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Title: DJ Won Listeners' Love
Description: The "Tribute" column features Mark Foster, former Kansas City radio personality who died January 9, 2007.
Date: 2007-01-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Two Legendary Radio Voices go Silent at WDAF
Description: Article discusses changes at WDAF-FM. The station is dropping Paul Harvey commentaries and disc jockey David Lawrence is retiring. The changes are seen as part of a general move away from talk to more music that began when the station moved from AM to FM. Article also discusses Lawrence's life and career.
Date: 2006-09-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Early Local Radio
Description: On January 15, 1922, Kansas Citians scurried about to find crude little contrivances of copper wire wound around a cylinder, a chunk of crystal, and a wire hair 'finder,' to which they attached headphones to listen to the first broadcast from the Kansas City Star; after experimentation, a powerful transmitter was installed, and on June 5 of that year, WDAF entered the field of regular broadcasting; 'regular' meaning three nights a week. Early programs consisted of jazz music, classical renditions, the Star Gazer, and later the epochal Night Hawk Frolic.
Date: 1940-02-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: WDAF-AM Radio
Description: Actually the call letters WDAF and the operation of the station by The Star itself began the night of June 5, 1922. The programs that were sent out earlier that year were relayed over the 50-watt station, 9-XAB, of the Western Radio Company of Kansas City, through a cooperative arrangement with The Star.
Date: 1940-02-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Government Will Now Seek Decree in Star Trust Case
Description: Article about the Supreme Court case against the Kansas City Star for controlling media in the city too rigidly, requiring them to "dispose of radio station WDAF and television station WDAF-TV."
Date: 1957-06-22
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: West from BMA
Description: View facing west, taken from the BMA Tower, located at 700 W. 31st Street. An industrial area, a portion of the Westside neighborhood, and the WDAF tower can be seen.
Date: 1964-06-18
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bill Leeds
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Bill Leeds, news man associated with WDAF-TV and Radio.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: WDAF Radio Drawing
Description: Crowd surrounding unidentified drawing being broadcast over WDAF radio.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star Building
Description: Postcard of the Kansas City Star Building at 18th Street and Grand Avenue.
Date: 1924
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Ernie Mehl
Description: Publicity photograph of Mehl in front of WDAF microphone.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Star
Description: View looking north on Grand Avenue. The Kansas City Star newspaper building is in view in the center, located at 18th and Grand just south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. There are vehicles in view on Grand Avenue and the WDAF radio towers are visible on top of the Star building.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: WDAF Station Building
Description: Exterior, partial view of the WDAF broadcasting building entrance, located on Signal Hill, at the northwest corner of 31st Street and Southwest Trafficway. Also has the owner's name, The Kansas City Star, on the front. Processing date on photograph: May, 1955.
Date: 1955-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: WDAF Kansas City Radio Station
Description: Employees of the radio station including Harry Darby (4th from the right) and Bill Leeds (right).
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1A, 1939-1957, Page p158
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 30th Street south to W. 31st Street and from Madison Avenue east to Pennsylvania Avenue, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1939/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Radio Simple to Make
Description: Newspaper article and diagrams illustrating how to make a homemade radio listening device. The instructions were published in the wake of the Kansas City Star's first radio concert, in preparation for an upcoming concert the following week.
Date: 1922-02-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: WDAF Tomorrow Night
Description: Article announcing the official debut of the Kansas City Star's radio station, WDAF. Regularly scheduled radio programming in Kansas City began with the opening of WDAF, an event the Star hoped would "mark an epoch in radio in the West".
Date: 1922-06-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: P42 WDAF Radio Studio Photographs Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains three oversize photographs of the WDAF Radio Studio from the 1920s and 1940s-1950s. The station began broadcasting on June 2, 1922, from the basement of the old Kansas City Star Building at 18th and Grand.
Date: 1920/1950
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Star's Towers Go
Description: Article reports the removal of two large radio towers from the roof of the Kansas City Star building at 18th and Grand. The towers, which were removed due to the need for steel during World War II, had been fixtures on the downtown skyline since 1924.
Date: 1942-09-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC225 Kansas City Star Collection Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1829/2007
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: The Big Band Almanac
Description: History of the Coon-Sanders Band, also known as the Kansas City Nighthawks, formed in 1919 with their first broadcasting over the radio in 1921. Subject of "doubtless the first radio fan club. ..the 'Nighthawk Club,'" on early WDAF radio programming.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Book

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