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Title: Ladd School Classroom
Description: Interior view of a classroom at Sanford B. Ladd Elementary school. Includes unidentified students watching classmates churn butter.
Date: 1940-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing child carrying a candle. Caption says: "Who's There!" Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. W. Jenkins & Son
Description: Advertising card for J. W. Jenkins & Sons showing a girl dragging a large basket of apples down a hill. Front of card says: "Story & Clark Organ Co. Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago. For Sale By J. W. Jenkins & Son. Popular Prices! Decker Bros., Vose & Sons, Mathushek Pianos." Back of card has a small image of a factory and says: "Fall of 1890, Chicago, Ill. You are hereby respectfully invited to call at the Model Organ Factory of the World, corner Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago, at your early convenience and inspect same throughout, upon presentation of this card. We are to-day the largest exclusive reed organ manufacturers in the World..." Yours respectfully, Story & Clark Organ Co. / R. S. V. P." Address given on front of card:
615 Main St.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a girl and her doll covered in ink after knocking over the ink on a lap desk. Caption says: "The Accident." One of a set of three cards telling a story with this girl. Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a child sitting in a rocking chair with a doll near a lap desk. Caption says: "Rock A Bye Baby." One of a set of three cards telling a story with this girl. Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing girl standing on armchair holding a feathered hat. Caption says: "Young America." Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co.
Description: Folded advertising card for J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co. that unfolds to show an illustrated version of "Jack and Jill." When folded, the card looks like a crocodile leather wallet which says: "As there is interest for the reader of the jingles of childhood within, there is also profit for those who take advantage of our suggestions there." As you open the card, it says: "Our store is a great exposition of all that's newest and best in pianos, musical instruments and musical merchandise..."" When fully open, the inside of the card has the Jack and Jill rhyme accompanied by images of a girl and boy walking up a hill, then falling down the hill, then being patched up by a woman. At the bottom it says: "Copyrighted 1898 by Niagara Lith. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." Address is given on outside of card:
921-923 Main Street.
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1898
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Two Young Boys
Description: Unidentified boys standing on the porch of an unidentified building.
Date: 1924-08-14
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Children Boarding a Bus
Description: Children boarding a bus at 15th and Campbell streets. The photograph was used as part of the Street Car Conduct project of the Junior Officer Council.
Date: 1946
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Children at Fairyland Park
Description: Exterior group portrait of children eating "cones" at Fairyland Park.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Children at Fairyland Park
Description: Group portrait of unidentified children eating "cones" at JP picnic; located at 75th and Prospect.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Robert Esterley on Horseback
Description: Exterior portrait of Robert Esterley, son of a blacksmith, on horseback in front of the Allen Library (later the Westport Branch of the Kansas City Public Library).
Date: 1908
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Long Bros.
Description: Advertising card for Long Bros., agents for Borden Selleck & Co., showing three children trying to weigh a pig on a scale. Front of card says: ?ǣHowe Scale.?ǥ Front lower right corner says: "Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, N. Y." Back of card says: "Borden Selleck & Co./ Managers Western Warehouses.
Chicago, 97 & 101 Lake St.
Cleveland, 157 Water St.
St. Louis, 612 N. Thrid St.
Agents, Long Bros., Kansas City, Mo.." No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing three children in a boat. One of four cards with similar design. Back of card has advertising copy, lists six locations in Cincinnati, and says: "150 branch Stores in the United States." No Kansas City address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Peet Bros. Mfg. Co.
Description: Advertising card for Peet Bros. Mfg. Co. showing two boys riding in a sulky or small carriage being pulled by a girl. Back of card has a poem about "Peet's Water Queen" soap and says: "Our New Plant. Number Employees, 250. Number Salesmen, 30. Factory over 130,295 square feet of Floor Space. Capacity, 40,000,000 lbs. Laundry Soap per year. Capacity, 2,000,000 pounds Toilet. Capacity, 1,300,000 pounds Glycerine. Canned Lyes ad libitum .."." Peet Bros. Mfg. Co." No address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Bernheimers
Description: Advertising card for Bernheimers showing a boy and a girl sitting in a blue, high-heeled shoe. The girl holds a doll and a parasol; the boy holds reins and a whip as if the shoe is a horse. Front lower left corner has number C-675. Back of card says: "A continuous show of shoes for men. A special for the week. The best shoes for the price in the city. Either black or tan color, and with heavy double soles. Fit and wear equal to any $5.00 shoe. Our Price is $3.50. This is a shoe made for winter wear." Address given on back of card:
12th & Main Sts.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Teacher and Children - Santa Claus Lesson
Description: View of an unidentified teacher leading a group of unidentified children in a lesson about Santa Claus at an unidentified school. A Christmas tree and other decorations can be seen in the background.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Children At Playground
Description: Children atop and near wagon at an unidentified playground.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Sewing Machine Co.
Description: Advertising card for the Kansas City Sewing Machine Co. showing a young girl holding up some cherries. Front lower right corner of card says: "Niagara Lith. Co. Buffalo, N.Y." Back of card has image of sewing machine table and says: "The Standard Rotary Shuttle Sewing Machine. Two Machines in One. Lock Stitch and Chain Stitch. The Best and Fastest Sewing Machine in the World. For Sale By.."" followed by an incomplete stamp with address: "Kansas City Sewing Machine Co., Wholesale Sewing Machine Supplies,
12th and Walnut
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: K. C. Milling Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The Kansas City Milling Co. showing three children making their way through tall grass past three large white eggs. Card is embossed. Back of card says: "The Flour of the Family. Imperial. A Kansas City Product, made by The K. C. Milling Co." No address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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