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Hotel President Banquet Department
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Description
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Group portrait of the Hotel President banquet department in front of a scenic backdrop. They are pictured between two grand pianos.
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Date
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1927-12-10
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Saving the President Hotel
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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President Jimmy Carter
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Description
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President Jimmy Carter and William C. Speidel, General Manager of the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel, in the lobby of that hotel. Other individuals in the photograph are unidentified.
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Date
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1979-10
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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President Jimmy Carter
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Description
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President Jimmy Carter shaking hands with William C. Speidel, General Manager of the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The Carters stayed at the hotel while President Carter was in town to address the National Conference of Catholic Charities.
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Date
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1979-10-15
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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President Jimmy Carter Visit
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Description
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The back of First Lady Rosalyn Carter is shown shaking hands with William C. Speidel. His name tag denotes him as General Manager. The Carters stayed at the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel on their stay in Kansas City where President Carter addressed the National Conference of Catholic Charities. Collection also has a color photograph of this pose.
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Date
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1979-10-15
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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No-Tell Hotel
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2002-08-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Hotel President: Good Food, Walnut Room, Coffee Shop, Rounup Cocktail Bar
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1936-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Drum Roll Please
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Description
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Color photograph of the restored entry of the Drum Room of the now historic Hilton President Kansas City Hotel that reopened in June 2006.
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Date
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2006-08-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Drum Roll, Please, as Dining Spot is Reborn
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2006-05-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Research Hospital Nurses Home
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Description
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Interior view of guests at Research Hospital Nurses Home's Junior-Senior Banquet held at President Hotel.
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Date
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1949-03-12
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dixon Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Dixon Hotel.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Midland Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Midland Hotel.
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Date
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1900~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Baltimore Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Baltimore Hotel
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Off Beat
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Description
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Review of the renovated and reopened Drum Room at the President Hotel, located in downtown Kansas City.
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Date
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2007-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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43rd Annual Inaugural Installation Banquet and Ball
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1963-01-26
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Baltimore Street
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Description
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Looking north along Baltimore from just south of 14th.
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Date
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1930
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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41st Anniversary Inaugural Dinner Dance
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1961-01-28
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The President and Mrs. Harding Come to Call
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Description
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Photos and articles about President and Mrs. Warren Harding on their visit to Kansas City, greeted by people in the streets from Union Station to the Plaza, touring the city and staying at the Hotel Muehlebach after a speech at Saint Louis.
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Date
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1923-06-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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