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Editor, Mike Fannin, explains how the printed newspaper, The Kansas City Star, will be reorganized to adapt to the difficult economic time. The main news section will be combined with the local and…
Date : 2009-04-06
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Review of sculpture show at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Date : 1997-07-03
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Article about the conflict between Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, over the new state of the art railroad "food terminal," with photo.
Date : 1939-12-16
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Article about the history of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers and their unique perspectives offered about Kansas City, with photos and biographical descriptions of several of its prominent…
Date : 1986-01
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Group portrait of newsboys and an adult posing behind stacks of newspapers and in front of a newspaper truck in Chillicothe, Missouri.
Date : 1922-04-28
Collection: Kansas City Star Collection
Topographical map of Kansas City, Missouri, overlaid by street grid. Major streets identified, as well as schools, railways and hospitals.
Date : 1940
Collection: Maps
Street map of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, showing parks, park districts, railroad and street car lines, etc. Inset map of the Midwest shows railroad lines converging on Kansas…
Date : 1894
Collection: Maps
Photostatic copy of map of Missouri and portions of Kansas with counties, county seats, and the Pacific Railroad line.
Date : 1867 to 1868
Collection: Maps
Topographical map of eastern Jackson County, Missouri, including Lee's Summit, Lake Lotawana, Prairie Lee Lake, and Jackson County Lake. Map also depicts schools, churches, cemeteries,…
Date : 1957
Collection: Maps
A portion of Kansas City from W. 24th Street south to W. 25th Street and from Madison Avenue east to W. Pennway, showing buildings, railroads, and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to…
Date : 1939 to 1949
Collection: Sanborn Maps
Map of Cass County showing townships in color. Also shows rivers, roads, sections lines, schools, and railroads.
Date : 1883
Collection: Maps
Head and shoulders portrait of Joe McGuff, Sports Editor for the Kansas City Star.
Date : 1965
Collection: South Central Business Association
Photo and bio of John Barrons, "[a]dvertising manager of the Kansas City Star."
Date : 1899-04-15
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Mention of the "Leavenworth, Pawnee & Western Railway Company," later known as "the Union Pacific Railway," in a description of the sale of Delaware Indians' land in…
Date : 1955-09
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
The collection includes 549 negatives and 318 original prints of images taken in the 1910s focusing on railroads and transportation and rural and urban life. The geographic scope is the Midwest,…
Date : 1910 to 1917
Collection: Local History Index (Citations), Finding Aids
The Union Pacific railroad, the first to enter Kansas City, was opened as far as Lawrence, Kansas, in December, 1864. The next to come was the Missouri Pacific, which was opened for business in…
Date : 1905-03-15
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Review of mixed media show at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Date : 1999-12-16
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Article about the new route of the Kansas City-Fort Scott railroad line, with a map of it.
Date : 1912-09-04
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Review of photography show at the Michael Cross Gallery.
Date : 2001-02
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
File contains information on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, also called the "Katy," and associated with the Katy Trail.
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Review of sculpture show at Downtown Neon and Gallery.
Date : 1998-12-17
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Review of installation at the Fahrenheit gallery and group show at Betty Jean Gallery.
Date : 1998-06-04
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Article profiles artist Alisha Gambino. Her show, Mujeres, runs December 7, 2007 through January 31, 2008 at the Guadalupe Centers. Inc.
Date : 2007-11-30
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes a photo and article, continued on page 8, about "Dr. Schorer," a 54-year…
Date : 1935-04-19
Collection: Future: The Newsweekly for Today