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Title: Many Attend Rites for Mrs. E. Garrett
Description: Vertical file contains a photo and obituary for Mrs. Eva Garrett, co-owner and operator of the Radio Cab and Baggage Company. She was born in 1886 and married in 1903 to a teacher at Sumner High School in Kansas City, Kansas before operating her cab company for the last 20 years of her life with her son, Frank Garrett, Jr. Her residence was at 2505 Michigan Avenue.
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Taxi and Driver
Description: Yellow Cab Company taxi with driver, near street sign reading W. 11th Street.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Walden W. Shaw Auto Livery
Description: Unidentified driver in taxi sitting before the Walden W. Shaw Auto Livery; located at 1912-1914 Grand Avenue.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Yellow Cab
Description: Full side view of Yellow Cab on unidentified portion of 11th Street.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Union Station
Description: View of Union Station, looking toward the northeast. Shows the Union Station east front main entrance. Taxi cabs are lined up in front as well as other cars.
Date: 1955-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Arthur W. Lawson Is Killed: Cab Firm Head Hit by Truck
Description: Vertical file containing a photo and obituary for Arthur Lawson, "53, president of the Consolidated Cab company," who was "fatally injured" when "struck by a truck." Lawson was born in Bunceton, Missouri and came to Kansas City in with his family in 1902. His Consolidated Cab Company was located at 2331 Vine Street, and his residence was with his mother at 2930 Mersington Avenue.
Date: 1953-09-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City in Caricature
Description: Illustrated caricature of Frank Updegraff, general manager of the Blue Taxicab & Baggage Company.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: Liberty Memorial
Description: Photograph taken from Union Station looking toward the south across Pershing Road, with the full north side of the Liberty Memorial in the view. Automobiles, including taxicabs, can be seen parked in the Union Station parking lot in foreground as well as a clock situated in the lot.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Quarter Century Cabby
Description: Photos, ad, and biographical article about W. C. Toedman, organizer of the Toedman Cab Company in 1925 with "new plant at 3834 Main Street." Toedman also "a past president and a director of the Uptown Business and Improvement Association."
Date: 1950-09-22
Object Type: Magazine Article