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Title
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Glennon Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Glennon Hotel that once stood at 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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SC211 Merchants' Association Photograph Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection consists of a black and white photograph of a dinner held by the Merchants Association at the Hotel Muehlebach on June 28, 1945. President Harry Truman is seated at the head table.
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Date
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1945-06-28
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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The Place Where All Men Strive To Be: Harry S. Truman on the Eve of the 1934 Senate Campaign
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Description
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Two-part series detailing Harry S. Truman's early political career including his two terms as Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri. In the early 1930s Truman "began to write long memorandums to himself, or to posterity." Because he wrote his notes on stationery from the Pickwick Hotel, they are sometimes called the "Pickwick Papers." Article talks about Thomas J. Pendergast as the Democratic political boss of Kansas City and with whose support Truman declared candidacy for the Senate in 1934, his first political office, and won.
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Date
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2004
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Harry S. Truman in Chicago
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Description
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Vice President Harry S. Truman with Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly standing to his left at an event for the Irish Fellowship Club at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Other unidentified individuals are in view.
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Date
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1945-03-17
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on pages 3 and 8, about the election frauds in Kansas City government, with a photo of fraudulent signatures in a precinct book and a photo of Gil Bourk, promoter of "permanent registration." Other featured articles include: “Missouri Valley Authority” (p. 2), about a proposed Missouri analog of the New Deal Tennessee Valley Authority; “Better Driving” (p. 2), a notice about the decrease in automobile-related deaths in Kansas City from 14 in 1934 to 5 in 1935; “Harlem Afternoon” (pp. 2 & 5), about the village of Harlem, Missouri, on the north side of the Missouri River across from Kansas City, including an interview of "Captain Kade," former pilot of the Annie Cade ferryboat during the 1903 flood; and “May We Present Mrs. Herbert V. Jones” (p. 5), a portrait and biographical article about Mrs. Herbert Jones, or Eleanor Jones, president of the Women's City Club at the Gate City Bank Building in 1921, president of the Consumers' League in 1922, president of the League of Women Voters in 1932, and general chairman of the Jackson County women's work committee in 1933; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on sports, fashion, finance, cooking, music, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-02-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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SC205 Organized Crime Files - Series 5: Records and General Data
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Description
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This series contains miscellaneous police records, newspaper clippings, Kansas City Star staff correspondence, and information on various mafia members, including Charles Gargotta and several others listed in Series 2, all suspected of having ties to organized crime, mafia, and mob activity in Kansas City. Loose mug shots were removed and interfiled with Series1-3.
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Date
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1947/1959
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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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
