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Title: The Jenkins Family Reunion
Description: Short synopsis of the Jenkins Family reunion held in Kansas City the summer of 2007. Includes a photo of the family group standing in front of the Verona Columns near the former Jenkins home at 6130 Ensley Lane and a photo of the facade of the former Jenkins Music Company building at 1217 Walnut Street.
Date: 2007-10-27
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Sweet Toned Instruments
Description: Photos of Jenkins factory making frames of Harwood guitars and mandolins. Accompanying article relates that until Jenkins began manufacturing good grade mandolins and guitars, all were done in the East. The frames consist of rosewood from South America, mahogany from Central America, spruce from Norway and Sweden, and oak and maple from New York. They turn out 500 mandolins and guitars a month.
Date: 1899-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City's Carnival
Description: Article describes a street fair held by Kansas City's leading retail establishments in a five-block bazaar sponsored by Karnival Krewe. It describes the different companies and details their merchant booths that were set up, providing numerous images.
Date: 1899-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: J. W. Jenkins and Sons
Description: File contains a photo and multiple articles on William Sutherland, "formerly merchandising manager of the piano and organ division of Jenkins Music company here from 1933 to 1958." Native of Arkansas becoming president of the American Music Conference before dying in 1966.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Missouri: Trouble at Home / The Gillespies of Kansas City
Description: Photo and article about the ruckus at the meeting at "the union hall on Kansas City's Main Street" held by Leonard Irving, national representative "of Missouri's Fourth District" and "also president and business agent of Kansas City's Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union (A. F. L.)." Description of the criticism (for "diverting union funds to their own use") and an attack led by one Theodore Baldwin, an African-American janitor who had been custodian at union headquarters and involving knives and men thrown through windows, etc. Also on page 79 a full-page insurance ad with a photo and description of the family of Kenneth Gillespie, general manager of the Jenkins Music Company.
Date: 1949-08-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co.
Description: Advertising card for J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co. with image of a barn swallow perched on a branch. Front lower left corner of card has No. 45. Back of card says: "Ludwig Pianos Are Competing Against the World at the Paris Exhibition 1900. (One of the 2 American Makes Represented.." Address given on back of card:
Kansas City, Mo. No street address is given.
Date: 1900
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: J. W. Jenkins & Son
Description: Advertising card for J. W. Jenkins & Sons showing a girl picking flowers. 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: J. W. Jenkins & Son
Description: Advertising card for J. W. Jenkins & Sons showing a girl holding an umbrella standing under the eves of a building as it stops raining and the sun comes out. 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: 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: Final Note
Description: File contains an article about the end of the Jenkins Music Company, founded in 1878 as J. W. Jenkins & Sons by John Woodward Jenkins, in Kansas City. Description of its history (with other articles in the file as well), becoming the "largest retailer in the world at one point" in musical instrument sales, especially pianos and organs, until bought by the Schmitt Music company and having its name changed in 2000.
Date: 2000-01-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Jenkins Music Company Store Display
Description: Appears to be a view of a window display at the Jenkins Music Company Store featuring the Ted Weems Orchestra. Scene includes various instruments and what appears to be photographs of the band members. Sheet music is also visible at the bottom of the photograph.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Window Display
Description: Street level view of store window featuring an exhibit on Coon-Sanders Nighthawks. Store may be Jenkins Music Store in downtown Kansas City. Exhibit believed to have been prepared by the Kansas City Public Library, October, 1965, after they acquired the Joe Sanders Collection.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Obituary for Betty Peterson Blasco
Description: Blasco, a lyric writer and vocalist, died March 3, 2006. She wrote the words to ''My Happiness.'' It won the Song of the Year Award in 1948 for Cashbox Magazine. It has been recorded by numerous vocalists, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, Connie Francis, Frank Sinatra, etc. Blasco's husband, Louis O. Blasco, who was head of the publishing division of Jenkins Music Company, played with the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks and was known as ''Mr. Music of the Midwest.''
Date: 2006-03-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Will K. Reeme Prohibition Protest
Description: View looking south along the east side of Walnut Street taken from in front of the J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Company Building, once located at 1013-1015 Walnut Street. Prohibition supporter and protester Will K. Reeme can be seen holding a picket sign. The sign reads: The J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Co. Been Unfair to Cause of Virtue-Honesty and Prohibition by Pussey Foot Johnson - Facts to You for Postage - Will K. Reeme, Genl. Del. K.C. Mo. Cars and pedestrians along Walnut Street can be seen the Jaccard Jewelry Store Building can be seen on the left hand side of the image. Reeme's hat and shirt are labeled "Peaceful Picket."
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1909-1938, Page p075
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 20th Street south to W. 22nd Street and from Broadway east to Wyandotte, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1938
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1A, 1939-1949, Page p118
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 21st Street south to W. 22nd Street and from Braoadway east to Wyandotte, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1939/1949
Object Type: Map

Title: 54 Janssen Place
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the single family home at 54 Janssen Place. It was built in 1916-17 for John W. Jenkins, president of the J.W. Jenkins and Sons Music Company, by the architectural firm Shepard, Farrar & Wiser. In 1975, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Janssen Place Historic District and on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1980. Located in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mill Creek Building
Description: Photograph of the Mill Creek Building at 4634 J. C. Nichols Parkway, circa 1982. Jenkins Music Company and Safety Federal Savings are current tenants. Construction began in 1922 and opened in 1923, this building was the first of J. C. Nichols' Country Club Plaza buildings, and was initially called the Suydam Building. At the far right of the image, construction is taking place on the dome and tower of a neighboring building.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 81 with Kansas City Businesses
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards from Kansas City businesses showing:1. Four cats. Card says: "Eyssell's Model Pharmacy. We mew for Eyssell Bros. Ginger Ale. Kansas City. Exposition. 1887. Phoenix Lith. Co. Chicago."2. A pink rose. Card says: "Geo. S. Hipes and Co. Junction Drug Store, 906 Main St."3. An African American man with hat and cane smoking. Caption says: "A New Coon in Town." Card says: "F. M. Williams, Boots and Shoes, 536 Main St., Kansas City, Mo."4. Text only saying: "N. H. Brassfield, Representing J. W. Jenkins and Son, Hallett and Cumston, Decker Bros'. and Weber Pianos, Packard Organs .."."." 615 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.5. Text only saying: "Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway Company. 1889. Pass F. H. Kingsbury. Genl Ticket Agent C. and M. R. R. Until December 31, 1889."6.Two cards for "John G. Pascoe, The Artist Tailor..."" 206 W. Fifth St., Kansas City." One shows an African American woman with a bow and arrow. Caption says: "Saratoga" and lower left corner has number 50. The other shows a portrait of a woman on an artist's palette.7. A man and three horses at a trough. Card says: "J. J. Foster, Harness and Saddlery. And jobber of Turf Goods Specialties. 511 Main Street, Tel. 2028. Kansas City, Mo." 8. A pink rose. Card says: "Kansas City Piano Co., 1106 Main Street."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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