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Title: Main Street
Description: Looking northwest from the east side of Main just north of 11th.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Rothschild's Display Window
Description: Sleeping dog on sidewalk in front of Rothschild's display window, southwest corner of 10th and Main.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 10th Street
Description: View of the intersection of 10th and Main streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes the Rothschild's clothing store on the southwest corner of the intersection. West of it is the Riss building and a portion of the New England National Bank building. A Gateway Sporting Goods store can be seen on the northwest corner. A city bus is also in view.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Rothschild's Department Store Building
Description: View looking southwest of the Rothschild's department store building that once stood at 10th and Main streets. The New England National Bank and Land Bank buildings can be seen on the right-hand side of the image. The buildings that once stood at 1006-1010 Main Street can be seen on the left. Several pedestrians and a streetcar on 10th Street are in view. Signs for Miller Jones Shoes and the Blue Room Grill can be seen.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: World War I Parade
Description: Elevated view looking south along Main Street from 10th Street during a parade following World War I. Crowds along Main and 10th streets can be seen. The Rothschild's Building, the Royal Theater, and the John Taylor Dry Goods Company Building are in view on the right hand side of the image. The Lee Building can be seen on the left hand side.
Date: 1919
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Land Bank Building
Description: Full frontal and side view of the Land Bank Building; located at 15 West 10th Street. Also in view on either side is the New England Bank building and Rothschild's department store. The letterhead and logo for the Metropolitan Bank located in the Land Bank Building is on the back of photograph #14.
Date: 1928~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Map of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Tour and store directory map for the Country Club Plaza shopping center. A note records that the illustration is based on an original 1947 map and revised of January 1967. Significant Plaza buildings, shops and amenities are shown. The reverse side provides a directory of retail and service shops with addresses and telephone exchange numbers. A text description of the Country Club Plaza is also included.
Date: 1967
Object Type: Map

Title: Interview with Davida Singer Pessen
Description: Interview with Davida Singer Pessen about her life and experience working at Kansas City department stores and other clothing retailers. She discusses her start circa 1960 at Klein's and Rothschild's, continuing in retail through moves to Omaha and St. Louis, and returning to the work in Kansas City as a single mother. She recalls working in a various of department stores and boutiques at Metcalf South and The Landing, and moving in to work at multiple locations of the fine clothing store Woolf Brothers. She also discusses issues including price markup, demand differences from one outlet of a store to another, the decline and ultimate closure of the Woolf Brothers company, and her retirement in 2010.
Date: 2011-06-13
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Current Biography Yearbook
Description: Photo and bio of Louis Samuel Rothschild, or Louis Rothschild, "Under Secretary of Commerce" of the federal government with offices and residences in Kansas City and Washington, D. C. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1900 and serving in World War I before starting out with his grandfather's Kansas City clothing store Rothschild & Sons and later supporting President Eisenhower's candidacy and being appointed a federal official by him, with office at the Department of Commerce at 1000 Main Street and residence at 610 West Meyer Boulevard.
Date: 1957
Object Type: Book

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