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Title: Shawnee Indian Mission
Description: Partial frontal view of southeast bulding.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Shawnee Indian Mission
Description: Partial rear view of southeast bulding.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Shawnee Indian Mission
Description: Full frontal and side view of north building.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Shawnee Indian Mission
Description: Full frontal view of north building.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Shawnee Indian Mission
Description: Full frontal and side view of southwest building.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Shawnee Indian Mission
Description: Full frontal view of north building.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Shawnee Indian Mission
Description: Full frontal and side view of southwest building.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City - Points of Interest and Surroundings
Description: Illustrated novelty map of Kansas City area points of interest, attractions and sights.
Date: 1973
Object Type: Map

Title: SC40 Peery Family Papers Finding Aid
Description: The Peery family collection contains just over 600 letters including correspondence of John Thompson Peery, an early founder of Methodism in the Kansas City area, and his wife Mary Jane Chick Johnson Peery. Both lived and worked at one time in the 1840s-50s at the Shawnee Indian Mission. Also contains other Peery family member correspondence addressed to relatives in Oklahoma, Oregon, California, and other parts of Missouri. Bulk of the correspondence pertains to the Archibald Peery family and in particular to Horace J. Peery and his wife. Collection contains seven photographs.
Date: 1820/1913
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Restoration of the North Building at Shawnee Methodist Mission
Description: Photos and article about the restoration of the north building at the Shawnee Methodist Mission in Johnson County, Kansas in 1942 by Kansas state architect Roy Stookey and interior decorator George Dovel.
Date: 1942-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Witness of the Times
Description: Description of various existing landmarks of Territorial Kansas.
Date: 2004
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Biography of a Neighborhood
Description: Brief item describing the life of Joseph Parks. Parks came to own 1290 acres of land straddling Wyandotte and Johnson Counties as a result of the Treaty of 1854 with the Shawnee Indians.
Date: 1995-04
Object Type: Book

Title: Opening the Western Frontier: Rev. Thomas Johnson & the Shawnee Indian Mission [and associated articles]
Description: Article about the Methodist Shawnee Indian Missions in the 1830s near Turner, Kansas, and Westport, Missouri, and the family of missionary Reverend Thomas Johnson (1802-1865), with photos, maps, and illustrations. Description of Thomas Johnson, a native of Virginia and Methodist minister "appointed missionary to the Shawnee Indians" (his brother William Johnson appointed to the Kansas and Delaware Indians), arriving in Kansas and building the first mission building in 1830, killed at his home at 35th and Agnes Avenues in Kansas City "by parties unknown."
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Future: The Newsweekly for Today
Description: Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about drugstores, such as the Katz chain, that now sell other goods such as groceries, liquor, and general merchandise, and how they evade laws limiting the days traditional grocery and liquor stores can remain open. Other featured articles include: “We’ve Got the Equipment” (p. 2), regarding new forensic investigation techniques touted by J. Edgar Hoover that are employed by the Kansas City Police Department, including ballistics tools and black lights, and references the investigation into the mysterious death of Roland T. Owen at the President Hotel; “Kansas City—The New Newport” (pp. 3 & 8), about semi-legal gambling saloons or "salons" at 39th and Main Street, including the Fortune Skill Ball Salon and the 2925 Club, as well as another near 31st and Troost Avenue; “Gag” (p. 4), photo and article about Joseph Shannon, federal representative from Missouri and former Jackson County machine politician for the Democratic Party, regarding gag rules; and “May We Present Margaret Hillias” (p. 5), a photo and biographical article about Margaret Hillias, an actress at the Little Theater and other local theater groups ("Blackfriars, the Provincials, the Resident, as well as some lesser organizations"), leaving Kansas City for New York City to follow in the footsteps of Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, and Wallace Beery; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
Date: 1935-02-15
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: Being Shawnee in Territorial Kansas
Description: In-depth article about the Shawnee Reserve, Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854, missionaries, and white settlers encroaching on Indian lands.
Date: 2004
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Biography of Thomas Johnson (1802-1865), Methodist Minister and Missionary
Date: 2003
Object Type: Biography

Title: History of Johnson County, Kansas
Description: Recollections of the three Johnson County Indian missions by early resident, J.W. Parker. Locations of the missions are detailed, as is the location of an early church that stood "just at the entrance of Shawnee village" from the east.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Book

Title: Thomas Johnson
Description: Item describing the murder of Thomas Johnson by bushwhackers in 1865. Johnson, a founder of the Shawnee Methodist Mission, was shot through his front door by men attempting to rob his home.
Date: 1905-03-29
Object Type: Book

Title: Shawnee Indian Mission to Reopen with 'Reinterpretation'
Description: Article includes a mission timeline and talks about the museum, which had been closed since 2003, and its reopening.
Date: 2006-04-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: History of Johnson County, Kansas
Description: Recollections of William Johnson, son of the Rev. Thomas Johnson, founder of the Methodist Episcopal Shawnee Indian Mission in Johnson County. Johnson's recollections describe life at the mission, the laying out of the 2,240 acre mission farm, and the construction of mission buildings.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Book

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