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Title
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The Kansas City Centennial
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Description
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Photos (including J. F. Richards), illustrations, and history of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company founded by John Richards (1834-1922) in Leavenworth in 1857 before being moved to Kansas City in 1875.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of John Richards, founder of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company of Kansas City, born in Virginia in 1834.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Description
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Biographical sketch of John Francisco Richards, or John Richards, "head of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company," "vice-president of the First National Bank of Kansas City," and co-organizer of "the municipal ownership of the water works." Born in Virginia in 1834 and moving to Sibley, Missouri in 1850 before coming to Kansas City in 1887 as a hardware merchant.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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History of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Portrait and biographical sketch of John Richards, founder of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company and a former western Indian trader. Born in Virginia in 1834 and moving to Missouri in 1836 before becoming a storekeeper in Sibley, Missouri in 1849 and coming to Kansas City in 1875 with his hardware business at 424 Delaware Street (moved to 5th and Wyandotte Streets).
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Date
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1888
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Who's Who in Kansas City
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Description
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Portraits and biographical article about John Richards, "president [of the] Richards & Conover Hardware Company." Born in Virginia in 1834 and moving to Sibley, Missouri in 1849 before becoming a western trader to the Rocky Mountains in 1852 and coming to Kansas City in 1875.
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Date
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1921-07-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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John Richards, Harware Store Merchant
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Description
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Photo and bio of John Richards, early "hardware merchant" in Kansas City. Born in Virginia in 1834 and moving to Missouri in the early 1850s as a hardware store employee (at Sibley and Saint Louis) before starting his own hardware company in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1857 and moving it to Kansas City in 1875 at 5th and Delaware Streets.
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Date
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1901
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Richards Field, First Kansas City Commercial Airport
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Description
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Photos and history of the first Richards Field, established in 1922 as Kansas City's first commercial airport by Major Howard Wehrle, Fred Harvey, Simpson Yeomans, Roger Crittenden, and Robert Lester, and named for Lieutenant John Richards II, a fellow Kansas Citian pilot killed in World War I. Description of the airport's becoming obsolete for "modern" airplanes of the late 1920s and being replaced by an airport in 1927 closer to downtown Kansas City, "first known as New Richards Field and then Municipal Airport," and later as Downtown Airport.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
