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Title: Municipal Auditorium
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Forward Steps: Kansas City's New Municipal Auditorium
Description: Photo and description of the new Municipal Auditorium.
Date: 1936-06
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Surging Forward
Description: This printed program for the play "Surging Forward: A Pageant of Unionism" was presented by International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union at the Music Hall of Municipal Auditorium. Besides having advertisements for local garment companies and other unions, it includes an article called "Surging Forward in the State of Missouri" by Meyer Perlstein, Manager of the Southwestern Regional Department of the unon, that describes some of the history of the garment industry unions and its role in Missouri.
Date: 1936-08-29
Object Type: Pamphlet

Title: Music Hall Prepped For its Next 70 Years
Description: A $13.4 million renovation of the Music Hall is about to begin with completion in February, 2007. The Music Hall opened in 1935 with its art deco fixtures and styling. With the renovation the stage will be 15 feet deeper and much infrastructure will get modernized. "The theater's 2,400 seats will be replaced with slightly wider chairs and then realigned for better audience sight lines." The city will use the old seats elsewhere including the City Council's meeting chambers. Renovation design is being done by Helix Architecture + Design, Kansas City and Holzman Moss Architecture, New York.
Date: 2006-07-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: About Town
Description: Description of the speech rostrum co-designed by Clarence Mook ("then auditorium building superintendent") for the October 13, 1936 Municipal Auditorium dedication speech by President Franklin Roosevelt. Designed specially for the president's wheelchair but later lost.
Date: 1969-01-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: In a Wild Greeting
Description: Photos and description of the capacity crowd speech at the auditorium by President Roosevelt about Depression youth programs.
Date: 1936-10-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Roosevelt Today
Description: Description with map of the route through the city of President Roosevelt's "party," on his visit to the city for a speech at Municipal Auditorium.
Date: 1936-10-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Exterior view, Wyandotte Street side of Municipal Auditorium, looking southwest.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: View of Municipal Auditorium Arena, filled for an Easter Service. Identified on the photograph as: "Easter services, Dr. Burris Jenkins, Municipal Auditorium, April 17, 1938."
Date: 1938-04-17
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Little Theater in Municipal Auditorium
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Interior view of stairways in Municipal Auditorium.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Partial view of empty Municipal Auditorium arena.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Interior view of the arena in Municipal Auditorium packed with people. Identified on photograph as: "President Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech at the new Kansas City Municipal Auditorium, October 13, 1936." President Roosevelt may be standing at the podium.
Date: 1936-10-13
Object Type: Negative

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: View of main foyer, empty
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: View of Music Hall, empty
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Partial view of empty Municipal Auditorium arena.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: View of arena in Municipal Auditorium during an unspecified event.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Elizabeth Wilkinson Vaughan
Description: Obituary notice for Elizabeth Vaughan who died May 14, 2005, at the age of 97. She was a professional concert soprano for five decades. "Her voice often could be heard on the radio on KCKN-AM. Elizabeth was the soloist when the Municipal Auditorium was dedicated in 1936. She was a frequent performer at the annual Kansas Day activities at the American Royal." Her husband was Joseph H. Vaughan, owner of Joe Vaughan Men's Clothing, Inc.
Date: 2005-08-20
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: View of the empty exhibit hall of Municipal Auditorium.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: View of unidentified interior doorway in Municipal Auditorium.
Object Type: Photograph

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