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Title
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The Kansas City Centennial
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Description
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Photos (including J. F. Richards), illustrations, and history of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company founded by John Richards (1834-1922) in Leavenworth in 1857 before being moved to Kansas City in 1875.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Description
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Biographical sketch of John Francisco Richards, or John Richards, "head of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company," "vice-president of the First National Bank of Kansas City," and co-organizer of "the municipal ownership of the water works." Born in Virginia in 1834 and moving to Sibley, Missouri in 1850 before coming to Kansas City in 1887 as a hardware merchant.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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John F. Richards
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Description
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Portrait view of John Richards, identified as “Kansas City Pioneers†with name written on back of photograph.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Who's Who in Kansas City
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Description
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Portraits and biographical article about John Richards, "president [of the] Richards & Conover Hardware Company." Born in Virginia in 1834 and moving to Sibley, Missouri in 1849 before becoming a western trader to the Rocky Mountains in 1852 and coming to Kansas City in 1875.
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Date
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1921-07-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Richards Field, First Kansas City Commercial Airport
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Description
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Photos and history of the first Richards Field, established in 1922 as Kansas City's first commercial airport by Major Howard Wehrle, Fred Harvey, Simpson Yeomans, Roger Crittenden, and Robert Lester, and named for Lieutenant John Richards II, a fellow Kansas Citian pilot killed in World War I. Description of the airport's becoming obsolete for "modern" airplanes of the late 1920s and being replaced by an airport in 1927 closer to downtown Kansas City, "first known as New Richards Field and then Municipal Airport," and later as Downtown Airport.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section