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Title: Gubernatorial Candidates
Description: Photos and descriptions of gubernatorial candidates William Stone (of Missouri), William Warner (of Missouri), and Abraham Smith (of Kansas).
Date: 1892-11-05
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Political Notes: Down from the Penthouse
Description: Photos and article about the election of Tom Hennings over Emery Allison (both pictured) for national senator from Missouri. Description of Allison as Harry Truman's choice for the office as "an Ozark country lawyer," a "56-year-old president pro tem of the Missouri state senate," and "the great & good friend of Jim Pendergast."
Date: 1950-08-14
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Ordinary Citizens Get Het Up over Schools
Description: Article about a public school levy election for the Kansas City School District, with many photos of both sides of the issue in their campaigns.
Date: 1950-04-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Blue Springs Milling Co.
Description: Advertising card for Blue Springs Milling Co. showing a portrait of President Benjamin Harrison. One of four cards with portraits of the candidates for president and vice-president in the 1892 election. Front of card identifies man in portrait and says: "Use Blue Springs Model Flour." Front lower left corner of portrait has number C-9. Back of card says: "These delicious Biscuits are made of Blue Springs Model Flour, manufactured by Blue Springs Milling Co." Address given on back of card:
Branch House,
1930 Grand Avenue,
Kansas City, Mo.
Telephone 2251.
Date: 1892~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Blue Springs Milling Co.
Description: Advertising card for Blue Springs Milling Co. showing a portrait of Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson. One of four cards with portraits of the candidates for president and vice-president in the 1892 election. Front of card identifies man in portrait and says: "Use Blue Springs Model Flour." Front lower left corner of portrait has number C-4. Back of card says: "These delicious Biscuits are made of Blue Springs Model Flour, manufactured by Blue Springs Milling Co." Address given on back of card:
Branch House,
1930 Grand Avenue,
Kansas City, Mo.
Telephone 2251.
Date: 1892~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Blue Springs Milling Co.
Description: Advertising card for Blue Springs Milling Co. showing a portrait of Vice-Presidential candidate Whitelaw Reid (ran on ticket with Benjamin Harrison). One of four cards with portraits of the candidates for president and vice-president in the 1892 election. Front of card identifies man in portrait and says: "Use Blue Springs Model Flour." Front lower left corner of portrait has number C-10. Back of card says: "These delicious Biscuits are made of Blue Springs Model Flour, manufactured by Blue Springs Milling Co." Address given on back of card:
Branch House,
1930 Grand Avenue,
Kansas City, Mo.
Telephone 2251.
Date: 1892~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Blue Springs Milling Co.
Description: Advertising card for Blue Springs Milling Co. showing a portrait of President Grover Cleveland. One of four cards with portraits of the candidates for president and vice-president in the 1892 election. Front of card identifies man in portrait and says: "Use Blue Springs Model Flour." Front lower left corner of portrait has number C-3. Back of card says: "These delicious Biscuits are made of Blue Springs Model Flour, manufactured by Blue Springs Milling Co." Address given on back of card:
Branch House,
1930 Grand Avenue,
Kansas City, Mo.
Telephone 2251.
Date: 1892~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Board of Election Commissioners, Kansas City, MO
Description: Map showing 23 election districts and the city limits of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Map

Title: Editorial Comment: You Can't Fool All of the People...
Description: Article about the drastic disappearance of corruption in the city government between 1940 and 1942, as evidenced in elections, taxes, employment, etc.
Date: 1942-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Politics: Pendergast Trouble
Description: Article about indictments of Kansas City government officials connected with the Pendergast machine for fraudulent procedures in the 1948 election, with supposed ties to President Harry Truman, etc.
Date: 1947-05-19
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City: Reform Stays
Description: Announcement of the defeat of "Pendergast-machine candidate for mayor," Robert K. Ryland, a cohort of Jim Pendergast, in the election in which the "name of Pendergast still stinks."
Date: 1946-04-08
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Thomas J. Pendergast - Nominee for Marshal
Description: Portrait, list of qualifications, and brief biography of Thomas J. Pendergast printed while running for Jackson County marhsal in 1906.
Date: 1906
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Missouri Muddle
Description: Photo and biographical article about Forrest Donnell, the 56-year-old governor-elect of Missouri in 1941. Description of his prevention from taking office office by the Democratic Party and Governor Lloyd Stark, leaving his "65 honorary colonels, one of whom is Henry Bundschu, Kansas City businessman, all dressed up with no place to go in their $122 gold, blue, and red uniforms."
Date: 1941-01-20
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City, Mo.
Description: Article about the presidential, gubernatorial and senatorial elections, focusing on the importance of the votes of Missouri's pivotal "two big cities--Kansas City and St. Louis," discussing Republican and Democratic clashes.
Date: 1952-10-24
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Business, Neighborhood Opposition Defeats Light Rail for Kansas City
Description: Kansas City residents voted overwhelmingly last month to kill a $793 million light rail system in a contentious election that pitted city hall against the major chamber of commerce and some neighborhood leaders. The city-backed plan won just 40% of the vote, passing in most precincts adjacent to the 24-mile proposed route and failing just about everywhere else in the 317-square-mile city.
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Truman in Missouri
Description: Article about the support by Harry Truman by Emery W. Allison, president pro tem of the Missouri State Senate, in his campaign against incumbent Senator Forrest C. Donnell, despite Allison's public obscurity and socially questionable causes such as blocking black people from attending the University of Missouri.
Date: 1950-04-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Youth Goes into Action
Description: Description of the defeat of the Youth Movement led by Fennelly in the election of 1934, involving members being "slugged, kicked, or beaten at the polls."
Date: 1935-02
Object Type: Magazine

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