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Title: Library World News: Circulation Increasing
Description: Short article about increased circulation in the Kansas City Public Library and a new circulation system adapting to war rationing.
Date: 1944-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Library - North
Description: Interior view of the first floor of the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library, located at 12th and Oak streets. Library staff and patrons can be seen.
Date: 1961-05-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Exterior view of the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library, located at 12th and Oak streets. A car parked on 12th Street outside of the library's main entrance can be seen.
Date: 1960-05-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Exterior view of the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library, located at 12th and Oak streets. Cars and pedestrians on 12th Street can be seen.
Date: 1960-05-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Library Lobby - South
Description: Interior view of the first floor of the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library, located at 12th and Oak streets. The circulation desk, a portion of the card catalog, and a mosaic on entry floor can be seen.
Date: 1961-05-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Library - East
Description: Interior view of the first floor of the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library, located at 12th and Oak streets. Library staff, patrons, and the card catalog can be seen.
Date: 1961-05-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ozark National Life Building
Description: View looking northwest of the Ozark National Life Building (formerly old Kansas City Public Library building) at 9th and Locust streets. Prior to the Ozark National Life Insurance Company purchasing the building in the mid-1980s, the building also housed U.S. Trade Schools. Several cars parked in the lot east of the building can be seen.
Date: 1991-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ozark National Life Building
Description: View looking north of the Ozark National Life Building (formerly old Kansas City Public Library building) at 9th and Locust streets. Prior to the Ozark National Life Insurance Company purchasing the building in the mid-1980s, the building also housed U.S. Trade Schools. Several cars can be seen parked on the opposite side of 9th Street.
Date: 1991-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library Film Department
Description: Unidentified staff member and user at service desk in the Film Department, located in southwest corner of 3rd floor of the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library at 12th and Oak streets.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library - Film Department
Description: Unidentified staff member working in the Film Department of the Main Branch Library at 12th and Oak streets, located in southwest corner of 3rd floor.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view of the first floor reference desk at the Kansas City Public Library's former 9th and Locust streets location.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library - 9th & Locust
Description: Interior view of the former Kansas City Public Library location at 9th and Locust streets. A figure reading at a table can be seen. Library shelves and cabinets are in view.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view of a library location with children.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Library Branch
Description: View of the West Library Branch at 902 Southwest Boulevard. A truck, van, and a van with a Reyna's sign on the side can be seen parked along Southwest Boulevard. A sign for the Hartman Hardware Store is in view.
Date: 1990
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Greenlease Library and Sedgwick Hall
Description: Photograph of Rockhurst University's Greenlease Library and Segwick Hall, on Troost Avenue between Rockhurst Road and 53rd Street circa 1980.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library - Westport Branch
Description: Photograph of the Westport branch of the Kansas City Public Library, at 118 Westport Road, circa 1980. This branch was the original branch of the Kansas City Public Library system. Then called the Allen Library, it opened in 1898, shortly before Westport was annexed by Kansas City.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library at 4801 Main Street, looking northeast from Main, circa 1980.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, southeast of the intersection of Ward Parkway and Main Street, circa 1980.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3939 Wyandotte Street
Description: Photograph of a house at 3939 Wyandotte Street in the early 1980s. The stone building at the edge of the photograph is the Westport branch of the Kansas City Public Library, which faces Westport Road. Several other houses neighboring of the library had been demolished to allow for library parking.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Shrine - Replica Liberty Bell at the Truman Library
Description: View looking west of the replica Liberty Bell outside of the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.
Date: 1965~
Object Type: Photograph

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