
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Quality Hill--A Study in Heredity
Description: 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.
Date: 1941-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Johnny Kling Again Host at the Hotel Dixon
Description: 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.
Date: 1932-10-15
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 12th Street, East from Wyandotte
Description: Postcard of 12th Street facing east from Wyandotte Street.
Date: 1931-10-01
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Dixon and Sexton Hotel
Description: 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.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

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: 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 1]
Description: Volume one of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Dixon Hotel
Description: National Register nomination form, item 7, page 1, for the Dixon Hotel at 1205 Baltimore Avenue.
Object Type: Report

Title: Dixon Hotel
Description: 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.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Ramos Vertical File List
Description: 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.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Hotels in Kansas City
Description: 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."
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Sexton Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Sexton Hotel, once located at 15-17 W. 12th Street.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Dixon Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Dixon Hotel.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Storefronts on 12th Street
Description: Storefronts along south side of 12th between Baltimore and Main. Shows part of the sidewalk entry for the Dixon Hotel and the Sexton Hotel next door. Entrance to the Maze Theater is in view.
Date: 1916~
Object Type: Photograph

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