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Title: Hotel President Banquet Department
Description: Group portrait of the Hotel President banquet department in front of a scenic backdrop. They are pictured between two grand pianos.
Date: 1927-12-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Saving the President Hotel
Description: Article chronicles the process of saving the President Hotel from destruction, starting in the early 1990s when the Historic Kansas City Foundation placed the hotel on its "Endangered Building List" and culminating with its opening in January 2006 as the Hilton President Kansas City.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: No-Tell Hotel
Description: Article describing Kansas City's attempts to revitalize the Downtown area through tax increment financing (TIF). The article examines convention activity vis-à-vis the possible restoration of the President Hotel.
Date: 2002-08-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hotel President: Good Food, Walnut Room, Coffee Shop, Rounup Cocktail Bar
Description: Illustration and ad for the "Hotel President" or President Hotel (shown next to the Kansas City Power & Light Building and Municipal Auditorium) at 14th and Baltimore Avenues with its own restaurant, the Walnut Room, and Roundup Cocktail Bar.
Date: 1936-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Drum Roll Please
Description: Color photograph of the restored entry of the Drum Room of the now historic Hilton President Kansas City Hotel that reopened in June 2006.
Date: 2006-08-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Drum Roll, Please, as Dining Spot is Reborn
Description: After being closed for 25 years, the Drum Room in the Hotel President is due to open on May 10, 2006. The restaurant opened in 1941 and such celebrities as Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, the Marx Brothers and Sammy Davis, Jr. performed there. "It has been rebuilt with a contemporary interior design that honors its past with black-and-white photographs of jazz greats and a restored 280-square-foot mural of South Sea islanders that was painted for the room in 1941 by New York artist Winold Reiss." Article includes a picture of the interior of the room as well as the Drum Room sign on the outside of the hotel.
Date: 2006-05-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Research Hospital Nurses Home
Description: Interior view of guests at Research Hospital Nurses Home's Junior-Senior Banquet held at President Hotel.
Date: 1949-03-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Off Beat
Description: Review of the renovated and reopened Drum Room at the President Hotel, located in downtown Kansas City.
Date: 2007-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 43rd Annual Inaugural Installation Banquet and Ball
Description: Interior view of this South Central Business Association event held at the Hotel President on January 26, 1963. Those lined up are believed to be the Officers and Directors of the organization for 1963. They are named in the souvenir program for the evening found in Scrapbook #39, 1963, page 6.
Date: 1963-01-26
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Street
Description: Looking north along Baltimore from just south of 14th.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 41st Anniversary Inaugural Dinner Dance
Description: Interior view of the head table, South Central Business Association 41st Anniversary Inaugural Dinner Dance held at the Hotel President on January 28, 1961. Officials of organization shown standing behind head table taking the oath of office.
Date: 1961-01-28
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Junior-Senior Banquet - Research Hospital Nurses Home
Description: Group portrait of the junior-senior banquet for the Research Hospital Nurses Home at the President Hotel.
Date: 1949-03-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 29th Annual Inaugural Dinner Dance
Description: View of the 29th Annual Inaugural Dinner Dance held by the South Central Business Association at the Hotel President.
Date: 1949-01-25
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 30th Annual Inaugural Dinner Dance
Description: View of the 30th annual Inaugural Dinner Dance of the South Central Business Association held at the Hotel President.
Date: 1950-01-24
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 25th Silver Anniversary Inaugural Dinner Dance
Description: View of the 25th silver anniversary Inaugural Dinner Dance of the South Central Business Association held at the President Hotel.
Date: 1945-01-23
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th Anniversary Inaugural Dinner and Ball
Description: View of Saint Louis, Missouri, mayor, Raymond R. Tucker at the podium speaking at the 39th Anniversary Inaugural dinner and ball held at the Hotel President in downtown Kansas City at 14th and Baltimore. According to the evening's program he was the "Distinguished Speaker of the Evening" and his speech was titled: "Citizen Participation and Neighborhood Rehabilitation".
Date: 1959-01-24
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Street
Description: Looking north along Baltimore from 15th.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 28th Annual Inaugural Dinner Dance
Description: Attendees of the 28th annual Inaugural Dinner Dance of the South Central Business Association held at the Hotel President.
Date: 1948-01-27
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Jack Dempsey and Hal Sherman
Description: Heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey spanking comic actor Hal Sherman over his knee at the Hotel President. Sherman's wife is standing next to them holding an oversize boxing glove.
Date: 1931-11-18
Object Type: Negative

Title: 26th Annual Inaugural Dinner Dance
Description: View of the 26th annual Inaugural Dinner Dance of the South Central Business Association held at the Hotel President.
Date: 1946-01-22
Object Type: Photograph

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