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Title
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Laura Nelson Kirkwood
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Description
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File contains photos and information on Laura Nelson Kirkwood (1883-1926), or Laura Kirkwood, only daughter and heiress of William Rockhill Nelson and co-manager of the paper after his death in 1915, co-arranging for the razing of her father's mansion and building of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on its former site. Sole owner of the paper in 1921 and originator of the Kansas City Star Magazine on Sundays (stopped after her death in 1926 and revived in 1970 by editor Howard Turtle) and the paper's first photographs and cartoons after 1915, formerly banned by her father.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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The Kansas City Star: The First 100 Years--A Man, a Newspaper and a City
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Description
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Photos and chapter of the book (excerpted from the newspaper) about Laura Nelson Kirkwood (1883-1926), the daughter of Kansas City Star founder William Rockhill Nelson and his wife Ida Nelson. Description of Laura's life and career, a native Kansas Citian marrying Irwin Kirkwood (in 1910) and introducing the Star's first photographs and comic strips (in 1915) and founding the radio station WDAF, as well as arranging for the establishment of the Nelson Art Gallery on the site of the razed Nelson mansion.
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Date
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1980-09-14
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Laura Nelson Kirkwood
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Description
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Newspaper clippings with photos and information on Laura Nelson Kirkwood (1883-1926), daughter of Kansas City Star founder William Rockhill Nelson and owner and manager of the paper after her father's death in 1915.
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Forty Years Ago in the Star
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Description
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Article about the Kansas City Star Building at 11th and Grand Avenues, designed by Henry Van Brunt and opened on April 12, 1894. In continuous use until present Star building completed on January 31, 1911 and purchased by Laura Nelson Kirkwood, a trustee of the W. R. Nelson estate.
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Date
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1965-12-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Rockhill Club
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Description
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View looking east of the Rockhill Club at 4520 Kenwood Avenue. The structure was originally the home of Laura Nelson Kirkwood.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC225 Kansas City Star Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Kansas City Star newspaper company was founded in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel Morss. Nelson and his family went on to retain ownership of the company until their deaths in 1926 when ownership was bought by employees of the newspaper. Local stockholders owned the newspaper until 1977 when it was sold to corporate ownership. This collection, made up of a portion of the company’s records, documents the history of the newspaper and its founding family.
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Date
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1829/2007
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
