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Title
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Main Street, Cyclone Damage
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Description
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Exterior view of the 500 block on Main Street that sustained damage from a tornado in Kansas City, Missouri. One of the destroyed buildings was the Jones Dry Goods Store (557 & 561 Main Street). The building in the forefront sold playing cards. The sign remaining on the window says "DOERR/603/...of PLAYING CARDS," and what looks like a cigar store Indian also remains with the words Playing Cards on its base. Written on the front of the photograph in ink, "wrecked by cyclone K. C. Mo." The 1899 Kansas City city directory has a Chris Doerr at 603 Main Street listed as cigar manufacturer.
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1899-11-05
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Indian Now on Private Sentry Duty in KC
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Description
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Story of the cigar-store wooden Indian which for more than 50 years identified the Reardon Tobacco Company at 709 Main Street. The Reardons called him "Johnny Swift Wing" and the statue eventually got into the antique collection of local collector and Buick car dealer Jerry Smith. It recently sold for $22,000 and was bought by Smith's daughter, so the piece is still in Kansas City. Story also mentions "Indian Hunter," a wooden Indian also collected by Smith, that used to be on the Independence square. "Smith, who died in 1984, collected for more than 25 years, and amassed more than 11,000 antique toys and unique pieces of Americana. His greatest joy was exhibiting this amazing treasure trove as a natural fundraiser, helping charities."
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Date
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2008-10-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
