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Title: Editorial Announcement
Description: Photo and description of William Allen White, or William White, a newspaper editor and book author of Emporia, Kansas, and a former Kansas Citian.
Date: 1906-10
Object Type: Magazine

Title: William R. Nelson
Description: Photo and caption about William Rockhill Nelson (1841-1915), "the late editor and owner of the Kansas City Star," leaving funds in his will dedicated to the establishment of an art museum.
Date: 1915-05-03
Object Type: Magazine

Title: He Hitched a Star to His Wagon
Description: Biographical article about William Rockhill Nelson, the founder and editor of the Kansas City Star. Includes details about the aftermath of his death and reviewing his career as a prominent Kansas Citian from 1880 to 1915, including an explanation for his reasoning behind not using photographs in the paper on page 1042.
Date: 1915-05-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The '58 Matrix Table Banquet
Description: Photo of Miss Irene Gentry in a group photo of honorees at the Kansas City Alumnae Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, national journalism sorority, at the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Muehlebach.
Date: 1958-03-29
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Sigma Delta Chi Gathering
Description: Gathering of Sigma Delta Chi, now the Society of Professional Journalists, in an unidentified location. Handwritten messages on the image read: Don't Crowd fellas' - we got plenty to go around! K.C. Star Style Books 20 cents.
Date: 1964-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Charles I. Blood
Description: Kansas City Star and Times city-editor and writer Charles I. Blood seated behind his desk. A handwritten message on the image reads: Jan. 19, 1960. To E.B.S. Charles I. Blood.
Date: 1960-01-19
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Testimonial Luncheon to D. Austin Latchaw
Description: Interior view of the testimonial luncheon to D. Austin Latchaw held at the Kansas City Club on January 02, 1939. Names recorded on the front of the photograph are: Standing, left to right - Harry J. Haskell, Earl E. Robertson, C.G. Wellington, W.A. Cochel, Silvey J. Ray, David B. Park, John M. Collins, G. Day Smith, Frank C. Nutter, James S. Jackson, John W. Lee. Seated, left to right - D. Austin Latchaw, John T. Barrons, S.W. Heyward, Charles I. Blood, E.B. Garnett, Roy A. Roberts, Earl McCollum, Chad H. Thompson, Arthur F. Wahlsedt, Albert L. King, Harry Van Brunt, D.L. Hartley, Robert W. Reed, W.B. Moorhead.
Date: 1939-01-02
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Randall Jessee
Description: Randall Jessee (left) with Jay Barrington, a sportscaster at WDAF-TV in the 1950s, before a WDAF microphone.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Transition - Died
Description: One paragraph of obituary for Henry Haskell, "78, editor of The Kansas City Star since 1928; dying in Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 20," and winning two Pulitzer Prizes during his 54 years with the staff.
Date: 1952-09-01
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Lena Rivers Smith: The Lady and the Legacy
Description: Profile chronicling the life and journalism career of Lena Rivers Smith. Smith's early life and education are covered. Her time working for the Kansas City Call newspaper and WDAF-TV, where she was the first African American to work for the station's news staff, is also described.
Date: 1978-11
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Kansas Stories
Description: Portrait and biographical article about William Allen White, or William White, a journalist, author, and poet of Kansas and formerly Kansas City. Native of El Dorado, Kansas starting out in Kansas newspapers before becoming an editor for the Kansas City Journal and Kansas City Star in the early 1890s.
Date: 1897-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Western Journalism
Description: Portraits and descriptions of Morrison Munford and Robert Van Horn in an article about western journalism in 1888. Description of Kansas City journalists and newspapers, including Munford as editor of the Kansas City Times (arriving here in 1871 from Tennessee) and Van Horn as editor of the Kansas City Journal (arriving here in the 1850s). Also a general description of the cultures of Kansas City and Saint Louis (former home of Joseph Pulitzer), etc.
Date: 1888-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: Interior view, which incudes Lucile Bluford in the center, Kansas City Library Board member Olivia Dorsey on the left and Stacy Daniels on the right. Includes bust of Miss Bluford behind the women. Taken at the Bluford branch of the Kansas City Public Library.
Date: 1995-04-08
Object Type: Photograph

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